I apologize in advance for the long story.
After my first horse had been put down due to a serious case of irreversible EPM, I bought my horse, Tucker, from an auction a little over a year ago. I was SO lucky to find him there, because this is Texas and 95% of the horses I'd looked at were crap horses with terrible breeding. Tucker is a grandson of Hot Scotch Man with excellent conformation and a fabulous mover... and I bought him for only $275. He didn't know anything and had never been ridden before, and in the last year I've been training him (he is the first horse that I've trained myself, but I have been under close supervision of an experienced trainer who also taught me to ride almost eight years ago) and have started showing him in English Walk/Trot, Halter, and Showmanship classes at local schooling shows since last fall and he's been doing phenomenally well for being as green as he is. I wouldn't consider him a finished horse yet though, as he still needs a lot more work done on him. But he really was my angel; he was exactly what I needed to put me back in the saddle and pull me out of a clinical depression after losing my first boy, and I am so in love with this beautiful creature.
Here's the problem; I'm going to college this fall and I KNOW I can't finish him before then. I'll be moving about an hour away and living on campus; while I do plan on coming back most weekends, I know that two days a week is not enough go give him the time that he deserves. He's got such great potential and I know I'm equipped enough to finish him properly, but I don't know that I have the time, and I'd feel terrible to let a horse this good go to waste. He is my very best friend though, and I don't know that I could deal with losing him again, especially after losing my first horse two years ago... I don't know that I can go through that again. But, for his best interests, I've had to consider it.
I've considered leasing, but the issue with that is because he's NOT finished, still green, and he hasn't been ridden by anyone but me, there's a risk with getting a novice rider that would be leasing him, which would put them in danger. Also, even if the no-nothing leaser knows how to stay on a horse, there's always the risk that they could unknowingly teach him bad behaviors or allow him to "lose" some of what he's already been taught... I've never been through this whole leasing process, so if someone could explain that to me a little bet better in regards to my situation that would be great, too.

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Anyway, I just need some advice.
What would you do?

NOO DONT SELL HORSEY!!! if you must i will buy him. (he can hide underneath my bed) :))

i wouldnt sell him, he sounds abit to important to get rid of. Im sure you would miss him alot if you ever got rid of him after a loss of a good horse and then having to get rid of him would probably do more harm on you then it would be good for him. two days a week is better then none id keep him and try to make things work and if it isnt workin you could always fix it but i would just try to keep him for awhile or slowly let go of him if you have to

just an idea.

Keep him. Your nine months away at school will not be the kind of detriment to his training you are thinking it will be. It will just be a break.
If you and your parents can afford to keep him, I want you to think how sad you will be to come home on weekends and breaks to have him gone. pets question and answers,www.5d2d.com

Here is your other choice and what we did for our daughter when she went to college: find a spot to take the horse too. You don't say whether he is boarded or at your place at home. If boarded, just move him closer to you. If at home, spend a semester scouting around for a nice mom and pop place with a pasture that you can afford. Horses were my daughter's mind savers. It was the escape she always needed to get a break from school or any teen crisis.

It sounds too much like you will be devastated to sell him. You do not need that.

Leasing him could work, but you need someone who is as good or a better rider than you and has similar training goals and methods.....And usually such people can spend their time riding better horses, so it would be tough to find someone willing to lease yours.
That's the problem with leasing greenies- Most of the people interested are beginners themselves, in which case you'll likely come back to a horse that is worse than he was when you left. pets question and answers,www.5d2d.com

If you think you can sell him that may be the way to go, but also consider just giving him the winter off- It won't kill him, and it might be easier for you emotionally than selling. Financially, however......Well, it's up to you.