shipping my horse

hello all, I dont know if any of you can help me with this but I'm looking to find a shipping company to ship my horse to England, I'll ive found are air freight company's that will do it for a pretty hefty price. I'm more looking in to sea freight only because its a little cheaper and the thought of my baby on a plane scares me for some reason.
Thanks

i havent a clue, but ur horse is so lovely! 

Wow! I don't know if anyone here has horse migrating experience but I hope someone can help. Did you check Defra to see if there are approved routes for horses? If that limits you then that might at least fix part of your problem.

I couldn't find much with a quick search on defra's website but I did find that you need a horse passport (even from outside the EU): http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/id-move/horses/horses_qa.htm#14

I bet you already knew that but just in case you didnt! I'd love to hear what the process for bringing horses in is though if you have a sec to type it out

Thanks for the defra website I got loads of info, I know that I have to have him quarantined at an approved facility for 30 days prior to shipment. I had no idea about the passport though, I'm transporting him over because I want to have the chance to compete in endurance riding and I will have a better opportunity then I did in the states to start training race horses.

i'd give defra a call... they've been friendly in the past and can help make sure you've done everything right

thank you very very much!! I really appricate it!!

My vet told me when I was getting my dog ready to ship that it is a hell of a lot easier (paperwork wise) to ship a horse then a dog.  He was in the horse shipping business and was very reltuctant to do small animal shipping.  So good luck!

I always wondered how this works because when they hold the huge horse-racing events, the participants always seem to be able to get their horses  between countries rather easily and quickly!

http://www.peden-bloodstock.de/home_uk.php

This is a company Ingestre stables uses, my hubs trained there for awhile, he called and asked who they use, because they ship horses back and forth from here to there a lot.

Are you still looking for information or options on shipping your horse? I'm in the midst of shipping my Arabian (he is scheduled to arrive on a flight to Amsterdam on Sunday, and projected to arrive in London on the horse van from there on Jan 29th    ). I got quotes from several shippers before picking the one I am now using.

I don't think many horses are shipped from the USA via ship anymore - as far as I understand flying is actually easier on them - I think in part because it is over and done with much quicker than them having to stand around on a boat for a week.

I'm using the Tim Dutta corporation for shipping http://www.timdutta.com/ [nofollow]
I see they've just revamped their website and it now has a nice explanation of the process of flying horses on it.

Dutta use New York to ship out of which might not be as good for you since you are in Nevada

Before settling on Dutta (who came recommended via being the US partner of a German shipping company a friend uses) I had also gotten some recommendations from people here who are involved in the Quarter Horse show scene here of a company in Oklahoma, Nedpoint Quarter Horses, who do export as well: http://www.nedpointquarterhorses.com/ [nofollow]
They actually quoted me the lowest price on the part of the process they handle, but that route would have made it so I had to ship my horse cosiderably farther overland in the USA, which would have been harder on him  - so I went with a slighty pricier option that was a better route for him based on where he was starting from 

AFAIK The horse passport is something you will get for your horse after your horse is in England, as the USA does not have a requirement for horses to have identification that includes their vet records with them at all times in the same way the EU countries do. (This is what a horse passport is - it's not actually a document specifically for use in crossing borders, despite the name!) The DEFRA requirement is that horse in the country for more than a relatively short time be passported, but you are definitely allowed to acquire the passport *after* the horse arrives if it is coming from a country like the USA that does not have passports as a usual thing.