I am interested in starting to haul my own horses. I drive a 2005 Range Rover. Can I pull a two horse with it? Any information would be greatly appreciated!

Patricia

short answer, yes.

according to the range rover website, max trailer is 7716 pounds, however i could not find a GCWR. it appeared to be in the 14000 pound range though.  the owners manual may have more specific info.

some points of interest........max trailer weights generally require use a weight distrubting hitch. you will also need a brake controller. and an external tranmission cooler is a good investment in the transmission if the vehicle does not already have one.

i pull a steel 2h slant with dressing room, which is about as heavy as you can get with a 2h, and loaded with my medium size horses and tack it weighs about 6000 pounds.  i also tow with a suv, you WILL catch flak on this aspect, especially when the suv is not a suburban or excursion. it can, and is, being done safely all over the country. and before someone with a 1 ton dually trys to scare you, telling you wont be able to stop, let me tell you, yes you will. be safe and good luck.

Buying a 2horse straight or a 2horse slant is really up to you and how you want your horses to travel. Nobody on here can tell you otherwise, some are partial to slants with big arguments why, and others will say buy a straight load. Just start looking around and talking to your friends and see what suits you and your horses best.

One thing you may want to get with your trailer is a dressing room, some place to store your tack, clothing, supplies etc. I will add that a slant load trailer does provide a rear tack area which is nice to have to keep those stinky saddles/tack out of the dressing room.

Best of luck trailer shopping!

exactly. and with a modern WDH you can tweak the distrubution to your liking, getting almost 50%/50% on the tow vehicle as opposed to 60%/40% (give or take) unloaded.

and given more time i would explore this crap about horses being top heavy cargo. compared to what? ever haul round bales stacked? ever haul an equipment trailer with a backhoe/field tractor? sure horses can move on their own, but if tied in a stall, get real. they are no more top heavy than anything else one might tow. top heavy cargo is a situation any towing senerio can encounter, the driver is what makes it safe or unsafe. not the vehicle.

and the 150 pound overload being a very dangerous situation? talk about melodramatic. i doubt most landfills, co-ops, or most any other place, CAT scales included,  will accuratly weigh within 1.5%.

from the above link,

" For safety reasons, the tow vehicle should be able to perform as well with a trailer as without."

what the HELL? ive sat here and read, re-read, had my wife read, re-read trying to figure out how i may have taken that statement out of context, but i have not come up with any possible way.

who in their right mind would expect to take a vehicle, hook it to another "vehicle" which now at the very least doubles the length and weight with a hinge in the middle and expect it to "perform as well"? its amazing what finds its way into "print".

I agree! And I bet there is a Range Rover forum that you can get some real specific towing information from. Camp or horse trailer the basic towing limits are the same.

"For safety reasons, the tow vehicle should be able to perform as well with a trailer as without. The chance of an accident is increased when the tow vehicle is sluggish, or doesn't handle as quickly on the road as it should. Braking becomes ineffective."

Chadsalt, This is the WHOLE quote.  The statement is perfectly clear to me.  But, of course, you just don't agree with the concept so naturally this trailer manufacturer HAS to be wrong!  You are the expert here, right?

"That is a COMMERCIAL site, they're pushing product, I don't expect reason or rationale, but at the same time I don't expect nonsense."
Reg, not one time in that article are their trailers mentioned.  The article was about safe towing. 

" Sluggish steering is probably an asset in the event of trailer sway. "

Having towed with 3 Suburbans that did have sluggish steering and 2 Ford trucks who have a much tighter feel to the steering, I much prefer the tight steering!

It amazes me that you can't accept the word of trailer manufacturer experts.

I balked at the same quote - I agree - no tow vehicle will perform as well pulling a trailer - nor should it - I don't pull away as fast from a stop with a trailer as without one - nor should I. And are we to expect a truck and loaded trailer to stop as quicly as an unloaded truck??? Ofcourse not - we expect a short stopping distance but of course less weight will stop faster - no matter what tow vehicle you own. - that the Law of Physics - not much to argue with there.

Ok, to clarify the staement for those who just don't understand it...

"For safety reasons, the tow vehicle should be able to perform as well with a trailer as without. The chance of an accident is increased when the tow vehicle is sluggish, or doesn't handle as quickly on the road as it should. Braking becomes ineffective."

Don't tow with a vehicle that doesn't drive right to begin with!  If you truck isn't braking well, don't use it to tow with.  If there are questionable aspects to the tow vehicle, don't tow with it!!

"For safety reasons, the tow vehicle should be able to perform as well with a trailer as without. The chance of an accident is increased when the tow vehicle is sluggish, or doesn't handle as quickly on the road as it should. Braking becomes ineffective."

Would Al Gore allow erroneus information on the internet?  As with everything on the internet take it with a grain of salt.  I would say at best this bad advice and poorly written.  I think it is trying to refer to the previous paragraph about being within your vehicle limits and capacities when towing a trailer.  My way of thinking about it is that if I am within my capacities of my tow vehicle then my vehicle will perform " as well with a trailer as without"   However you must take into consideration that you will not be able to turn/ accelerate/ decl the same.

What you just said makes perfect sense

"What you just said makes perfect sense

But that is not what the quote from the website says - that may be what they meant - but it's not what they said."

Maybe I understood it from the beginning because of the "female factor".  It was written by a woman and men seldom understand us anyway!