Riderless Horses and Horseless Riders--matchmaking service!

[PNWHorseGirl]

Horseless Rider/Law Student in Charlottesville, VA

Hello all! I am currently a second-year law student at UVA, and am looking for a way to get back into riding while in school. Competed in the A-circuit up through the Big Eq, rode at Washington & Lee, and worked on a ranch in Wyoming. I’m comfortable riding almost anything, and am looking for any barns or individuals in the general Charlottesville/central VA area that may be in need of a volunteer to exercise horses and do other matters of care taking. Being from out of state, I’m relatively unfamiliar with the Charlottesville barns and would very much appreciate any recommendations or leads for someone who wishes to volunteer while in school. Also, I’m about 5’8 and thinner/athletic build. Thanks!

[IPEsq]

PNW, I think The Barracks is where UVa’s team is based–might be a good to start there and ask around.

[Cluck]

Riderless Dressage Horse for half lease Peoria IL

Super GRP mare needs exercise riding/training/showing. 14 hh, nicely trained, no vices. Big bodied, current professional trainer is 5’7". Horse is for sale but not likely to go now before next year. PM for more details.

[To_the_MAX]

Horseless Rider - Souderton PA

Hi all! Haven’t been around much lately but I have been a member for quite a while here. My husband and I recently bought our first home and I had to send my boy out on lease. He’s with a good friend but not anywhere nearby so I can’t pop in and see him. I realllly miss riding and can’t really swing regular lessons at this point. Wondering if there’s anyone in my area that has a horse I can pop on 1 or 2x a week? I have been riding for almost 20 years, huntseat equitation. I have experience jumping up to 3’ and plenty of experience with green horses and OTTBs. I was captain of my IHSA team and rode every type of horse imaginable during my 4 years there. If you have something that might need a few extra rides please let me know! I’m not regularly on the boards anymore so email would be the best way to get in touch with me - kristielswift@gmail.com.

Thanks!

[music6249]

any chance your still looking for a rider

Are you by chance still looking to have someone ride your horses?where are you located if so…QUOTE=shellyinpa;5566328]Located in Lumberton NJ we have 2 horses, one is a standardbred who came from racing, studding and amish road horse, he is very calm and will ride all day long, he is a sweet gelding now and needs a exercise now and then, you should have your own tack as we only have one saddle but if you want to ride alone you can use it, its a 17in western. we also have a paint/qh/tb cross mare around 7 she is a darling in your pocket black with a wide blaze. she will go out alone you can ride her english or western. you can bring your own tack or use ours, the horses just stand around most the time…please consider coming to visit you can email me oneguess1@msn.com or fb me rochel worden lots of pix on fb[/QUOTE]

[bcarols]

horesless rider moving to Madison WI in summer 2015

Looking ahead into summer/Fall 2015, I will be moving to Madison, WI to continue my graduate education and I am looking for an opportunity to ride (I am a horseless rider!). I have been riding for over ten years and recently have been exercising PRE and Lusitanos at a small breeding farm. I ride classical dressage and recreational trails but I have also ridden and showed hunter jumpers. I also have experience working with “backyard-gone show” horses, OTTB, and “naughty school ponies”. In addition to exercising horses I teach riding lessons and would be willing to teach in exchange for the opportunity to ride. I have references and would be able to visit several times over the months leading up to my move.
Looking for a place that is like a family, I will be setting down roots in the area for the foreseeable future and purchasing a horse of my own in a few years.

[flashwhitelock]

Riderless Horse-New Haven CT area (Bethany)

College daughter’s horse: 17.2 Imported Irish Sport Horse. Sound, former jumper, dressage, field hunter and school horse for contribution towards board.

Good: He is awesome and can do 1st level with some 2nd level dressage.
He can still do 4 foot courses with a good rider. Smaller courses with inexperienced riders.
He can school prelim cross country courses.
He’ll teach you how it should feel.
He has an amazing fun personality.

He’s been an IHSA horse for 2 colleges and he’s done the pony club A for the jumping portion and will be doing the full A next summer. He has a metronome for a trot with incredible suspension. His canter is huge with fabulous walk/canter transitions. Very easy going, quiet.

Soundness is not an issue.

Was good hunting and was used for intermediate riders.

THE BAD:
He has a history. VERY, VERY Bad case of separation anxiety. He can be ridden in a ring with gate closed but only good riders can ride him if the gate is open and not expect bulging, distraction or worse. So rule is, only in enclosed area if alone with gate closed. You don’t even walk between indoor and outdoor on him, you get off and lead him. You can expect him to do a look/slight shy in one corner of the outdoor ring where a dog came at him in the past. It happens usually the first time someone rides him and then disappears once he trusts them. We suggest that he get ridden in the indoor until the person is comfortable with him and knows him.

He was not taught to do flying lead changes so they aren’t there for the jumping courses. At 16, there is a limit to how much we can re-train. This is one we are working on.

