Stall 13 Horses

Good god this horse has talent. He has huge swinging gaits, tons of drive, and all the flash you’d ever need. But even with all that talent, his personality might be the more remarkable thing, and thats saying something.

Fig is a total ham through and through. You never have to guess what he’s thinking and he really, really wants all of your attention. No, like all of it. All the time. Good thing he’s insanely cute about the whole thing. He’ll drink your beer (he shares my preference for not fruity IPAs) and harass you until you relent and give him scratches and lots of love. 

Under saddle hes is always good but he’s uncomplicated and quiet if in regular work or… as he feels better and better and isn’t getting ridden regularly-  big, talented and slightly feral. He has at times been my “toss anyone up there” horse. Yesterday, he showed off how much better he was feeling by honing his medium trot but also making sure we tossed a neck strap on to stay with him. His gaits are huge and he will invert and skitter sideways if he’s feeling fresh. He’s never truly naughty but he does like to show off. 

Recent flat school on an “up” day: https://youtu.be/vPA_8JqrmuU?si=EoxzaiVuv6K5lKnH

Fig is still a bit of a rehab. When he came off the track, he was frankly one hell of a mess. More than a year later, we have him fat, happy and en route to sound. He needs strength and potentially hock and hind ankle injections (but I want to get him strong first). He was diagnosed with chronic suspensory issues initially, but at this point with no acute lesions and less inflammation we go back to work. And what does Fig love almost as much as attention? Work.

So what does that mean? Means he’s not your average rehab. It means he’s not the lovely adopter’s horse who wants to have an easy hack out on occasion… maybe hit the trails once in a long while. No. Nopelope. Sorry. I need a rider who wants to put a lot of miles in the saddle but with no agenda. The right person needs ride regularly (like 3+ days a week) and has OTTB experience and a big sense of humor … and maybe bigger beer budget (for both of you). Oh and said rider also needs the seat to laugh through any fresh-day antics he might toss out there and direct him towards the great things that are to come. Don’t have all of that? Please ask me about a different horse. 

Fig is available for the low fours- with a guarantee that as with any Stall 13 horse, no questions asked- he can always come home. 

STALL 13 SUPPORTED HORSE

Fig is available through Stall 13, the New York based non-profit organization (www.stall13.org) that I (AP Graham) spearhead alongside Kivu Sporthorses. Stall 13 Thoroughbreds specializes in challenging-case horses like Fig. Our goal is to help horses like Fig can recover and make it to second careers and have a good life, despite physical setbacks. 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 tough case ottbs and prove the notion that one should always “ride the horse, not the xrays (or ultrasound). Reach out for more information.

former info: 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 at 2500 with 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. 

Stay tuned for more info on "Tuna"

Update 1/26/2026

Date's made it out of quarantine without a hitch and into the main barn. There, we're still treating his severe scratches and dealing with some hind limb edema when stalled. That said, Aubrey had a chance to hop on after he got a new set of shoes. The ride went as expected - he's talented, kind, and has a hell of a lot of heart. 

Unsurprisingly, Dates made the cut as Stall 13's Makeover Hopeful for the year. Aubrey will continue his training for the next ten months and with any luck, they'll make it to Lexington in October to event or do whatever it is that Dates seems to enjoy most. We'll be posting updates on his "Dates to the Makeover"  page here. See button below! 

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Datesfreedom, like Wine Responsibly, had a bit of a rough go right off the track. After running 52 times and retiring sound, he sold off the track to a home that moved him to NJ and then within a week or two he was sold into a trader's farm in KY where horses are sold to auction and slaughter. 

Stall 13 bailed Dates from the KY facility on December 23rd, and on the 29th, Dates arrived at Kivu Sporthorses (home of Stall 13) in a blizzard. The good kid trekked out to quarantine and has been lovely since. 

We're working on getting him back in a better weight, deworming him, and working to heal the hellish scratches / lacerations he came with on the back of his ankles. 

Thus far, Dates has been in good health and spirits. He's kind and loves attention and is always happy for a handful of carrots or a good grooming. 

Dates will be in quarantine (assuming a continuation of good health) until January 19th. At that point, he will join the other Stall 13 horses in the main barn and will get restarted under saddle. 

Stay tuned for more updates on Datesfreedom. 

Placed

Update 1/26/2026

Wine has found his next long-term home! And better yet, he'll be (hopefully) heading to the Makeover to take on Ranch and Trail or Freestyle. We'll be rooting for him the whole way and sharing his progress as he goes! YAY, Wine!!!!

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Track -> sale into his second career as a trail horse --> kill buyer and pen -> bailed by the community;  quarantining and rehabbing with Stall 13 at Kivu.

Update 1/6/2026 Wine is now back in the main barn and has had his first post track ride! He's fantastic in turnout, kind and friendly in the barn and was a total gentleman for his first ride. Stay tuned for more images, video and updates!

Update 12/21/25: Wine has been doing great in quarantine. He's packing on the pounds and has stayed healthy throughout! Huzzah! The shed with the attached round pen has done well, despite the bloody cold and he's been happy and toasty despite the NY chill. 

The great thing is that Wine gets to come back to the Kivu barn (a walk that will take all of two minutes) on Christmas Eve. I am super excited to introduce him to the herd and let him have friends and a more normal (less feral) life. Here's to your next chapter, wine. Cheers. 

Stay tuned for more information here. 

Update 12/2/25 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.

Wine has been doing great in his custom-built (quickly) quarantine run in. He has plenty of shavings and straw to stay warm and out of the wind, and enough foot of electrical cord to reach his heated bucket. He's been happy and healthy since arrival (huzzah!) though, he's making it clear that he's ready for friends and has had enough of the solitary life. 

We're hopeful that Wine can re-enter the regular barn after 21 days of quarantine, making his barn appearance a Christmas celebration.

Wine's road is not done when his quarantine is. We'll need to X-ray his knees and evaluate his soundness to start. Donations are very helpful at this stage to help him get the diagnostics needed to make a plan for a healthy, productive future. 

Wine will be available for adoption once we get him going and know the extent of his needs.

Placed! Gen is ready to find his human and hit the trails or bee bop around as a low level all around mount. 

Walk trot-inside (Big horse, tiny arena = no canter inside right now, see outside video for that): https://youtu.be/nywGpko23RY?si=EKPEc6dl68l7B5mg

Mounting from a tractor, hacking and some canter outside: https://youtu.be/_fm03iv7hNQ?si=Jbl36b2oOvugDMCN

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 and on the other side of the spectrum, not asked to jump a ton. 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 2500 to a  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**