Preparing in advance can help ease your horse's transition from his old home to his new one. | Photo: iStock

Bringing home a newly purchased horse can be a stressful event. While you might feel a certain amount of stress, your new horse will be experiencing it twofold. After all, he’s the one that has been uprooted from all familiar surroundings and companions.

If you’ve ever relocated from one home to another, be it due to a new job, schooling, or simply chasing your dreams, you’re probably very much aware of how taxing it is to move and get settled into a new home.

But consider this. Any move that you have made, you probably did so voluntarily. Your new horse did not have that option. Had it been up to him, odds are he would have chosen to stay right where he was: a place he was accustomed to, and where he already felt secure among established herdmates