Stall 13 Horses

Track -> sale into his second career as a trail horse --> kill buyer and pen -> bailed by the community; Scheduled to quarantine and rehab with Stall 13.

Stay tuned for more information here. 

Wine Responsibly is scheduled to arrive on Wednesday Dec. 3 and head into our quarantine stall and paddock. It will be a long month for all of us, but keep an eye out for his updates! 

Wine Responsibly last ran at Finger Lakes on November 11th, placing 6th in his claiming race. His season was over, he was done running, and it was time for him to be listed for sale to a non-racing home. His owner received calls and sold him to a woman who stated that she was a "forever home" for Wine with a daughter who trail rides. Within a week, Wine Responsibly had been traded to a kill buyer. *He has thankfully not been through a  kill pen sale.*

The Finger Lakes and broader racing community rallied to bail him out and figure out next steps. And it seemed that there were ample options for this son of Vino Rosso. Unfortunately, all these options fell through, and by last night, Wine Responsibly needed somewhere to go ... and quickly.

The community had already raised the cost of his bail, so we covered his shipping and started scheming about how to quarantine a horse in the NY cold. We have a plan, a freight of supplies headed our way, and clear purpose: Get Wine Responsibly safe, keep him warm and healthy, and ride out the quarantine period away from all other horses and forms of cross contamination.

We're transitioning a run-in shed into his stall, and a round pen is on the way to build turnout that keeps him at a minimum 25-feet from other horses. He'll need blankets, brushes, and all of his own supplies. We need help with building material to transition the shed into a warm stall. And we'll need support to cover his vet fees for both routine work and any preventative care or treatment for whatever he may have come into contact with in the kill buyer's farm / pen.

Wine Responsibly arrives at Stall 13 (located at Kivu Sporthorses) from the kill pen on Wednesday. We're under a time crunch and a financial crunch. Any and all donations go directly to supporting Wine and supplies, veterinary work, feed, and shoes for Stall 13 horses. 

Fig is one heck of a ham. This horse has more personality than most boarding barns see in a year. He's handsome, lovable and will shake you down for your treats or your beer. Yes, Fig loves a good libation and will happily steal sips of yours. 

Fig ran hard and earned his retirement. He came to us last year just before Christmas with swollen ankles and a slew of issues. We got him on the right path and he lucked into the lap of a generous ammie who took his rehab on as her project. What we thought was the need for hock injections turned out to be chronic (not acute) suspensory issues. Fig had stall rest, turn out and was slowly brought back to work. 

He just needs more time. He'll winter with us in our usual set up - 12 hours in, 12 hours out being a dingus with his friends. And we'll bring him back to work and see where he is at in late winter / spring. 

Often with ligament and tendon issues, when the issue is not acute, they just need time and more let down than most people want to do. We have time, and we like Fig, so he can hang out and cause a happy ruckus in the barn while we see how sound he will come and what he will need. 

Fig is available for adoption FOR REHAB at 1000 and a contract. There is no guarantee that this horse will jump in the future or be a first flight fox hunter. But we're pretty certain there's enough soundness for a quality low-level career in there. 

Gen is ready to find his human and hit the trails or bee bop around as a low level all around mount. Asking 🌟very low f o u r s🌟 for this big dude. 

Gen is wildly uncomplicated but he is still a big moving, HUGE young thoroughbred. He’s brave and has not displayed any anxiety under saddle. I’d rather see him end up in a home where he’s not expected to be a packer at 5 though. He has a great brain and willing, kind demeanor but he will still need the rider knowledge and training to learn whatever job it is you point him at. 

Recent schooling: https://youtu.be/PUZEObv_YhI?si=ugk6ddlp6F0-44ED

Good for the vet, the farrier… good in a stall and out in a field of geldings. Good on the cross ties…Just plain good across the board. He does need at least front shoes.  

Generation had a productive race career, retired sound and then began training for his second job as a fox hunter. There were big dreams for this guy- the huntsman’s horse. He trained well, ticked all the boxes, and was full speed to a career he would have loved. 

A basic chip removal set off a reaction of bone growth in his right front fetlock. He has osteophytes and bone spurs making it visually bigger but also job limiting. Cornell is pretty sure the heavy demands of a job at the top of the hunt are more than he needs right now (aka jumping should be limited) but he is still absolutely ridable and able to do lower level things. As such he is what we call “serviceable sound.” I would not point him at a show life or a circle-driven dressage career, but there is a lot of miles left in those legs and that ankle. 

Could he hunt occasionally without jumping? Oh absolutely. Could he do some hunter paces and trail ride? Yep. Could he be a family horse for a good riding group of folks? Sure. Is he a “husband horse”? … maybe… guess that depends on the quality of husband (riding that is). 

We’re happy to share radiographs and reports and discuss findings. Nope, this one won’t “pass” a vetting but there’s ample corners of the horse world where he’ll still have a place. 