He knows he is a big boy and having been a school horse, he will test everyone. Once he knows you are a steel fist in a velvet glove he behaves but you can NEVER, EVER let down your guard. He knows you can’t force him because he is bigger. He knows every school horse trick in the book. 99% of the time nothing will happen but there is the possibility always there. On the other hand, he’s also very tolerant because he did so many up down lessons but in a controlled environment.

You can’t hack alone unless you expect problems. With a group, he will follow the lead of the other horse, good or bad. He is afraid of a group of motorcycles coming up behind him. He was used to stop other out of control horses out hunting by running them into his behind. So it’s a really funny quirky what bothers him. It honestly is whatever he hasn’t seen before. As far as we know thats only bicycles, motorcycles and lots of heavy traffic. Not afraid of golf carts and ATV’s because he’s seen those.

So far, the kids who have ridden him have loved him but they will all tell you that you have to be on your toes working with him on the ground. He’ll try every head in the air, move when you’re trying to mount trick that he can. He’ll pretend that slow is the only speed until you say otherwise. He gets in a gear and wants to stay there.

He’s in Bethany CT in a small low key private casual barn that has an indoor but no lesson program near Yale. It is on a trail system, if someone wants to get the trail pass. Very few people around during the day at any time. If you want to jump, another person has to be there on the ground. The barn owner has to like you since it is a private barn.

I have a truck and trailer (once they replace the alisson transmission) and would be happy to have him go places BUT he has to stay in a closed trailer and be tacked up inside the trailer or have a ground person who is very experienced. Even the, we always put on a bridle before he comes off the trailer.

I’m happy to have anyone try him to see if it would be a good fit but he is quirky and talented. PM if you think you might want to try him.

[Shahrazade]

Riderless Horses - Golden, CO - 12 yo OTTB and 12 yo green Arabian

Check the giveaways forum for a lengthy post on riderless 15.3hh 12yo OTTB - great on the flat, green over fences, rusty (hasn’t been ridden in six months since I moved away) but can get a trainer tune-up if I know someone is going to start riding him consistently - I am looking ultimately for someone who will lease him, show him, and help with costs (paying board for an excellent riding facility on a horse in a different state from me that I’m never going to ride is not the most fun!) but in the interim, if someone approved by my trainer will ride him regularly, I would be open to that with the understanding that if someone who can lease him appears, he is available. You will need to take lessons on him with my trainer until she is comfortable turning you loose - she is his “other mom” and has final say on if the match is a fit or not.

I also have a green Arabian mare, gently started under saddle at 10 by me. She goes bridleless or in a snaffle but only walk/trot and light trail work so far. She is 14.1 and requires a light, experienced rider (a teenager with Arabian experience would be fine, or does great with women especially). Easy to handle, loving, good ground manners, started the right way, has never been ill-treated, but was neglected for several years with a large breeding operation, so her training is way behind. A teenager has been brushing and lungeing her, but until I get around to bringing her out to CA where I am, she could use a rider who wants a project.

Again, my trainer’s word goes - although much greener, the Arab is actually a lot easier to match with a rider, because she is not such an intense athlete as my TB. She would be fine for an experienced teen doing a 4H project on starting a horse. (She’s started, but has maybe 40 rides total if that.) Even the grumpy vet loves her.

[aregard]

Horseless Rider, Bay Area California

Hi everybody.

I’m an adult ammy “of a certain age”. Had my own barn in Southern Cal that I gave up when I moved north, and took a 5 year hiatus from riding. Then I got a wild hair to hunt in Ireland (November! Coming soon!) and have been taking 2, then 3, then 5 lessons a week to condition for that.

When I get back (Mid November), I have to decide if I keep riding, or turn into pudding once again. If I was a good match for someone who wanted their horse ridden 1-2X a week or so, maybe that would be the best outcome?

I’ve had approx 30 years of experience keeping horses as well as riding, ran my local pony club (so I do safety stuff their way, usually), and have competed in low level eventing and some dressage, as well as running the hunter/jumper schooling shows. I’m not a big competitor – don’t need that anymore. Might be happy just doing trails, though I’ve been taking lessons over fences and it would be lovely to keep jumping.

Once I’m done nannying my grandbaby (which should be sometime next summer) I could also work around the barn in exchange for rides. But for now my weekdays are spent with the small person. (Right now, to prep for Ireland, I take a couple afternoons off a week, which could continue for the right situation, if mid-week rides helped more).

I live in San Jose, work in San Francisco. Ride in Fremont and Woodside, currently, so I’m open to a match most anywhere in the bay area.

[JULSCARVER]

Horseless in Southern Vermont

I have ridden dressage for many years; mostly on schoolmasters who were donated because the couldn’t take a heavy performance schedule due to minor lameness issues.
I have ridden to 4th level.
A horse sent to barn where I ride would get fantastic individualized care. We are a small dressage barn. My instructor has ridden to I-2, earning a medal on one of the schoolmasters.
So anyone looking to give a horse at the end of his career a very soft landing, this would be an excellent place.
Can contact me @ 802-442-2059.
Thank you for your consideration.
Julie Carver

[CameronMasters]

Horseless Rider in OK Panhandle

I’m a 20 year old college student on my university’s IHSA team looking to get more practice than just with the team. I’ve ridden mostly green-broke Arabians (one stallion, two geldings, and four mares) but since moving to the panhandle I’ve only been riding the two school QH geldings twice a week. I’m willing to ride anything I can swing a leg over and can do barn work in exchange for time in the saddle.

