pre-assessments
for the
equine purchaser
Welcome to Try a Horse
The equestrian world’s ‘Little Black Book’, established to streamline horse purchasing across all disciplines. Try a Horse unites buyers with independent accredited equestrian professionals nationwide, for initial suitability assessments. Designed to achieve responsible, sustainable, welfare orientated and professionally selected partnerships with longevity between horse and rider, a concept supported by vets.
How to use Try a Horse
Find it. Try it. Buy it.
Find it
Scroll the web for potential equine purchases on any equestrian sales site.
Create your free Try a Horse account LOGIN to edit your personal shortlist.
Enter the postcode of your potential new horse to find a local professional rider.
Try it
Make the sustainable, efficient decision to deploy a local impartial professional to try before you travel.
Try a Horse’s network of accredited professional riders and instructors are positioned throughout the UK, facilitating introductions and enabling purchasers to send riders, for an industry leading initial assessment and suitability check, providing invaluable feedback. Try a Horse rely on Rate my Rider feedback.
Buy it
Once you have ascertained the suitability of the horse, Try a Horse recommend a personal visit and will facilitate a pre-purchase veterinary examination using our nationwide network of equine vets.
ABOUT
Finding Your Perfect Horse Professionally
Nick Gauntlett, Fellow of the British Horse Society and British Eventing Master Coach and International Event Rider.
“Try a Horse has identified one of the many difficulties that people face when searching for their next equine partner. I regularly look at videos shown to me by existing clients and fellow Pony Club parents of horses that they have been to try, often on the other side of the country. This website could save hours of people’s time, not to mention saving the sellers and their horses being put through many fruitless trials by people unaccustomed to assessing horses.”
Alice Fox-Pitt
“As a former professional rider and now a Mum of keen girls, I’m always trying to find the safest and most competitive ponies; with a busy life it’s challenging to travel the length and breadth of the country to source them. It’s a really exciting concept that Try a Horse will now narrow my list, saving us time looking for the most fun ponies for my kids.”
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