STALL 13 SUPPORTED HORSE

Gen is available through Stall 13, a New York based non-profit organization (www.stall13.org)that specializes in challenging case horses like himself. Our goal is to show that horses like Gen can recover and make it to a new career despite their known challenges and have a good life. As such, he comes with lifetime protection and a contract - he’s always welcome back here and we’re always here to help. His carrots go directly back to the program to support avenues for other “challenging case” horses and prove the notion that one should always “ride the horse, not the xrays.”

Gen is offered at 1500 to a lower level home who understands his maintenance needs and limits. His purchase price is a donation to Stall 13 and goes directly to caring for the other horses in the program. Trial fees and processes explained above. 

PLACED! 

Sews is a huge, elegant goof ball who has three lovely gaits and a jump with clear, pretty knees. He feels great and has made it very clear that he is ready for a job! What job does Sews need? He could succeed at pretty much anything – eventing, dressage, fox hunting, jumpers, and even hunters for his daisy cutter movement. 

Right now though, he’s a happy, goofy, endearing kiddo who wants a human to do all the things with him. His adoption fee is ✌️🥕🥕🥕 until the end of the year (negotiable to a perfect home). 

Recent flat school: https://youtu.be/xqK6UBD8N7I?si=tvKtO8B_IiyRmqzj

Sews has experience running starter in Georgia and schooling BN elements with a junior. He came back, put weight back on and is legging back up. He’s brave and fun and just a general goof. He hacks the property with my working students and schools well both with them and me, though he is far from being a packer.

Sews has a weak hind end that stems from the bottom up- he needs proper shoes and pads, and does require hock / stifle maintenance annually. I keep him on high doses of vitamin E and that seems to keep him in shape for riding. And at tgis point, he needs regular work and hills as well as poles and small trot jumps.

I’d love to see him go to an all around home. Are there any deserving pony clubbers out there who need a nice horse on a budget? He’ll need group turnout but also a stall for his feet to dry out. He is a red Thoroughbred afterall, and they do kind of melt in the elements. 

more info : Sews absolutely needs a herd… and he needs to have someone in that herd who can keep him in line. He's not mean at all, just can be the annoying little brother type.

Under saddle he is pretty uncomplicated and has ridden and competed for the last three months by a capable junior, and has been in my program a couple days a before and after. He is successfully and “fancily” showing off his flat work and happily popping over small fences (to increase as he keeps coming along).

Sews came through my program in Georgia last year and was with me from Christmas to March of 2023. In that time he gained a solid foundation and was coming along well.

He shipped to Washington to a very knowledgeable rider, and didn’t quite work out in the situation. To no fault of anyone’s he just needed a set of other geldings to play with. Alone in a paddock next to a pony, Sews just got himself in more and more trouble. His owner did everything under the sun – she treated for ulcers, worked him on the ground, and xrayed his back – he does have kissing spine, which he does not palpate to. *I'm happy to share more insights here as I do not believe that this is a limiting factor for him. 

Unsure how to go forward, she kindly shipped him back across the country.

Sews has hung out with my geldings and found his feet and herd. He was schooling Starter and BN fences here before heading to Georgia to a friend who provided him XC experience while we thawed and dried out. Sews did dressage lessons, xc schools, CTs and HTs at Starter with his junior before shipping back up here. He would love a doting human with a good sense of humor and at least an intermediate or above riding level. 

Requirements:

-  Shoes (he has tender feet)

-  A herd of geldings

-  A rider & trainer with intermediate or better skills in the saddle and solid abilities to maintain boundaries

-Correct saddle fit 

Sews' adoption fee is 2k but is open to negotiation to the perfect home. Adoptions can be resold.

FOUND A HOME!!!! 

This horse might have a head (and a knee) that only a mother can love, but everyone who sits on him sure raves about the ride. He rides more like what folks call a “classic WB ride” than how annoying stereotypes paint the TB. He is far from sensitive, but remains a lovely forward ride with swinging, consistent gaits, and he is happy to have you use your aids a bit louder than some of the rest of mine will tolerate.

Great in the warmup, great in the competition arena and lovely on trails. This is seriously just one well-started, versatile big kid with a season full of miles. Good for vet and farrier, hauls well, stalls ok but prefers outside, and has minimal maintenance despite his X-rays. 

What more could you want for low f o u r s?

Spin is a RRP Makeover 2025 graduate finishing in the top 1/3 of the dressage entries despite a test interrupted by the fox hunt division (hunt ran by as our walk began, clearly taking any hopes of a walk of any form with it). The judges loved his trot work awarding 8s. he’s ready to begin training first level movements. 

Major Spin is a huge horse who has all the presence, movement, and smarts to go right on up the levels in dressage. He’s only 16.3 but is wide barreled and carries himself like he’s 17.2. He also has one of those classic “good brains” that means he could pack around at the Intro or Training levels quite happily. While I think he’d love and succeed at a dressage life, I would put money on his ability to fox hunt and to look damn good while doing so as well.

