Welcome aboard to the world of expensive animals. It's amazing what we do for the women in our lives.

Farmbabe has it right. You picked a good trailer that should last you as long as you want it to. It's larger size will lessen the chances that it will be quickly outgrown. During your ownership you can upgrade it and customise it to your individual needs. A decade from now, it will be worth a majority of your purchase price, and if well maintained, will depreciate very little more afterward. 

Make sure your towing vehicle is properly set up for towing your trailer. Once you have the right mechanical details addressed, you will find your common travels and interests, to be a pleasurable way to spend quality family time together.

My wife and I raised 2 daughters with horses. They ran the NISCA circit in Iowa.

They are 30 and 25 now. Both are doing very well in life and I am sure that a lot of the responsibility they learned came from running the horse games. We farmed 700 acres and had 100 hd of stock cows and I worked full time in town. I had to do a lot of my farming at night and on saturday just to be able to take them on sunday's to their horse events. They saw all the sacrifices that their mother and I had to do for them. They started when they were 10 years old and we started with yearlings that I bought and we raised them. The girls grew up with these horses and they were like family. I got lucky when I bought the oldest girls horse. This mare and her colt were coming thru the Waverly Horse sale and the guy that bought the mare did not want the colt. So he left the colt in the arena and resold it. I did not know much about blood lines back then and I bought the colt for $260 ( this was 1991 ). This filly was a Easy Jet - Jet Deck breeding. Man this horse had wheels. My oldest daughter and her were High Point Timed Event horse in 1998. We raise a colt out of her and my second daughter raised him and they were High Point Timed Event horse in 2001 and 2002. I remember when she was little and just starting on him in the games and she thought she would never be as good as the older girls and she would cry. I told her to just keep riding him,work with what you have. As she got older I told her to always help the younger kids to keep them encourage to keep trying. In 2002 we were at a show and a couple of the younger girls came up to me  and asked if I was Lindsey father and I said yes. The girls commented that I was the father of the famous Barrel Racer. When I told my daughter that she smiled with pride and said she was not famous. I told her in these little girls eyes she was. It gave me a lot of pride to watch the daughters do what they did and every dime I spent was well worth it. Have fun with your kids while you have them

My father used to tell people he wanted to help me with any horse showing because it would keep me off the street corners.  We lived on 100 acres off a dirt road.  I saw street corners on TV and when we went to town,  I didn't really undertand the danger in them back then.  Thirty years later,  I see his wisom,  God rest his soul.

The confidence in driving a trailer is something any young girl or middle aged women can be proud.  Help her with this also.