@hut-ho78 thanks for sharing!! I am with you - I have to try them several times because I make long term committments; I’m not a horse trader by any stretch.
I do think it would be fun to go to a barn full of sales horses and spend all day trialing them!! What a hoot! 
Charlie McDaniel Wild Sunday Farm in San Antonio. He is amazing and kind and it’s one awesome horse after the other. It’s like being queen for a day. He takes you out in a golf cart and has riders show you the horse then after he evaluates your riding on a reliable horse which may be a sale horse then you get on the sale horse. He is safe. It is unforgettable. It is what horse buying should be!
One trainer sending a horse on trial with another trainer is more common in the hj industry, less so private seller to private buyer.
The only time in recent years I let a horse go on trial, the horse was going to a buyer who boarded and trained with a relatively locally well-known trainer at a nice facility. I had a certified check in hand, I had proof that the horse was insured for the duration of the trial, and they had a vetting already scheduled. They were also within 30 minutes. Horse “sold” before the trial was over, as soon as he was vetted. It worked this time, but I would still be hesitant to do a trial except under very specific circumstances.
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