09/29/2025
This right here !
We have many successful horses that people discarded and same they have a home for life with us even when we were offered good money for them !
Before You Knock a Kill Pen or Auction Horse, remember horses mean no harm. They’re a product of where they came from prior. There is very rarely a moment that good nutrition, up keep, and some training can’t fix and make a horse amazing despite why they were “tossed” aside.
This is Fortune! We bought her for $1,600. We rehabbed her. We did all the hard work. I tuned her up. We had her teeth done. We’ve taken her to the chiropractor. We’ve had a vet check done every 45 days to make sure she’s 100%…. And Today a lady chased me to my truck and offered me 10x what we paid. she said she saw her when I posted her online for sale. She wish she would’ve bought her and she knew that I no longer wanted to sell her, but she had just watched my daughter run her and she literally chased us to the truck and offered me $16,000 and then said they’d searched high and low for an automatic horse a 35 pound child can ride safely without being whip lashed and she said would you entertain $20,000 I said you can offer 50k and as much as I’d love to cash your check ma’am, my husband and I can’t. Fortune will always have a home with us.
But, imagine if we all listened to negative people… What if we had saw the anti kill pen anti auction post online and decided to stop offering horses and not put our child on one…. Imagine what Fortunes life would be like if we hadn’t stepped up and done all the leg work.
I’m not saying that sale barn horses are perfect and I’m definitely not saying Kill Pen Horses aren’t a lot of rehab.
What I am saying is all horses are trainable: their ability to heal and come back is truly uncanny…. They’re so stoic and God made them to do amazing things. Don’t over look a project, just be ready to do the hard work and put in some elbow grease.
My elbow grease saved Jacob and I, a FORTUNE (lol)
Fortune and Tinley are sitting #1 in the WORLD for National Little Britches Rookie All Around and Little Wrangler Barrels, for the whole nation. I’d say the elbow grease paid off, she is Gods gift to my family and we’re so grateful for her.