The Amateurs Guide to Buying A Horse

Now available as a private podcast. 🎙️

You’re thinking about buying a horse. Let’s make sure you know what comes next. 

The Amateur’s Guide to Buying a Horse gives you the foundation you need to understand how the horse-buying process actually works, before you find yourself in the middle of it.

Created specifically for first-time buyers and horse girls in their comeback era, this guide fills in all those gaps between “I want a horse” and actually bringing one home.

What You’re Getting:

✔️ The Amateur’s Guide to Buying a Horse, available as a private audio guide

✔️ A clear understanding of the buying process, from deciding whether to lease or buy through horse shopping, trials, the PPE and the final transaction

✔️ An honest look at the time and financial commitment of horse ownership, including the ongoing expenses that are easy to underestimate

✔️ Guidance on who you need in your corner, what each professional brings to the process, and where their experience matters most

✔️ Straightforward explanations of things like vet checks, insurance, maintenance, commissions, contracts and documentation, without assuming you already know how any of it works

✔️ Practical resources to help you ask better questions, do your own research and make decisions based on your particular circumstances

✔️ Perspective from an adult amateur who came back to horses, bought one herself, got caught off guard by a few things and learned plenty along the way

This isn’t a guide to finding the right horse.

This guide is about making sure you understand the process you’re stepping into.

So when your coach starts talking about trials and commissions, your vet starts explaining PPE findings, someone asks about insurance, or you're trying to figure out what this horse will actually cost you, you're not hearing it all for the first time.

You know enough to follow the conversation.

You know what questions to ask.

And you understand the decisions that are yours to make.

Because buying a horse is a big deal.

It’s a significant investment of your money, your time and, very quickly, your heart.

Knowing more about the process doesn't take away any of the magic. It lets you enjoy it with a whole lot more confidence.

Think of this as what I’d tell you over coffee if you sat down beside me and said:

“I’m thinking about buying a horse.”

And now, you can listen while you're on your way to the barn, walking the dog, or doing whatever it is you do while you dream about a horse of your own.