09/15/2025
We have been devoted to rescuing horses for the past 9 years and it has been one of the most beautiful experiences of my life. To see horses who were thrown away, injured, starved, poorly trained or abandoned and transform them into the healthy and loved animal they were meant to be has been a blessing in my family’s life. Unfortunately that blessing has also been a major financial expense that has kept our family from thriving. No one will ever understand how many thousands of dollars we have spent from our own pockets to provide proper care, bail, medical, farrier, and training for over 1,000 horses that have come into our lives. We never asked for donations for anything besides major medical and sometimes bail for a few of the horses we saved from the kill pen. Everything else we used adoption fees, quarantine Boarding, transport fees or our own money. I have always felt very strongly that as a rescue if you couldn’t afford to support the animals in your care fully you shouldn’t have them. So I would adjust the number of rescues that I would keep at a time based on our finances. At our lowest numbers we had 6 rescues and at our highest we kept 40 at a time for one entire year. On average we had 20 horses in our rescue. We loved it most of the time and were incredibly heartbroken other times. We selflessly volunteered at the kill pen in Asheboro for over 4 years until the newer rider was being abusive to the horses and I refused to go back unless he was fired. Unfortunately he kept him and I refuse to have any part in that. God closed that door for a reason and as I no longer had the funds from quarantine boarders I slowly realized it was time for me to phase out of rescue so after 9 years of selflessly sacrificing my family it was time to change my focus from helping others to doing something that I can pass on to my children who have also worked very hard and been selflessly serving for years. We have officially rehomed all of the rescues that my daughter didn’t adopt (she kept 3 rescues that we rescued rehabbed and trained. She competes in barrel racing on Victory and Legacy and cowboy mounted shooting on Pixie - feel free to follow their adventures on my personal Facebook).
Today is my 46th birthday so I only felt it was fitting to make today the day I officially close the rescue and open a new chapter of my life. For the last fee months we have been preparing and remodeling our new business. We are opening a boarding facility and a HORSE PARK in Kenly NC. It still has a little ways to go before we want to accept any boarders and a lot more we need to do before we open the horse park to the general public but this is an exciting step for our family and we hope you all will join us in support of it. If you are looking for boarding (sorry no quarantine boarding will be available here) we would love to have you join our barn family! As always, we are committed to providing exceptional care for every horse in our lives. We named the business after one of our rescues that our family has grown attached to… Legacy Horse Park & Stables - follow us on Facebook
This horse boarding facility offers so many amenities! We are building a horse park on site.
