Well Have seen another yard. What doyou think?

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Came accross it byaccident. About the same distance as current yard , in short too far really. Facilities reasonable, not brilliant. No winter turnout BOO but good summer. No idea of the costs except lessons are £25 (for EVERYONE). The upside??? YO/instructor a brilliant instructor dressage). Nice man. Real name dropper though. Carl (as in Hester) thinks etc.Has 12 year old daughter who may show my ponyfor me which I wouldreally enjoy. A similar setup (albeit rather closer to home) worked well for me once.
 
Hmm I would put winter turnout as one of my top priorities, our yard has unlimited turnout, most of them live out, I wouldnt be happy knowing my horses couldnt go out and get filthy in winter!
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Afterall if i dont have dry mud getting in my eyes while grooming, I wont have anything to whinge about!
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what about school, any jumping courses, how many horses etc, what kind of feel do you get from the yard?
 
and if YO's daughter gets well into working with your horse, tot he extent that you feel you are missing out, and wants to do things differently to you? Bit of a double edged sword, that one
 
Sorry but I would not care a hoot for a name dropping instructor...would prefer my horse to have winter turn out and sanity to be honest!
 
So you would be going to a yard which charges £25 for a lesson instead of the £20 a lesson you are paying at the moment
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.......but that's okay because everyone is paying the same price
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. I really don't get that mentality sorry.

Anyway that's by the by, I wouldn't ever consider keeping a horse at a yard where there is no winter turnout I'm afraid.

Just out of interest, what facilities are at this yard? Are they better than the other one? And what is the cost difference for livery?
 
If memory serves me correctly, I think you're quite a nervous rider? Depending on how no turnout would affect Callum, you may find you have an excitable horse to ride. He'd need riding every day too surely to give him some time out of the stable. Puts a lot of pressure on you to ride over winter.

Personally, and I know it's easy for me to say as I keep my horses at home on my own farm, but I wouldn't be interested in a yard that offered no winter turnout. Notwithstanding the fact I don't think it's fair on horses (just my opinion), your livery charges would increase...more bedding, more hay etc being used and you'd need to skip out at least twice a day.

This sounds like a step in the wrong direction, not an improvement. There are always children about who would enjoy showing Callum for you, whatever yard you're at.

At your current yard, I'd personally not like him to be used for lessons in a school, unless the riders were far more experienced than I was.
 
I think by having no winter turnout, the work load and expensive could double. Its nice to be able to have a rest in the winter from riding if you wish and if he is stabled a lot of your spare time will be taken by exercising him.

I personally dont think its that good to keep them stabled 24/7 apart from them getting grumpy and fizzy I dont think it does their joints much good and disgestive system.

If its the lessons that are appealing to you and the net work of support on the yard, perhaps staying there in summer would be ideal and moving to another for the winter period where it would be cheaper and easier. You could always continue your lessons in the winter if you have transport.

A lot of people have summer and seperate winter places so that it can work in with their horses and life styles, perhaps this could be a workable opition for you.
 
I would not normally consider anywhere that did not offer all year round turnout, its ONLY that this guy is a good instructor and I find getting one is so hard. The £20 for a lesson isn't really the issue. There is more to it than that.
 
If there is a good instructor there (plus competing daughter) how often will you get to use the one school anyway? Also echo the "no winter turnout - no good" views.
 
Could you not ask the better instructor to come you your yard to teach you? Or perhaps you could trailer to his yard and have lessons there? Then you wouldn't be giving up your turnout and you would still have people exercising Callum on the days you can't.
 
Have just had stressful move from yard that suddenly didn't offer winter turnout to one that has unlimited. Would never consider keeping a horse stuck in a stable for months on end, totally unfair on the horse and puts untold pressure on you to get them out. Turnout number one priority on my list of requirements at any yard no matter how good the instructor.
 
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