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Any horse owner, especially owners of older horses, will have wondered at some point when is the right time to retire a horse and whether or not they should retire the horse completely or just reduce its workload.

What age should a horse stop being ridden

Of course, we all want to carry on riding but, as always, the welfare of our beloved horses is always at the forefront of our minds.

In an ideal world there would be a simple ‘you should stop riding your horse at X years of age’ but this is by no means an ideal world so there is no one answer that fits all.

Instead, there is a range of factors that need to be taken into consideration before deciding if now is the right to retire your horse.

What does it mean to retire a horse?

To us, the word retire simply means to stop working and in theory enjoy the rest of our lives but when it comes to horses the word retire can have a variety of different interpretations depending on what sort of work you and your horse are (or were) doing.

If, for example, you compete at a top-level, retirement simply means that your horse is no longer competing, if, on the other hand, you rid

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