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Location: California | Have any of the mothers on here let someone take and run their horse while they were pregnant? I'm trying to get a game plan for next year when my husband and I will hopefully be expecting our own little bundle of joy...and the barrel racer in me is worried about my horse just sitting. She has sat a good part of this year and I am now working on getting her back into shape so I can run this fall/winter/spring.
If you did let someone run your horse, what were the conditions of it? Did they give you a percentage of winnings? Did they assume care for the horse while they had it (shoeing, feed, etc)? Did you just haul your horse to races so they could make a run, and then you took it back home?
Part of me is curious as to what someone else could accomplish on my mare so I am seriously considering doing this.
Edited by GoBuddyGo 2014-10-03 10:59 AM
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | I didn't, but I had reasons not to both times. If the situations had been different, I might have done so. |
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Location: Texas! | I have been doing this for a friend that is pregnant to keep her horses legged up and tuning on a couple while she is pregnant. The way we have it set up is she keeps her horses at her place so she can have them with her and be in charge of their care still and we usually haul together to jackpots, if I bring my horse along I split fuel with her. Owner pays the fees and winnings are split 50/50 after fees are paid back. You could also consider a lease if you had someone who wanted to do that and needed a horse to run.
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Location: California | WYOracer - 2014-10-03 9:05 AM I have been doing this for a friend that is pregnant to keep her horses legged up and tuning on a couple while she is pregnant. The way we have it set up is she keeps her horses at her place so she can have them with her and be in charge of their care still and we usually haul together to jackpots, if I bring my horse along I split fuel with her. Owner pays the fees and winnings are split 50/50 after fees are paid back. You could also consider a lease if you had someone who wanted to do that and needed a horse to run.
Are you riding her horses during the week to exercise them? I am hoping that I can create a situation that when I'm ready to ride after pregnancy, that my horse will be in shape and ready for me.
I am open to hearing different experiences with this whether it worked out or not! I don't want to go into this blindly. |
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Location: Texas! | Yes I ride during the week to keep them in shape and work on anything we think they need tuned on. Just pays monthly for that. |
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| Nope. I just let the horse sit and relax till I was ready to ride again. My horse was seasoned and a little older, so I was able to leg her up and run without any schooling. If it was a young horse, I probably would let someone keep them legged up. |
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| Nope as someone said I had an older horse and the time off did wonders for him and we both came back fat and sassy and got back into shape together. I would be afraid to let anyone take my good horse but me, and I was crazy with hormones during that time so it probably would not have worked out with my head spinning around - would have scared the horse and jockey
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Question for the MOMS on here- Did you let someone run your horse while you were pregnant?