[suz]

HORSELESS in HOUSTON

Avid trail rider and mucker will be in Houston for several weeks to months and looking for some horse/barn time.

[grayci]

Looking for Rider - Pinellas Florida

Rider needed in Pinellas, Florida!

My horse is F.A.T. and I only get the chance to ride a couple times a week, so putting feelers out for a rider in exchange for some stall cleaning and feed set up!

She is a 14 y.o. 15H black Draft/Morgan cross. Huge bone, short back, and very wide even when not fat, so fine for a taller/heavier rider. I haven’t gotten to do a lot with her other than just ride since getting her several months ago, though I’m working with a trainer once a week to remind her of what she knows. She rides Western (neck reining is iffy) and English, and also drives. Girl who owned her before me did it all and showed jumper and then did a little barrel racing, but mostly she’s been a trail horse the last 5 years (both riding on trails and driving in the mountains). No bad habits other than gate-balking and a bit of barn sourness, no buck/rear that I have experienced. Hops right up into a trailer. She is strong though, so needs an intermediate rider (though my beginner son rides her in the round pen with no issues and does almost all of her handling on the ground. She loves kids!).

Place she’s boarded has a huge arena, round pen, dressage ring, and jump field. No indoor, sadly. Very casual, family-friendly place that holds little schooling shows every month. There are trails nearby that encompass show grounds where larger (but still schooling level) shows are held. The trainer I work with is there almost every day so I’m sure lessons could be arranged if your timing is better than mine!

I have an 18" Jumping/AP adjustable-gullet saddle which you would be free to use. This was after months of searching something to fit her shape, but if you have your own saddle you’re also free to try that!

Any days but Friday and one other day (we’d set up a share schedule) is fine for riding!

Send me a PM if this sounds interesting to you!

[TuckawayFarmVT]

I’m not sure if you are open to taking one on a free lease? We have a very nice welsh/ warmblood cross just over 14 hands and big bodied. She is doing small courses and is well mannered and lovely. We are looking for someone experienced enough to further her schooling with lead changes. We are flexible about time frames, potential showing etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbwFCfPV6rI

[TuckawayFarmVT]

Riderless Large Pony for Off Farm

Fancy large welsh/ warmblood looking for a rider to further her schooling. Must go somewhere with good training and preferably showing potential. Currently doing 2’3" courses but needs changes confirmed. Very easy going, safe, sound and a lovely temperament. Flexible options, please respond if interested.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbwFCfPV6rI

[mmaxted]

Horseless Rider - Marquette, MI (North Central UP)

This may be a long shot…
I am a 23 year-old transplant to Marquette and I sadly had to leave my personal horse at home. I’m really just looking for time in the saddle, and am willing to ride just about anything (trouble horses seem to gravitate toward me). I’m on a limited budget (aren’t we all), so I’m willing to negotiate working in exchange for ride time. I ride primarily English, but my Montana roots gave me a solid western background as well. I have evented up to training level, schooled some prelim, and was a C2 Pony Clubber. Its been about 4 years since I’ve ridden seriously and I miss it so much! If anybody can point me to a reputable rider/instructor/stable it would be greatly appreciated!

[casey555]

Where are you located ??

[cllane1]

Riderless Horse near San Antonio, TX

With daylight savings time just around the corner, my riding time is about to be limited to weekends only. I have a 6 y.o. WB cross gelding that I would love to have someone help me keep in work 2-3 days during the week. Has been schooling on the flat all summer but is a great jumper. Has done schooling dressage, h/j, and event derbies.

Small set of jumps, poles, and cavaletti available for use on-site. Small, private barn, large dressage arena with wide lanes on all sides, hacking available in front field. Would have to check with barn owner, but bringing in an outside trainer shouldn’t be a problem. Showing opportunities possible.

Looking for a solid intermediate or above rider that can keep the good parts tuned up and recognize and possibly improve the parts that need work.

Located in Helotes/Leon Springs area, just outside of San Antonio. PM me for more info, pics, video.

[justpeg]

Horseless, north of Pittsburgh, PA

Experienced adult rider seeking riding time this winter.

I am available to ride 2-3 mornings a week. I am an experienced rider between horses. I have ridden & shown both hunt seat and dressage for many years.

I am open to a partial-lease situation, tho my budget is limited.
Thank you.

[brey872]

Horseless rider in Atlanta, GA

I am an intermediate adult rider located in Atlanta, GA looking for more time in the saddle. I am available to ride three times a week at any time, flatwork, over jumps or just hacking out! I also have some cross-country experience. If you have any horses in this area that are underworked, let me know! I’m happy to muck, feed, etc. while I’m there too.