when do you decide it is time to move on from your current horse

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Hi all, i am questioning at the moment whether it is time to get a new horse. My current boy is 17 and i have reached his competitive limits, yet i want to progress further. It has been suggested to me by various instructors in the past 4 years that a new horse would allow me to carry on progressing more. But my horse enjoys his work and i do love competing him! Whilst my boy does have a home for life with me, currently i may have to find a loaner, or find someone to part loan him due to university commitments to enable me to afford another horse. Then i panick over all the horror stories people have from loaning a horse out, particularly as my tb is quirky!

Has anyone else been in a similar situation? and how have you decided what to do??
 
Can you loan him from where you are now so you can keep an eye, or if your away at uni people you know and trust can keep an eye on things?
Its difficult isnt it but i guess you have to make the choice as to which bit is most important too you? Riding him but being less ambitious or following your dreams competing and getting another horse.
 
You also need to weigh up that with your uni commitments if you actually have the time to bring on another horse up to the levels you want to compete.

Whilst you are so busy, would it not be preferable to keep your current boy and compete at the current levels that you both enjoy?
 
Slightly different but I advertised for a sharer for my quirky tb a few years ago, once I’d sifted though the ‘I haven’t ridden for 20 years/I’m a bit nervous/Do you mind if my kids ride him’ emails, I an email from a lady, she’d moved to the UK leaving her TB’s at home, couldn’t afford to own a horse but loved a project.

She rode him better than I did! It was excellent, she fitted in well at the yard and I just left her to it so she had a horse to treat as her own.
 
i start uni in september and i am going to hartpury! so plenty of opportunity to compete and train down there, which is making the decision more difficult! i am completely torn! I would be happy loaning him out to people who would have fun with him and provide me with regular updates, then i would be much more relaxed about him not staying on a current yard. I don't really know whether there is much demand for horses to loan at the moment!?
 
so you recceived a lot of interest dizzle? he is my horse of a life time and i know he would bring so much pleasure to someone, just as he brings to me, because he is a cracking little horse!
 
hes quite quirky, im not sure whether he would be suitable, and you hear a lot of horror stories of horses being loaned to colleges, but i suppose it is worth an investigation!
 
Could you carry on competing him but also make it known that you're looking to move up the ranks if anyone has a talented horse needing a jockey? Might not cost you anything if you're lucky
 
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