Would it be unfair on the horse...

[Cash]

...to buy the horse, move it to a new yard, and then potentially move it again not long after??
I have been 'in between ' horses since March now, and the horse I have been riding since summer as a sort-of loan from a friend has been lame the past five weeks..so I'm currently hacking out a very green ex racer once a week, just to keep us both from going mad!- not ideal, but still riding, which i am very grateful for!- but i really don't want to be doing this all winter.
I am desperate for my own horse again, and am aware that with the holidays coming up this would be the best time to get a new horse, so i would have time to get to know it etc, without it being dark all the time.

I am basically waiting for a spot at the local livery yard to open up. We decided it was stupid to be looking for horses until we knew there was a space at yard to put it. It could be a few weeks until there's a space, or it could be months.
There is however a space at a yard about twenty minutes away, which has lovely facilities etc..and a space..my friend (who i respect very much, and who has advised me very well in the past) said i should just get a horse (obviously if i find the right one!), move it to the further away yard for the time being, but then move it once a space comes up in the local yard. There's not really a realistic option o keeping it at the further away yard permanently- I need to be able to get there by myself in general, which is near impossible as it's kind of remote, though Mum said she wouldn't mind driving me for a bit.
Am i right in thinking it's unfair to move a horse twice, possible in a short period of time? Surely it would already be unsettled enough having to leave an old home and owner? Or am i being soft? I know it depends on individuals though, and some are better at moves than others...but i wouldn't know until i'd done it, if that makes sense. Should I just bide my time, be less impatient and wait for a space at the local, even if it is months?

Sorry, long

 

[quirky]

Right, if I'm reading this right, you're hoping for a local place to come up and then find a horse to stable there.

Have the stables agreed to hold a stable for you if one comes free? It could take weeks, even months to find a suitable horse. Would you be paying to hold the stable? That's money you could be spending on a better horse or a vetting.

I would look for a suitable horse and put it where there is space available. If this means moving in quick succession, so be it. As long as the horse is fed, watered and cared for, I'm sure it'll be fine

 

[Ranyhyn]

I had Ed in Dec, moved him to an ok yard, then in Feb I moved him to my preferred yard. Ed is not one for change but he coped fine, in some cases it may even be easier..

 

[soulfull]

find horse then if you need to put it at yard 2 then move him/her to yard 1 when space. Horses adapt and so do we!
I have done this myself and all was fine

 

[Pearlsasinger]

Many years ago, we bought an Appaloosa mare who was perfect when tried but an absolute nightmare for the first 6 weeks that we had her.

She lived at a livery yard equi-distant from my and my sister's houses which we found did not work for us as well as we had expected. We moved her to a yard nearer to my sister's house and she was much better (we kept her for 25 years and she was never as good again as the day I tried her).

It was as though because we had moved her with us, she knew that she belonged to us.

Several years later we moved her onto a fiend's farm with her 3 companions while we waited for the purchase of our shared smallholding to go through and then moved them again about 3 months later. They all coped well with those moves.
In your position I would start looking for a horse and put it at yard 2 if you need to for a while.