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yeah serious... (it's a expencive country i live in)

there's a stable near me they pay 7-800$ THAT is ALOT, but then you almost don't need to bee at the stable at all, there are people doing everything for you there, the only thing you need to do is pay.
they have around 50 horses there... rich people with expensive competitionhorses mostly, but its also a riding school where you can learn to ride with good instructers and stuff, but you have to pay around 28$ an hour.
(average price in norway is 16$)

I know a place where I can pay around 160$ a month (thats the cheapest place around here) but the lady who owns the place only acccepts icelandic horses from a certain stud 10 hours driving away from here, and she decides how you are riding you're horse (without shoes and with a bitlessbridle)
so that is not an option.
another place who is cheaper is a little farm who has cows, and 2 horse boxes (they are taken), he may build some new ones if there's any interest from people, the people boarding there now pays 240$ but the one I talked to said he may raise the price to 320$ a month.
If there's good conditions there, I may move to that farm, it's closer to where I live, but i'm not sure yet.

i have to pay $45 an hour, it used to be $35, but oh well.

Well, it's not a normal horse boarding place with stables and stuff, the horses is outdoors 24-7, exept the school horses which are in some boxes when they are in between classes. they stand in a big area in a horseflock normaly, there is 2 flocks and 2 areas each flock have their area, one is the school horses, they have the smalles area, and the private horses have the biggest and best area. It's mostly kids from 10-15 who have their first horse who boards there, and its forbidden to use (metall)horse-shoes and whip on the horses, and you can only have horses from one special stud 10-hours driving from here, who breeds icelandic horses, they breed only on"disposition" (i found it in the wordbook, dunno if it's correct)
: they breed on the nice horses, and don't care about how they look as an icelandic horse, the only thing that matters is how nice/kind the horse is, they kind of guaranty a nice horse, instead of a good horse. the lady means that that is the most important, and the stud is the only one in norway who breeds on kindness/behaviour.

so that is kind of why I don't board my horse there.. I dont want to, and I'm not allowed anyway. I used to ride there before, but i had an argument with "the lady" so I quit.

It's a long story... razz

Wow an hour? isint that a bit much seeing as you rhorse pretty much lives there and thats 24 hours a day O.O

I see you, lol and I wish I could take lessons.

ya, i'm really glad i have them...but thats cause i don't have a horse.. wink
I remeber the first lesson i had on Dakota, i fell in love with him, and i remember my trainer saying that she thought we'd make a good pair....and we have!