An Accident Means Early Retirement Black Thoroughbred Gelding Entry Date – 5/1/12 Type of rescue – Retirement Reason – Lameness from a bone chip in his left front leg Special needs – None Originally, Eddie was trailered in to the facility for a weekly riding lesson by the woman who owned him at the time. Because of Eddie’s athletic ability and hot nature, the owner soon decided he was too much horse for her and put him up for sale.…
Out of Options Falcon – Buckskin Quarter Horse Gelding – Born 2000 Entry Date – 11/12/19 Type of Rescue – Surrender Reason – Chronic Neglect Special Needs – None Falcon, along with Phoenix, were owned by a prominent local person who was keeping them in a friend’s field. The owner died without making any known provision for his horses and the “friend” wanted no part of them. Law Enforcement was called when the horse’s weight dropped to dangerously low levels.…
Glad To Be Home At Last Chestnut Thoroughbred Gelding Born 3/3/92 Entry Date – 7/12/08 Type of rescue – Surrendered Reason – Owners lost interest in horses and couldn’t find a buyer for him Special needs – None Mowen first came to the Sanctuary from his previous owners because they were getting out of the horse business and moving back to town. Unable to find a buyer, the owners asked if Equamore might possibly find someone to adopt him. In…
Blind in one eye and can’t see out of the other Chestnut Quarter Horse Gelding Entry Date – 10/22/16 at 23 years of age Type of rescue – Surrender Reason – Owner unable to care for Cash Special needs – Continuing care of leg wound Cash was an elderly gelding Quarter Horse whose owner loved him. He served his owner for many years before his owner, and thus Cash, fell on hard times. When surrendered to the Sanctuary, Cash had…
