VETERAN Special
AS anyone who has offered a horse for loan lately will tell you, there are vast numbers of people out there who want a horse but don’t have the funds to buy one.
Loaning can be a great solution in tough financial times, though there’s often a catch. Loan horses are generally either so adored by their owners that they “could never sell him” – and may want them back at some point; or they literally cannot be easily sold, because of chronic health or behavioural issues, or advancing age. Yet if you look hard, are good at managing a horse’s needs and have a smattering of luck, there are some really smart older horses out there for loan who could give you many years of fun.
Selling an old friend often feels wrong to an adoring owner, but so too does retiring them just because there is no
