Horse ReCourse

08/14/2024

Raku 2012 Appendix type bay mare in Calistoga

available for adoption

Raku is an engaging, friendly and curious horse looking for the right partner. She loves attention, and gets along well with people and other horses. She has nice gaits and is a responsive and forward moving horse.

Raku is athletic and quick, and shows an aptitude for performance disciplines. She enjoys getting out on trails. With her sensitivity and athleticism, she will succeed with an equally sensitive, tactful rider.

Raku is starting her training under saddle, and will need a confident, competent rider to bring her along. She can be reactive, and needs help building trust in the rider. She has been ridden at all 3 gaits both in the arena and on the trail. She is brave in her environment, and has excellent ground manners. She is easy to catch, lead, tie, longe, groom, etc., and gets along well with other horses.

Raku enjoys trails, and has the stamina and interest to do long distance and technical terrain. She shows an aptitude for work over fences, and could be a nice eventing prospect, or a good horse for a rider that enjoys Search and Rescue, or other long distance riding.

She has been trained using classical horsemanship techniques, natural horsemanship, and both positive and negative reinforcement. Raku is currently in training with Erin King of All The King's Horses in Calistoga.

www.allthekingshorsesranch.com

She is healthy and up to date on dental work and vaccines. She is wearing four shoes.

Raku and her baby suffered neglect, and have been carefully rehabilitated with Robyn McCallister at Horse ReCourse. Her adoption fee will help us support more horses like her.

Details at www.horserecourse.org

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here a few recent video clips:

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05/08/2024

Raku was rescued with her baby from extreme neglect. Since being rescued, she has been rehabilitating and is in training so we can find her the perfect forever home. This girl is kind and wants to please with her whole big heart. This little sport horse prospect is currently in training with Gina Ruth at Hawkwood Hill. Courtney Lewis, vet extraordinaire, was kind enough to donate scoping Raku for ulcers, and she was diagnosed with squamous and glandular ulcers. Ulcers can make saddling and being ridden painful for a horse. The treatments for these ulcers are not cheap but could massively improve Raku’s quality of life. Let’s raise $1000 for Raku’s ulcer treatment so she can get adopted out and find her special someone!
Donate here: https://www.horserecourse.org/donate

12/25/2023

Maybe..

I love this. Thanks to all who care. It truly makes the world a better place.

12/18/2023

Happy Monday!

We are so thrilled to see Clay enjoying his new life after being adopted out. Nothing makes us happier!

09/27/2023

Meet Rupert! Rupert was a trail horse for the public, first at a quest ranch, and then at a beach concession. He spent over twenty years serving thousands of people in this capacity. At the age of 30, when he was no longer able to be ridden, he was left in a stall for months without proper care. Horse ReCourse took him in and invested in vet and farrier care to help him recover his health. These days, Rupert is healthy and happy, and as a program, we’re working to support the care he needs and deserves for the remainder of his 5-10 years. As a senior horse, Rupert will not likely be re-homed, however, he is enjoying a happy and comfortable life in central California.

09/22/2023

This rings so true:

I hope one day you meet a difficult horse.

A horse that frustrates you and sometimes says no.

A horse that shatters your dreams and makes you feel hopeless because you cannot solve their problem with what you know.

Why would I wish this upon you?

Because this horse will show you the limitations of your understanding and challenge you to step up and learn.

Sometimes the lessons you will need to learn is to improve your knowledge, skills and self awareness and how you directly impact the horse and make the feel.

You will work hard spending hours in the dust, sun, wind and rain making yourself better to help this horse - and you will do it.

Sometimes the lesson will be one of acceptance that the horse you love and have poured so much time and money into is not sound.

Your heart will break as you now see your difficult horse was just telling you it was struggling.

This horse will teach you to see and know things about horses that you will never be able to un-see or un-know. You will see horses struggling and people (no different than you past self) blind to that struggle.

But this horse will make you a better horsewoman or man, and you will be grateful they came into your life and what they taught you.

The story of you and this horse will always be a hard story to tell. Sometimes when you tell it, you will get tears in your eyes. But it will be one of the most meaningful stories of your life.

You will share this story with others with the hope that it will help them with their horse. So that your horse, can help their horse too.

This is my difficult horse. His name was Skuda and I am grateful what this horse taught me...and if I have helped you with your horse.....well you can be grateful for him too ❤

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09/22/2023

We are so happy to see Clay thriving in his new home!

For those who don’t know, Clay is Raku’s c**t who we found at the neglected property in Albion back in 2020. Both Clay and Raku were in poor condition when we found them, and it took several weeks to be able to halter Clay and eventually trailer him to a friend’s property to live with other young horses, and grow up.

Fast forward to now, it’s incredible to see the progress he’s made and the new adventures he’s had since being adopted from our program. We are all cheering you on, Clay! ❤️

09/20/2023

Here's some video of Raku getting started using R+ (positive reinforcement):
https://youtu.be/zRcBMfXjo-Y?feature=shared

It's interesting to see how this method, which is developing, encourages a "learning frame of mind", relaxed, curious, and motivated.

Thank you to Jenni Purcell and John Saint Ryan for their instruction!

using R+ in the round corral