Arionna’s First Saddling
Behind her white eyelashes, Arionna’s eyes have a soft, thoughtful quality. For the past several months, she has been put through her groundwork paces, and recently hit a big milesone: wearing a saddle for the first time. Arionna tends towards the ‘sticky’ side, and…
Volunteer Appreciation Party 2025
We can’t say enough good things about our volunteers! At our recent volunteer appreciation party, we recognized the countless hours served, the literal ‘tons’ of hay and water dished out to sweet, hungry horse bellies, and the over 1,000 lbs (!!!) of cleaned per day…
Alumni Update: Nyx
Lindsay provided an update on August 19th: Just dropping in to say hi from me and Nyx! We just got home from a fun time at sheep springs horse camp. Nyx has a rough time with flies in the summer (and this summer has been a doozy for flies around our neck of the…
Arionna’s First Rides
This big, beautiful mare had her first rides this week, and did very well! She’d had several months of preparation, and all that groundwork set her up for success. Because she leans more on the ‘duller’ side of things, the focus for her rides was free forward…
Alumni Update: Blanche (Joule)
We recently received an update from Blanche’s (Joule’s) adopter, Elissa: Joule’s first year with us has been an absolute joy. She settled right in with our older gelding, her youth complementing his wisdom nicely. Both horses are friendly with our four little goats as…
Alumni Update: Pearl
Pearl continues to do well with Diana and likes her boarding stable. Diana has lots of support from other horse owners and Pearl loves having a herd. The Pinto in the photos is Bear, her best bud. Pearl seems relaxed, happy, and healthy. Diana and Adam just had their…
A Lovely Wednesday
Wednesday, named for Wednesday Addams, is a bit less goth-looking than her namesake, and much less taciturn as far as her disposition goes. We recently visited with Wednesday (and Venturo, of course) and had the chance to take some glamour shots of this striking lady.…
Remembering Thelma
Last week, we said goodbye to a piece of SAFE: we let our old barn cat Thelma go. Though many of our volunteers never even saw her, they heard her croaky meow echoing down from her apartment in the loft, or seen a pair of little eyes tracking them on their journeys to…
Versatile Barb
Barb is fun, and Barb has fun. Barb says ‘no problemo’ to flags and ‘sure, why not’ to popping over a cavaletti. Barb has a great deal of sass and appreciates those who can take a joke, but when you laugh along with her, she is a willing and cool little partner.…
October Joel Conner Clinic Report: Ranger
Lise A worked alongside Ranger in the October Joel Conner clinic. While he has made lots of great progress in this style of groundwork, he still has some insecurities surrounding fly spray. Over the course of the three days, Lise worked a lot on helping Ranger grow…
Maisy in the Round Pen
We’re keeping things easy breezy with our miss Maisy, as she is still a growing girl. She comes in for groundwork sessions a few times a week where she gets her wiggles out and learns a bit more about giving to pressure and what a halter means. Here’s a recent video…
Alumni Update: Piper
Talia has been working a lot so hasn’t ridden much lately. Piper enjoys being with her pasture mate, Nova.
Alumni Update: Checkers
Checkers was adopted by Silver from previous adopter, Lola. Silver wanted a companion for her horses Bindy and Athena. Checkers is not ridden and is very relaxed and happy. She gets along very well with Athena and Bindy. Athena is an older horse while Bindy is…
Mateo Makes a Choice
We tried the ‘choose a paper’ challenge with Mateo recently. In the end, turns out you can have your cake and eat it too! https://youtube.com/shorts/LJp3nFyP3D4 Mateo has been doing great, making good choices as he grows in his skills on the ground. He is well…
