Swapping my horse for someone elses (a TB), has anyone done this before?

Question

I am thinking of swapping my 16hh clydie x who is a little too big and young (5yr old) for me to handle for a 14.3 TB who is 3 years older and has competed successfully.

Has anyone had experience with horse swapping?

While I dont really want to get into the competing side of things and just want a horse to take out on trail rides and trail riding groups do you think that a TB would be too flighty for this sort of thing? I would only have time to ride once a week.. And I am not super confident but I thought if the horse has been competiing and winning that it would be pretty well educated.

I would love some advice and peoples opinion of what an 8yr old TB would be like. (I know they would all be diff, but just in general)

Thanks

Answer 1

No, but make sure you swap papers and everything like that. you could even to up a "contract" basically saying that you xx swap your xx horse for xx horse which is x*x. and that you both surrender ownership etc. just so that you are both covered.and both sign in front of a witness.  

Answer 2

If you can only trail ride once a week I wouldn not get a TB. Get a QH or Appy or Paint. They are better for trails and you can ride English or Western.

Answer 3

I swapped my horse with this religous cult and i found out later that they ate it.....people are wierd. have u tried giving your horse some kind of drug to make it dopey?...ketomine is good...horses are easier to handle when they are half awake

Answer 4

Throughbreds are hot-blooded horses. Your clyde cross, is probably cold blooded, or warm blooded. In my opinion, I would sell your horse, and then buy an older horse. I'm worried that the throughbred is going to be too strong, or just not calm enough for trail riding. Only being able to ride once a week, will make the horse extra energetic. And that could spell disaster :(

Answer 5

I swapped my horse to my lil sister beca her horse was to big and she wasn't strong enough. for my bombproof teen youth world barrel finalist horse who is totally finished and amazing. My sisters baby is 8 but for 3 yrs after she was trained she sat only being riden ocasinally until we bought her. it was extremely hard for me to get use to it at first even with my parents and my riding instrutor saying that once the mar gets use to barrel racing it will get better than  my old horse. I keep thinking when is that going to be what i'm trying to say is this swap is going to be hard for the other rider also. The baby is an 8 yr old half TB and half QH she is amzing and would be much better if she had completed riding up until we got her I also had an 8 yr old full thourbred that we rescued that was on of the best horses i have ever ridden even though he was off the track he was well behaved and all I had to ride him was a halter and a lead so he handled well the swap is going to be hard but maybe when your horse get better you can swap back!!!!

Answer 6

Swapping isn't bad. I swap my 7 yr old barrel mare for a 13 yr old Head horse. We wrote up a bill of sale and we sign both. We just put that we were trading horse for horse "as is" and put the owner name and horse name next to each other. I don't know about the TB being a good trail horse since you only want to ride once a week on the trails. I would look for a QH or paint much older like a 10 yr old or older that you can trust that doesn't need much ridding during the week.

Answer 7

i think the horse may be a little hot for you. Not because it is a TB but because the horse competes so it is probably used to a steady work load to prepare for horse shows. The sudden decrease in riding will probably make the horse hot and unenjoyable for you. I think if you were looking for a horse to ride everyday and show you would be making out like a bandit in this swap but i don't think this is the horse for you.

I would look for an adult trail horse that is used to just sitting around and has be desynsitized to everything on the trail