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| Do you or anyone you know pay to have someone ride and condition a horse. Not a colt's first rides, but anything after 60 rides with no major problems. I want make a little extra cash. I have the time, knowlege, and facilities. But I have no idea how to advertise, or go about doing something like that. Is that a thing?  Paying someone to get your horse into shape for you, I'd also be willing to tune up a horse that has sat for a while. I guess I've never ridden other people's horses, just my own projects, I don't want to get myself into a bad situation though. | |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Not around here, everydody that I know does their own riding and tuning. | |
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Location: Canada | The problem with exercising other horses is that you often get people who are not willing to spend the money on trainers so they send you the problem horses.
The flip side is a lot of people advertising for riding other horses have no business riding other people's horses and are just looking for free leases.
If you are going to do it make a good video showing what your horses know how to do and do well. Collect,extend, sidepass, leg yield, spin etc. Showcase that you know what you're doing and that you can correctly exercise other horses.
Set your prices clearly and also carry insurance. You could be riding a horse and a freak accident could end their career so you want to be covered in the event something goes wrong. Videoing your ride each time is a good way to back up proof that you are working the horse, how much the horse has improved, and in the event something goes sideways you can show what actually happened.
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| I sent a friend of mine a finished gelding (very nice horse) to leg up. I paid for feed, and she worked him 6 days a week in some capacity. (Round pen, riding, ponying horses from him, etc) I supplied the feed and hay, she got $500 a month. She did a great job and treated him like her own. He came home ready to be tuned up and go run some races.
If you're going to do something like this, and expect to get people's good stuff, you need to be very upfront about your expectations of the horse they send, what you will and won't ride, etc. You also need to be very clear that you will be feeding their horse extra, and free choice hay, to make sure that it adds muscle and doesn't lose condition.
People absolutely need to get into the mind set of, "I will send your animal home looking like a rock star. I will send your animal home looking like a rock star. I will send your animal home looking like a rock star." (This is not directed negatively at you personally by any means, but at anyone that wants to take responsibility for someone's investment and get paid money for it.) There's no better business card than a horse going home looking amazing and a happy client. It's a lot of extra work and paying attention to make sure this happens, but it will make or break a trainer or conditioning/rehab business. | |
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Location: Idaho | After following my hopes and dreams of riding horses professionally (decided it wasn't what I wanted to do for the long haul after all), I did locally where I used to live. But everybody knew me and I worked hard to get a good reputation, and a lot of people would throw me on their horses. But it didn't come easy, the horse community was not all that big out there.
I now live in Oklahoma and I assume people do their own riding and training out here. But if you wanted to do it, I would suggest doing a year round playday or gymkhana, or somewhere where are there are beginners and people that may need help with their horses. You need to prove (not saying you haven't) to people you can get ride anything (within reason) and ride them well. There was a time that people would see me, that I was always on a different horse and a lot of time I'd get better times on their horses than their owners did. lol But I wouldn't expect to get on those higher end horses right away, because a lot of people won't send their good horses for someone to keep legged up.. they'd do it themselves.
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