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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They're too big??? Please. I live amongst giant 2 ton trucks in an equestrian paradise. Some people even have horse trucks with the fronts of semi trucks, and regular families drive Excursions. And they are NOT environmentally friendly and spew black smoke out of smoke stacks on top. Get real![/quote]

Meh. I ride. And the previous owner of my Saab station wagon (since gone to Saab heaven) used it to tow their horse. You don't need Excursion bomb cars even in equestrian paradise, in fact that's embarrassing.[/quote]

I also used to ride, and trailer.

Had a aluminum 2-axle Equi single stall trailer with tack nook up front, for my a draft-cross gelding. He was maybe 1,100lbs

So trailer was ~2,800, 1100 of horse, and probably ~300-400 lbs of tack gear, feed, hay, water, misc stuff …. So figure ~4,500 lbs total.

That a single stall lightweight aluminum trailer, just about the lightest set up you can get for trailering a horse.

That’s wayyyyyyyyyy over the tow rating for a Saab. In fact it weighs about 1,000 lbs more than the car itself, which makes it crazy dangerous unstable.

You need a minimum of a half-ton pick up or full-size SUV (Tahoe, Suburban, Expedition, Wagoneer, Sequoia, ect) to tow even a single stall safely. You’d be insane to tow a horse trailer with a Saab wagon. And it’s irresponsible to risk the safety of your horse like that, too.

If this even happened at all and you’re not just some anti-SUV/truck troll. 
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Well the people who sold me the Saab (because it wasn't stick shift was his reason) said they towed a horse in a trailer. Maybe it was a pony, it was his daughter's. But still. You can believe it or not.[/quote]

You tried to imply that you were familiar with the equestrian lifestyle, and that you were around other horse people who all thought it was “embarrassing” to use full size pick ups to tow horse trailers with. That was definitely the vibe of your post.

Then you got called out by at least two posters who DO actually ride and trailer their horses, and know who can’t tow a horse trailer with a little Saab station wagon, and say you need a BIG truck, and now you’re backpedaling.

Go away. [/quote]

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