03/05/2026
Welcome to your forever home, Conejo and Manotas!
This week we welcomed two new horses to our RB Family - to a life filled with lots of love ❤️
Conejo means rabbit in Spanish, and he got that name because he was a show jumping horse, and was even once the national champion in his class. After not having any horse friends for quite some time, he is extremely happy to be making new friends at Rancho Baaxal.
Manotas means "big hands" or in the horse world actually "big front hooves" and it's for a reason - his hooves are huge! He is a former polo pony that wasn't "fast enough" for his sport. He's fast enough for us though ❤️ (Fun fact: the term "polo pony" comes from the beginnings of polo, when small ponies were used for the games. Nowadays full size horses are used, but the term pony is still used in English.)
Two horses from different places and different backgrounds, but both equally wonderful and perfect additions to our family. After losing several horses the last few years, we had room for new intakes. And universe had it that these horses came to us on the very same day, making our little herd at Rancho Baaxal grow from 10 to 12 horses.
A special thank you to my dear friends and vets Arturo Cebado and Aide Salazar for making this happen, and another huge thank you to our wonderful donor, who helped us with a big part of the expenses involved in bringing these new horses to the ranch.