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Comment by vickie lawson on March 12, 2010 at 3:28am

whoa!! when i last boarded in ontario i paid $250 a month plus extra for instructions!! here in nz, indoor arenas are rare, and outdoor ones cost $1000's. local instructors run $70 and up for 45 min. often people take from people from england or germany or leonie bramell a canadian living in germany and their lessons are like $250 each. 'grazing' which is the horse outside in a pasture can run to $50 or more a week if there's an outside arena. if the horse is stabled it's like $350- 500 a month. i can keep mine at home, we built a stable as we're off the tasman and get howling winds and torrential rain in winter. seldom do temperatures go to zero C, but we have huge wardrobes of covers.

Comment by Cindy Jeffery on March 11, 2010 at 5:53pm

It's very interesting to hear how everyone deals with their own place in the "sun". Here in Northwest B.C. we have similar issues to north Ontario, although this year has been mild. Mostly at this moment we are dealing with thick ice on top of 2 feet of snow and a howling wind with a dusting of snow now and then. No indoor and my outdoor has snow and ice. The best I can do is ride on the road in front of our place. So like Linda I look longingly at the fields and the horses and try and will this wihite stuff away. Sometimes I think about moving to the Okanagan or the Caribou or even the Mainland and wonder how the horses would like it. But then I remember that new places have a whole new set of things to get used to and do I want to do that. Anyway, there is a private indoor arena 10 mins from my place and they charge $50 a month just to ride in the arena, boarding there and training is something else completely. There is an indoor at the local fairgrounds but you must be a member of the local saddle club to use it. Boarding fees here range from free to $350 a month, they are all over the place which makes it hard for someone who is boarding horses to make ends meet. At my place we charge by the day at $10 a day that includes me feeding and cleaning stalls or pens, providing water, salt and hay, exercising is extra at $25 hr. That is my rate for instructing and training at my place. If I am called out it is $35 hr. plus mileage. We also have cabins and tenting if the owner wishes to stay with their horses and that is extra too.

Comment by April Keays on March 11, 2010 at 1:15pm

$190.00!? Wow. I'm on the West Coast of BC and am paying $250.00 for full board at a back yard barn and I feel that I am getting off easy. Most boards around here range between $500.00 to $800.00 per month.
You folks farther east, I can understand your snow issues and am very glad that I don't live there (I don't like being cold!), but it isn't so much the rain that prevents us from riding, but the mud! I don't have an indoor ring either so trying to prepare for the upcoming show season is a challange. The trails are ridable on the most part, but still when it's windy and cold and pouring rain, beleive me it's no fun. And your horse probably wouldn't enjoy it either. I guess we all have our issues.

Comment by Jennifer Lamm on March 11, 2010 at 12:01pm

the summers here when there are fires, or temperatures over a hundred for days on end do me in... so I have to play all spring, winter and fall...

Comment by Jennifer Lamm on March 11, 2010 at 11:43am

I pay my trainer $665 a month..... he rides my Oliver for me 4 days a week..... I do all the groundwork and manners work with him and my elder horse Toby I work myself..... that comes out to about $65 an hour I think.....

Comment by Linda White on March 11, 2010 at 11:32am

We might not have mudslides here in Ontario, but the way the snow piles up, even in winters like this last one, you are prevented from riding outdoors even in a ring until most of the snow disappears. We do not have an indoor arena and each day I look longingly at our 200 acres with the lanes drifted in, the fields a mixture of snow and ice, and I curse living here. Give me coastal B.C. - I can ride in the rain and would be happy to do so. Mind you, I'd never be able to afford land there, so it will never happen. Next time around I'm picking rich parents!

Comment by Shirley on March 11, 2010 at 11:16am

Just for a more rounded out view of horsey costs in the US. I am in Michigan.

The riding instructors I am familiar with charge between $20 and $80 per hour. Only one person I know of charges $20. Two charges $35. if you come to them or $40-$50 if they come to you (extra for mileage). Another charges $45 and $50. One does Pilates and riding combo training at $60 and the most I've heard of is $80. I only know the costs of one trainer and he is very good. He has trained to the nationals champion level. He was charging $800 and may have recently gone a little higher for full board and training. He rides each horse between 4 & 5 days per week.He trains many horses that are shown and do well in point shows. I'm not interested in showing but many of my friends do show and they have additional costs of transfers to and from the shows, and extra practice sessions and then another charge if they ride your horse in the classes.The local boarding facilities with stall, Hay & grain, pasture turnout and indoor arenas start at $190. I know of a couple others that are under $250 and then up to $475. All are nice barns ....some fancier then others.

Comment by Jan Jollymour on March 11, 2010 at 9:52am

I live in the beautiful southern interior of British Columbia, and we too have had a very mild winter. This morning, however, it's blowing snow and howling wind, and I have a client coming for a lessons and a videotaping session for the Sea to Sea para competition. It may be an exciting morning!

Remember that Ontario seldom has mudslides and earthquakes...

Comment by Jeanette on March 11, 2010 at 8:35am

Yes I also live in the suburbs of Toronto and have our horses a little north of us how nice it would be to live where our horses are.....but then I think of the Winter and this year has been an easy one to get through. My sister-in-law recently moved to OC California, thoughts came into my head uuuuummmm wonder if the horses would like it there. If only Winter was a little milder Canada would be perfect lol

Comment by Dawn Lambert on March 11, 2010 at 8:34am

Is that fulltime Training Board of $2500 per month? Woah! I feel my coaching of $520/month (no board) is expensive. Worth every penny, but I feel quite indulgent to partake in 2 lessons per week. Totally different league, but I am always surprised at the difference in costs between all things horsey in Canada and US.

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