Honestly, it depends on the horse's temperment. If he looks healthy, i.e. bright and alert, hydrated, coordinated. You probably don't even have to give him any time off. I know I've hauled horses 16+ hours to shows and got on them that same day of arrival and worked them hard, shown them, stuck them back on the trailer and back to work the next day no problem. So, if you really are tempted to jump on and see what he's like - it would probably be just fine. Also, if you haven't

Mag Chloride holds in moisture and if you use the de-icer version of it (available at places like Home Depot) your arena won't freeze in the winter! You do have to use a lot of mag and water well after, but it will pull any moisture from the air into the footing and stays put fairly well - hard rains will wash it out of outdoors after a couple years if it's not maintained, but it works great while it lasts. The best way to deal with the rocks really is to roll the arena and have it packed

I know - my horse was appraised at $45K last year. I just sold him for $5,500! Nobody's looking at anything above $10K now and are haggling everything. I had to sell, so I was stuck between a rock and a hard place. But I was also able to pick up a young redhead for pretty inexpensive...

Have you had any contact with the seller yet? If not, just email and see what they were thinking as far as price. I always have horses for sale, and I recently sold some as best offer - I got offers from $50 to $900+ per horse. It really just depended on the person's situation and I understood where every offer was coming from. This isn't a science report or debate, so you don't have to include references in your offer. It is good that you did your homework however and have an idea of

Glad I'm not the only one... Best of luck selling your guy - I hope only the best match is made!

I'm trying to sell my horse. He's a mid-teen WB that has been there and done that. He is a wonderful soul and has had many many miles put on him. I listed him everywhere that I could think of, and had a lot of people interested. The thing is I think they may not believe how good he is. I had 10 people make appointments to come see him, all but one cancelled. The one group that made it was completely rude about how they went about coming to see him, they called as they were "on their

cbmarie - the trailer ended up laying on the side that is the passenger side of the truck/trailer (it had rolled several times). So the slants were weighted towards closed, but were easy enough to get open and fastened up. The ties were up and the one horse (first slant) was standing on what was the side wall, the other was down. I would look at the type of door that closes the trailer personally. If it relies on the both hinges needing to be fully open in order to get horses out, stay away! If it

I have been in the truck that flipped a slant trailer off of the freeway at 65 MPH (black ice under water, semi passed creating movement, jacknifed, flipped trailer, truck's back bumper went through roof of trailer as it laid on it's side). We had two horses in slants tied. The ONLY problem we had with the horses was the one horse was tied with a "natural horsemanship rope" (you know the hollow kind) and it did a Chinese fingertrap type of action and we had to cut it off. They got

Well, here's my 2 cents worth... I am a HUGE fan of LMF. I believe that LMF and Triple Crown are probably the best two feeds available mainstream. Unless your baby is being worked hard, she doesn't need the performance. I use performance for my horses that are being worked hard every day that can't keep their condition as well on Development (basically I don't want to feed pounds and pounds and pounds, I want minimum grain with maximum effect). Development is a great feed that horses