Posted 2024-11-26 5:42 PM (#185829) Subject: Suggestions for lightweight two horse trailer
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We currently have an SUV with a towing capacity of 5000lbs and tongue weight of 500lbs.
We are new to horse ownership, but have started leasing a small pony. She’s wonderful when riding, but extremely skittish around trailering.
We’ve worked with her and have been able to load her successfully into a friend’s trail wind classic II slant load. It looks like the trail wind has a weight of a little over 3300 lbs, so probably 3800-4000lbs with the pony, but I’m a little worried about the tongue weight loading her in the front.
Our other experiences with trailing her have honestly been so stressful that if it’s doable, we would probably try to get a trail wind just because we know she can do it!
I’d love to get more seasoned opinions on whether this trailer is just too close for comfort weight wise and if so, are there other lighter options that still have the large open feel of the trail winds trailer.
A bit more information, if helpful. Right now, we’re only trailering about a mile. Anything over that would be for a show and our barn trails the horses for shows.
At some point, we will need to get a larger truck, but I don’t anticipate that happening for a year or two.
Any thoughts/suggestions would be very appreciated. We’re new enough to all of this that we don’t know what we don’t know!
Suggestions for lightweight two horse trailer
