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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do not get your own horse or get into competing. Vet bills and entry fees and travel will be a huge money suck.

Just let her take weekly lessons on the horses there. If she wants to lease, let her much stalls and do other barn work to pay for it. [/quote]

*muck* stalls, I meant.

Also: making her do barn work is a good way to weed out the dilettante rider from the Horse Girl. Horse Girls will do whatever it takes to be around horses. Dilettantes just like the trappings of riding and like to do it when it’s convenient. Make it less convenient for her and you’ll see if she really NEEDS to ride.

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I grew up in the countryside and this is how my sister contributed to the costs associated with her hobby, along with competing only in 4-H rather than more expensive options.

But I'm wondering if that's an option in 2021. Do they let tweens/teens muck stalls, or have they outsourced all of that to a contractor? It strikes me that the availability of cheap labor + concern about lawsuits might make that less of an option than in the past. [/quote]

This isn't a past/present thing, it's a rural vs city thing. Sure, if you live out in the country and you have a farm, you can keep a horse relatively cheaply. If you have to board it somewhere remotely close to your urban/suburban home, then you can't offset that cost by mucking stalls. Not because you're a tween, but because that's not highly paid work. [/quote]

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