Would you let anyone ride your horse when you are not there?

Yes. But only people I know and trust and who can ride. They even get competed by other people, not just me, and I am not necessarily around (even though I try as often as possible).
My job won't allow me to be there all the time and the only way to keep the neds fit, healthy and going out is by finding a dedicated bunch of people with the same attitude and ideals to help :)
I guess I am extremely lucky though to have found such people!
 
No, I also don't when I am there either.

Mostly because he is neurotic and doesn't like change, he also isn't straightforward to jump or hack alone.

There are a couple of people at my yard I would possibly allow to but I would have to be there.

I am probably neurotic and over protective but he's my horse & I've done a lot of work with him since I took him on. I'm not saying I am the only one who can ride him but I rather it was just me. Just my personal opinion though!
 
I have come up against this dilemma recently as I am leaving for a 5 week vacation in 10 days time and was in two minds wether to ask someone to ride my horses while I am away to maintain some kind of fitness or wether to let them have their own holiday during that time. I'm still somewhat on the fence to be honest as I have someone who would jump at the chance but think I'm going to decide to let them enjoy a break as I just don't feel comfortable leaving them to be ridden and not being there to control the situation.

I have no problem with other people handling either of them, they have always been on full livery. But the problem is I've had both of them from tiny tots and have put in years and years worth of hard work for them to be the way they are and the thought of someone else making a mistake or somehow "messing them up" makes me feel ill!

I think it maybe depends on your horse though. Both my horses are very sensitive and one is only four and at an important stage in her education. I think I maybe wouldn't be so cautious if they were more sensible and established as there perhaps wouldn't be so much potential for disaster haha! I sound so dramatic but I'm very protective of my horses, they mean the world to me!
 
Yes and no. :redface3:

Yes to my instructor. Also while he has been with her while I've been away I said that her staff could ride him under her supervision. He's 6, impressionable and essentially on schooling livery so the way he is schooled is important. I have someone hack him out but she rides with me while I'm on one of our ponies. It's not that I don't think someone else can control him, but I spend a lot of time and effort (not to mention money) schooling him to go the way I want him to, so would prefer to keep things consistent.
 
If I had seen and trusted their riding, yes.

Tbh, I wouldn't let someone ride my horse if I wasn't happy to let them ride it when I wasn't there... Just because I'm stood there, it doesn't mean they'll be a decent rider.
 
Depends on their riding ability and whether he likes them! He's been known to take instant dislikes to people and bronc as they're getting on, or if he decides he doesn't like them whilst riding he just tanks off and jumps out the school after dropping a shoulder pretending he's about to turn. He's fine with me, is a slug for my sister and just decides trotting is hard so he better walk and was fine with 1 lad that's now given up riding. And he was ok, but sometimes took the mick with the lad that used to ride him for me. So only if I know how he is with them! Was quite awkward when he bronced my english teacher off when I was doing my a levels!
 
Nope. But then the only people who ride Kal are me, Zoe (the woman who has been schooling and competing him) and (only twice) our trainer. He isn't a fan of different people on his back . . . gets stressed and worried. Z has been riding Kal since last July and I can count on one hand the number of times I haven't been there (obviously don't go with her when she hacks but I am on the yard when they leave/get back).

Precious? Moi? ;)

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