Trailer Advice (Using single breast bar)

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Hi all, hoping for some advice.. we have a 16.1 5 year old mare. We want to buy and trailer. We hired an Ifor Williams 505 and felt she was a little squashed length and width ways. So were considering using a single breast/breaching bar option on a 506 to give her space to stand diagonally. However she is young and took a little while to settle in the trailer and a bit fidgety generally and we are worried she will be swinging her back end around too much with no central partition to keep her steady and stop her weaving around.
My question really is what experience people have of travelling with no partition? Does it make the trailer less steady?
Other option was a 403 where she'd get more width but not quite as much! But I worry about it tipping.
Or a 511 and just travelling her one side.
Hoping someone can help!
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Every horse I've tried travelling without the partition and a single breast bar has preffered it. The trailer stability is fine, and I think horses need to learn to stand up rather than lean, and the extra space lets them do just that.
 
They generally don’t move once they’re in position. The width of a 403 and 506 isn’t that much when you look at them together. I have a 403 and have/would never worry about it tipping, I think that’s quite an old fashioned phenomenon about the single trailers.
 
She managed to rock the trailer when we first loaded her but then I think she was just a bit freaked out as she's used to a 3.5ton.
 
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Mine doesn't swing around with single breast bar. He tends to stand diagonally and position his bum in the corner. I do set off very slowly to give him a heads up that we're moving and to position accordingly, but once in motion he stays put.
 
ZoeH said:
She managed to rock the trailer when we first loaded her but then I think she was just a bit freaked out as she's used to a 3.5ton.
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If she's used to a 3.5 ton, does that mean she's used to travelling rear facing? And so maybe just the change to front facing has unsettled her?
 
I have an equitrek and travel them full width (I have the partition next to the wall). Both of mine travel really well without fidgeting, my 13.2 is AWFUL in a 505 (she sounds like she falls over as soon as the handbrake comes off!), better in a 510 but not great but even better rear facing, she doesn't even break a sweat and happily loads, we did a long journey on a warm morning with a gazillion roundabouts and I didn't hear a peep from her, she wasn't even warm.
 
O have always travelled without a portion. I don't cross tie but probably would with a youngster. They usually stand themselves diagonally. I can't even feel mine in the trailer, one is 17.1 and one is 16.2!
 
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