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The Wooden Horseshoe Ranch is a nonprofit charity primarily specializing in youth horse camp, boarding facilities, carriage rides, healing horse therapy for those with physical and intellectual disabilities, foster horse care and horse retirement.

10/08/2024

The sky over the ranch last night.

06/07/2024

We are all set up and ready for the 50/50 raffle at the Princeton Speedway tonight. Come buy some tickets and learn about our programs.

06/03/2024

We will be at the Princeton Speedway selling 50/50 raffle tickets this Friday June 7th. Gates open at 530ish, racing starts at 7. Hope to see everyone there, watch the races and learn more about our programs while able to win some money!!!! Must be present to win...Tickets are 1 for $1, 6 for $5, 15 for $10 and we can get creative for higher prices and increasing your ticket chances to win. Sorry no pre-sale tickets available. The winning ticket will be announced during intermission.

05/12/2024

We had a fantastic weekend here on the ranch. We hosted a Confidence Training with Bridle Up with Dennis Auslam. We had 7 people participating in the clinic and they all learned a lot and built amazing relationships with their horse. We also had about 20 people come and spectate throughout the days. There are some already talking about wanting to do another clinic with the horse they brought or a different horse. Everyone had an amazing time and we had beautiful weather. Thank you so much Dennis for coming and to his two volunteers who helped. Attached are some of the pictures from the weekend. We hope to host events and variations like this in the future. Contact us with requests, like saddle fittings, bemer, pemf, equine chiropractor or other interests.

03/20/2024

We are extremely excited to announce the arrival of Snax to The Wooden Horseshoe Ranch!

She is a 17 year old Quarter Horse that loves attention and loves her snacks. She is getting along well with pasture mates Rosie and Tex.

She came to us by referral from someone that has a special place in her heart for Frank and our King. Snax is apart of our retirement and healing horses program.

Please help is welcome this beautiful girl to Wooden Horseshoe Ranch!

02/08/2024

UPDATE: we are pleased to announce that the biopsy results came in and Frank's surgery was deemed corrective. They removed all the cancerous cells and caught it before it spread...again THANK YOU to all that donated to save this big boy! Please let us know if you want to come visit him and his friends.

02/01/2024

Happy to announce Frank's surgery went without complications. He is back at the Ranch and doing well. He does need to have a fly mask on to prevent him from getting anything in the eye and incision. He will be receiving a few days of extra pampering and confined to a stall, but he would be happy to have some visitors. Please let us know if you are interested in coming out to give him some extra love!

02/01/2024

Good morning all! Frank is loaded up and on his way to the eye specialist to have the tumor removed.

Thank you to all those who have donated or shared our fundraiser. It is still open on our gofundme site. All are welcome to come visit him. And if you prefer to donate by check please feel free to come visit him and drop it off or mail it to us.

Also, if you would like to get some Padres Sauce, all proceeds from now until February 15th will be going towards Franks surgery. You can get your sauce here: https://www.padressauce.com/

https://gofund.me/ff4bd093

02/01/2024

Thank you so much to everyone who has donated and shared our post. We greatly appreciate it. Tomorrow is the big day and we will be keeping the link open.

We forgot to put in our post yesterday that if you wish to donate but not through the gofundme site, please feel free to come out to drop it off. It's a great way to come and meet the handsome gentle giant. You can also send us a check by mail.

We appreciate all the support! Thank you!

01/31/2024

Those are all the wonderful things we wanted to share. This next update is a little less wonderful, but very important about one of our retirement horses. A few weeks ago, our vet came out to do a routine appointment on Frank and we asked our vet to look at his left eye as he had some constant discharge. Our vet examined him and found a tumor on his third eye lid. We made an appointment for him with an eye specialist, and it was confirmed to be cancerous. Thankfully it has not spread, but it eventually will if not removed soon. If you know or have met Frank, you know he deserves the chance to retire healthy, happy and pain free. He has an amazing disposition and the definition of a gentle giant.

The cost of his surgery is estimated to be $1,600. Since our revenue is based off of donations, sponsorships, and grants, we do not have the surplus of funds to cover the full cost of the surgery. However, due to the immediate need, we have scheduled the surgery to occur on February 1, 2024. We are asking for your support to help with the costs. Any help, $5, $20 or more is truly and deeply appreciated – every little bit adds up quickly. Since we are a 501c3 non-profit organization, all donations are tax deductible.

We have set up a gofundme fundraiser where you can make a donation and we will provide an updare after his surgery in how he is doing. https://gofund.me/25461509

We also offer company/corporate sponsorships to not only help those in need (our horses and our participants), but also to give back to the community and show your support. See www.woodenhorseshoeranch.org/volunteering-and-sponsorships.html to learn more about our sponsorship program.

