Any advice is a helpful
I have been offered a pony to buy that is 22year old we currently loan her at the mo for our 5 year old, but i don't know what to do can anyone offer us any advise on what we should do. The pony is bomb proof and we have loaned her since August if we buy her we can't get full health cover because of her age. We have been told be strangers that our daughter has got a flare for riding so don't want to take riding off her. We don't know if to keep on the loan, buy or start new somewhere else as the stable we are at are closing down can anyone out there give me any advise please .

If it were me, and you can carry on the loan at another yard, I would do that, unless you know you can afford vet bills
If your daughter has a growing spurt in 2 years time she may outgrow him
Being an owner is a whole different ball game, and if she loses interest or changes direction you will become an elderly ponys mum, and he wont have a job in life. As a loan, if you give him up, he could go on to be very happy with another young child starting out on that wonderful adventure!

good luck whatever you decide

jessegee

I would ask if you could continue the loan eleswhere first, if not then I would consider buying the pony, real bombproof ponies are worth their weight in gold. There is no certainty that the pony will require vetinary intervention (other than the usual jabs), but keep an emergancy medical fund just in case. Good luck whatever you decide. I bought an aged bombproof ex-riding school pony for my daughter many years ago, best £150 I ever spent.