Makeover Dressage: https://youtu.be/BHjCgG65Lf0?si=VPSXzLyLR-Jt-gra

T3- August: https://youtu.be/ov5BEnisig0?si=ADsjeoiaqhoLy3r6

T2 - June : https://youtu.be/g5LVBAo7nA8?si=hNDJeRuhulF3zuOH

Outside hack at home April: https://youtu.be/SJWb9yIt-8E?si=9VtPb4th0dhSot6e

Spin is probably the only true rescue in my barn. I don’t use that word lightly. He’s a huge, smart, lump-headed goober who needs a job that accommodates a pretty special knee. Otherwise, I’d be eventing this horse up through the ULs.

Spin’s life on the track was not always easy and he fell into some less-than-optimal hands, who ignored what should have been treated. Slab fracture, chip, and arthritis. Spin became Stall 13’s* flagship horse and yet, after we rested him for a few months, he is SOUND and hard at work perfecting his dressage. Do we have rads to share? Absolutely! Hell, we printed them on a sweatshirt (not kidding).

As such we have not been jumping him. I’d recommend a mostly-non jumping career for the longevity of the joint.

Spin would be appropriate for a good riding amateur to bring along, but in the right program he’d also be able to handle green-bean humans. Spin has confidently and carefully carried my nervous friends, helped to reinstall confidence in Thoroughbreds and handled trials and lessons and rides by all of my working students with ease.

He's not a total packer... yet… and you still have to have and uphold boundaries, but Spin is proving to be an exceedingly versatile horse who just needs a job and a person or two who think the world of him.

A bit more backstory:

Spin’s issue was his knee. Various vets have looked at the knee since we radiographed it and can assume that he may have slab fractured, continued to run on it, chipped, and developed arthritis both on the front side and rear sides of the joint. 

Compounding the problems, another reputable rehomer had recently seen Spin sitting in icepacks and getting continuously cold hosed on the knee before heading to the race paddock to run on it. Most track trainers are decent folks. I can't say the same of his former owner.

The track vets went so far as to donate radiographs of the knee. Suffice to say, the knee isn’t pretty and was not a candidate for surgery. But the trainer didn’t want to give him away, he “had a buyer in New Jersey” who wanted him… maybe to keep racing, maybe to retire (I find that dubious), who knows? So I did what was financially irresponsible at the time and ponied up the funds and got him out of there.

A year and two months later, Spin trotted down the center line at the Retired Racehorse Project's Thoroughbred Makeover, finishing in the top third in a huge class. 

Spin is available for $2500 negotiable to a perfect home. 

FOUND A HOME

Gibbs is a lovely moving, sweet, talkative dude. He loves people and prefers to have a job and friends. If you like talkative horses, he’ll nicker / chuff sweetly at you all day long just to draw in more attention. Gibbs is WTC for an intermediate rider with a good trainer / barn manager who knows how to handle sensitive-footed OTTBs. 

Gibbs is good to have a full life of riding and companionship, but he requires a few extras: his own stall and a good farrier (and limited turnout). Look, I’m a huge fan of getting these horses outside as much as possible. That said, his feet really just can’t currently handle it the wet-dry cycle of turnout. He can turnout but smaller, dry spaces would be preferred. He cannot go barefoot and just be in boots – that’s a fine stop gap if he loses a shoe, but this kid is tender and needs all the bottom-up help he can get. 

Gibbs would be a lovely pasture pet, or very low level dressage mount or just a good all around kiddo. He has not spent much time jumping and gets quite nervous outside of arenas, so I wouldn’t recommend him for a trail home unless said adopter knows how to work with green and anxious types. Inside the arena or the near-field, he is lovely, kind and has super movement under saddle. 

His issues to know about: 

-  Feet: Needs a quality farrier and at least front shoes at all times

-  Limbs: Has a well-healed lesion of his superficial digital flexor tendon (LF at 30%) *Is currently sound on the leg

-  Back: Is slightly roach-backed. This has no impact on his riding ability

The backstory: 

Gibbs has been in and out of my program since 2023. This war horse with 72 starts had a kind eye and deserved a serious letdown and great restart to match him with the right home. That said, Gibb’s retirement has not gone entirely as planned. 

To briefly summarize: 

In September of 2023, Gibbs made it to my farm (Kivu Sporthorses & Training – then located in McDonough, GA) and on his third day of turnout, cantered around my field while I watched and put a 30% lesion in his left front superficial flexor tendon. I brainstormed what to do and ultimately my vets and I came up with a plan that donated him to a lovely local rescue where they could provide his care. Gibbs stayed at Southern Star Animal Rescue and received all the care he needed including Renovo treatment and shockwave for seven months. After he passed his final ultrasound scan with flying colors, Gibbs returned to me to be restarted. After a few months, I managed to rehome him to a set of good riding, kind folks and the story should have happily ended there. 

However, Gibbs’ feet don’t hold up to full time turnout and he needs individual feeding away from other horses. He had dropped weight and was less than sound (due to his feet, not the rehabbed leg). They kindly shipped him back to me, and we started over. Gibbs has been back with me in New York since September and has packed on the pounds (and the hair- he’s a fuzzy yak!) and his feet have been challenging, but are getting better.  I have hopped on him a few times since he has come home but mostly have been letting him pack on the pounds and start to feel better across his whole body.

 The kiddo feels fantastic currently and is ready for a job!

**PLACED IN A FANTASTIC HOME**