Protecting Your Priceless Equine Assets

• A recent study by The Equipment Register (TER) found that 11 % of horseboxes listed for sale online had been stolen or had tampered identity plates—among just 650 inspected listings. TER’s database includes 250,000 horseboxes, highlighting the scale of the problem .

• Across all trailer types in the UK, rural crime reports indicate a 66% increase in trailer thefts since 2021, making trailers the most commonly stolen item. In the first half of 2022 alone, trailer thefts jumped 69% year‑over‑year—driven partly by a surge in demand following UK towing-law changes in December 2021 .

• Insurer data shows that 95% of stolen horse trailers are taken from locations that are away from the owner’s home—demonstrating how vulnerable they are, even in apparently secured yard environments.

• Built for mobility: Horseboxes and trailers are easy to hitch, making them quick and low-risk for thieves.

• High resale value: Due to long lead times for new trailers, used units fetch premium resale prices, even on the black market.

• Concealed storage: Keeping trailers in barns or behind gates can offer a false sense of security—criminals often target and even recon these kinds of locations using drones.

It’s not just trailers at risk. The 4×4s, pickup trucks, and vans used to tow them are also highly targeted—either stolen outright or exploited for keyless entry hacks. Losing both the towing vehicle and trailer compounds the impact significantly - that's a lot of value lost, and even more inconvenience and disruption incurred.

Locking systems like hitch locks, wheel clamps, alarms, ground anchors, CCTV, and forensic markers create much-needed layers of security. However, while these deterrents delay thieves, they don’t always offer absolutely protection, nor the means to facilitate near-term recovery. Indeed, 63% of stolen trailers had both hitch locks and wheel clamps, yet were still taken by determined thieves.

Enter Stealth Tracer— our discrete, portable, waterproof GPS tracking system perfectly suited for the needs of equestrians. Here are our key advantages for your particular use case:

Our compact tracking device is wire-free, self-install and easily re-assigned via the free Stealth Tracer app. So you can easily move the device between trailers, horseboxes, 4×4s, and vans as needed. One unit can offer mobile protection across your entire equestrian fleet - but with meaningful multi-pack discounts available, why not equip your most valuable assets with a device of their own for the ultimate peace of mind? And you can have a single view of the location of each protected asset within a single app user account for total convenience.

The beauty of the type of equipment used by equestrians is the sheer size of the assets being protected, offering so many locations in which to hide and secure the compact, discreet Stealth Tracer device. And once it's in place, the unit remains silent between location updates, not giving off the kind of signal that conventional trackers do, which make them vulnerable to the sophisticated criminals using scanning wands or 'sniffers' to seek out and remove security devices.

Once your Stealth Tracer device is placed in Theft Mode via the app, it switches into more frequent, close to real-time location updates which feed into our Stealth Sentinel 24/7 monitoring and recovery service. Once you're in touch with them, their highly-skilled and experienced team will take the reins and offer you a warm handover to the Police force local to your asset's present location, or give you the option for them to mobilise their private recovery agents and attempt to repatriate your cherished assets back to where they belong. Our end-to-end solution is Thatcham S7 approved, too, which could also attract discounts on your insurance in future, too.

In summary, Stealth Tracer’s portability, invisibility, and tracking capabilities make it the perfect complement to existing deterrents and protection for your equine investments. Whether you’re at home, at a show, or traveling cross-country, Stealth Tracer gives you peace of mind — and presents a major hurdle for criminals to jump over.