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Three years of patient rehab for this unhappy and dangerous jumper removes layer after layer of problems revealing a safe, happy sport horse.

UNCOVERING theTRUE TALON

By Andrea Haller

Horses have to do with Warmbloods you ask? Actually, nothing, except that behavioral and physical problems can occur with any breed, and since by accident we started to “rescue” horses five years ago, every breed imaginable has filtered through our little horse haven, including Warmbloods. We’re not a charitable organization. We simply

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found ourselves taking in horses that were unwanted and needed rehabilitation, whether their problems were physical or mental. By word of mouth, before we

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Y HUSBAND JOE AND I own Wellborn Quarter

Horses, a 107-acre breeding farm of—you guessed it—Quarter Horses. So what do Quarter

knew it, we were up to 15 horses at one time in some state of rehab at the farm. Joe happens to be a terrific trainer, especially from the ground—our very own horse whisperer if you will—and is very successful breaking through major training and handling issues with horses. So in our five short years of operation, we’ve had a handful of Warmbloods pass through our farm, each one with a variety of problems that were a challenge to solve. We have found over time that there are very few “bad” horses out there. Sometimes they’ve had a bad

experience, but even more often, they are in some sort of pain and they can’t tell us what the problem is. Horses’

reactions to pain can be so extreme that they lash out at

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