In addition, all proceeds from purchases of Padre’s Sauce, today through February 15th, 2024, will go directly towards Frank’s surgery. Visit www.padressauce.com to place your order. Select ‘pickup’ instead of shipping and come meet Frank in person and get your delicious sauces.

We invite any and all to come visit with Frank, or any of our horses, to see what they can do and why this is so important to not only us, but everyone that has interacted with him. We welcome those that know him to post or send us your stories to share with others.

We have volunteer opportunities, team building, or simple group/family outings. Everyone knows the pure physical power of horses, but everyone should know the emotional and caring side of them too. These are amazing animals and deserve that chance to prove it.

Please contact us if you have any questions, would like to schedule a tour and meet Frank and his friends, or would like to participate in our programs. Thank you!

01/29/2024

We are extremely excited to introduce you all to this handsome boy to Wooden Horseshoe Ranch as a retirement horse named Frank.

He is a 26 year old Belgian who came to us from the same carriage company as King. The two of them were buddies. What is amazing and so special is we got Frank on October 3 which is exactly a year from when we got King. We were supposed to get him a little over a week before, but that is when we had our baby, and it was delayed. Frank is also in the same pasture as Dreamer, who was Kings seeing eye horse. 💖

Frank is just as loving and gentle. We are very excited to add him to our therapy horse program.

Please help us welcome Frank to Wooden Horseshoe Ranch.

01/29/2024

A few months ago we submitted an application for a grant to the Minnesota Horse Council to help us build a wheelchair accessible cart that would be pulled by one of our ponies. Last weekend we attended the Minnesota Horse Council annual meeting, as members, and received our grant award. Below is our submission.

The Wooden Horseshoe Ranch was established in 2020 and approved for non-profit in 2022. The primary goal of the organization is to provide a safe home for horses that are no longer able to compete, ride or where the owners are unable to continue care for their horses but can still serve a purpose. For those horses that are able through our horse retirement program, we offer them the ability to give back to those in need by participating in our horse therapy program and for educational purposes through our youth camp program to learn about horses and how to care and handle them safely.

The Healing Horse Therapy caters to those with physical, emotional and intellectual disabilities primarily focusing on Veterans, First Responders and Special Olympic athletes and their families. Through various fundraising events, corporate sponsorships and community donations, this is a free service for our participants and their family.

We are building a wheelchair-accessible pony cart that would allow those with physical disabilities to enjoy, participate and experience driving a cart.

We receive multiple inquiries and lots of interest in being able to provide this service. In 2023, we provided services for 107 participants, 28 were special needs while 4 were wheelchair based. Although they were able to participate in the therapy, we were unable to give them that pleasure and experience.

Attached is a picture of a similar cart we would like build with this grant.

01/28/2024

We are extremely excited to introduce you all to this beautiful girl to Wooden Horseshoe Ranch as a retirement horse name Piper who came to us on November 5th.

She is a 17 year old Quarter Horse who came to us from an owner who previously donated Maggie to us. Piper and Maggie are reunited in the same pasture and loving being back together. Piper is the sweetest and loves to follow us around when we are in the pasture. She is now apart of our therapy horse program.

Please help us welcome Piper to Wooden Horseshoe Ranch.

01/28/2024

We are very excited to introduce you all to this handsome boy to Wooden Horseshoe Ranch as a retirement horse name Tex who came to us on October 5th.

He is around 12 years old and a Thoroughbred ex-racehorse. Tex came to us in a bit of an urgent fashion. We were contacted by his previous owners on October 4th on taking in him and his friend Koda. That night Koda ended up colicing and passed away. The previous owners called us to see if we could come and get Tex right away so he wouldn’t be alone and in pain missing his friend. We moved some things around and went to get him as we know how much horses hurt when they lose their friend and need comfort and support. Humans not only need therapy, horses do as well.

Tex is a very gentle boy that loves all the pets, hugs and kisses. He can do some light riding and is apart of our therapy horse program.

Please help us welcome Tex to Wooden Horseshoe Ranch.

01/27/2024

Hello all!!!! We apologize for not providing updates on our ranch for a while. We had our daughter, and then we had to get ready the ranch ready for winter, and then the holidays hit. But we have some amazing updates to share. We will be doing individual posts for each item which includes: a new member to the ranch, retirement horses, a very special grant we received, and some news.

First up, our new member of the ranch and one of the reasons why we have been delayed in posting.

We are VERY EXCITED to share the birth of our daughter Maggie who was born the end of September. She has already made rounds to see and meet the horses. We can’t wait for her to really spend time with them once it gets a little warmer and learn the ropes.

Mom and baby are doing great!

Address

Dalbo, MN
55017

Telephone

+16122406525

Website

https://www.woodenhorseshoeranch.org/

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