Save a Horse: Rescue and Rehabilitate Mustangs

Dear Supporters, 

This past March, Meadow Ridge School from Alberta, Canada had 22 students and 2 teachers who stayed at WHRC for a project and educational week about America’s Wild Horses and the rescue centre. Thanks to their generous donations, WHRC was able to build a riding arena with the school group’s help. This new riding arena allowed us to be able to host clinics and fundraisers for the centre!

April has been a busy month at WHRC with three different fundraising events. It started with a 2-day clinic with gated horse specialist Michael. This clinic had 9 riders along with their horses who participated in both day’s activities and about a dozen auditors. It was a wonderfully knowledgeable weekend which helped the centre as a fundraiser. We also hosted a clinic with Taylor, an AQHA Professional Horseman on the last weekend in April. This too was very successful with 10 riders and a dozen auditors!

The weekend of April 22^nd we took part in a national event called Help a Horse Day which is part of ASPCA. This was an open house event, where people came out to our centre to meet our horses. This was also a major fundraiser as we had sponsors who had booths at the event. Over 100 visitors came to see the rescue and it was a very successful day for both visitors and volunteers. WHRC set up different stations for the visitors to watch and learn about what we do and why we do it. There was also different horse work, round pen and square pen demos during the day for people to watch some of our horses up for adoption. Another activity was hay waggon rides around our property that recently has been cleared from our palmettos and pine trees. The day ended with raffles and a silent auction!

The following day, April 23, we attended a Native American, Earth Day Festival in Daytona Beach, Florida. This was the fourth year that WHRC has participated at this Earth Day Event. We bring a tame mustang along with a booth. We give demos thought out the day and talk about America’s wild horses and how they come to our centre.

After several months being very busy with all the preparation and events, we are now turning our focus toworking with the horses and doing more riding in our new arena. As the summer is coming, we will also look into improving our sanctuary horses’ fencing, it is so important to finally build our catch pens. This will allow us to be able to handle our wild horses with a squeeze system.  

Warmest Regards,

Diane Delano
President of WHRC