2000 Featherlite 3 Horse Gooseneck Trailer with 4 ft Dressing Room

Description

The Aluminum Gooseneck That Turns Day Trips Into Overnighters

Featherlite built its name on aluminum horse trailers, and this 2000 three-horse gooseneck shows why the reputation stuck. The pull is steadier than a bumper pull of comparable size, the turning is tighter, and up front a 4 ft dressing room gives you somewhere to keep tack out of the weather and somewhere to change out of it.

It suits owners who travel to shows and trailheads rather than just running to the vet. Three head, a dressing room with a clothes rod so show clothes arrive unwrinkled, and enough separation between gear and horses that nothing comes home smelling of the trip. Aluminum construction is the other half of the appeal, keeping the trailer light for its size and sparing you the corrosion battle that older steel rigs of the same vintage are usually losing by now. Inside the horse area, two dividers and a three-tier saddle rack cover the essentials without adding weight or complication.

Air Moving Where the Horses Are

Ventilation on a horse trailer is not a comfort item, it is a welfare one, and this layout handles it from three directions. Drop-down windows on the head side bring fresh air to the horses up front, slats at the rear let it flow out rather than stagnate, and roof vents give heat somewhere to go on a warm afternoon. Underfoot, rubber floor mats cushion legs over long miles, and rubber-lined kick walls absorb the knocks that otherwise mark both horse and trailer.

Specifications

• Gooseneck hitch configuration
• 4 ft dressing room with clothes rod
• Drop-down windows on the head side
• Slats at the rear for ventilation
• Roof vents
• Three-tier saddle rack
• Bridle hooks
• Two dividers
• Rubber floor mats
• Rubber-lined kick walls

The trade-off with any gooseneck is the truck. You need a bed-mounted hitch and a pickup rated for the tongue load, which rules out the SUV that might manage a small bumper pull. In exchange you get markedly less sway, a tighter turning circle and better behavior in crosswinds, which is why serious haulers keep coming back to the layout. On a trailer of this vintage, look hard at the floor and the cross members beneath it, check the dividers latch cleanly, and confirm the brakes and lights work before loading anything living. Aluminum bodies of this age usually present better than steel ones do, but the floor is still the component that decides whether a trailer has another decade of work in it.

If this is the one, the next step is simple: confirm the address, transfer the funds, and we handle the rest. Delivery to the Lower 48 costs nothing, Puerto Rico is a flat $550, and most trailers are on the road inside 4 to 10 days. Other three-horse options are listed in Three Horse Trailers, and the returns policy gives you 30 days.