Evenstar Farms

05/19/2024

We have 2 rare retirement openings! 1 pasture and 1 stall with all day turnout.

11/23/2023

08/25/2023

Why do we bed with straw?

⭐️Studies have found that horses sleep deeper and better on straw vs shavings.

⭐️ Horses eat slower when bedded with straw thus keeping their gut filled steadily which decreases risk of colic.

⭐️ There is less dust with straw which improves the air quality of the barn.

07/30/2023

The handsome Samsonite one of our longterm retired residents owned by the Morris Family. Isn't he stunning?!

07/17/2023

What a fun Summer in the Rockies!
Colara picture perfect as always 😍

06/24/2023

Colara looking picture perfect in the 1.30 this week❤️

📸 Captured Moment Photography

05/18/2023

Our stunning pasture views 😍

03/25/2023

Somewhere in the world, a future Olympic champion is a foal out in a field. He’s ewe-necked, sickle-hocked, downhill and shaggy, with a club foot and a chunk of mane missing, because his buddy chewed it off.

Somewhere in the world, there’s a young horse that everyone says is too short to make it big. In three years, he’ll be jumping the standards, but right now he’s fat and short and no one is paying him any mind.

Somewhere in the world there’s a 7-year-old who can’t turn right, and a 10-year-old who has not shown the ability to put more than two one-tempis together without losing it, and a 14-year-old who hasn’t yet reached his peak, and all of them will be at the next Olympic Games.

Somewhere else in the world, there’s a rider who is thinking of packing it in. Maybe the bills are getting out of control, or she’s killing herself to get enough help in her own riding development because she’s having to spend all her time riding and teaching to make ends meet and change needs to happen, and she’s wondering if it’s worth it. She’s thinking it’s time to just give up and be a local trainer, to shelve her dreams of international competition. And then she’s going to shake off the doubt, double down, and make a team in the next 15 years.

Somewhere in the world, one of the next great team riders is 9 years old and couldn’t tell if she was on the right posting diagonal if her life depended on it.

Somewhere in the world there’s a future team rider who just got told that she’ll never make it because she’s too chubby, because she’s too short, because she’s too late.

There are horses who will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars that will never amount to anything, and there are horses who will be touted as the Next Big Thing only to be never seen or heard from again, and there are horses who will fly under the radar until suddenly they’re setting the world on fire.

There are riders who will win Junior and Young Rider competitions only to quit riding completely, riders who will be touted as the Next Big Thing only to get stuck in their comfort zones and never come to fruition, and there are riders who will make their first Olympic team at 50, at 55, at even older than that.

And yes, there are the horses that will be brilliant from day one, and there are the riders for whom success both comes early and stays late. But more often than not, history has shown that the unlikely story, the horse who was passed over in favor of his more expensive stablemate, the rider who no one saw coming, is the more likely path to greatness.

Credit and written by Lauren Sprieser at Chronicle Of The Horse

03/23/2023

06/22/2022

A must read for those who can no longer care for your senior horse.

We are asked almost daily if we can take in someone’s older horse that they can no longer keep or care for. We get calls asking if we can take the navicular mare, the old blind pony, the 35 year old gelding that can’t hold weight. I always tell them how no one will ever love their horse like they do, and that the best place for it is with them, even if it means having it euthanized.

I want to share this experience because it has helped me see euthanasia in a different way. In the picture you can see a backhoe in the back of the pasture. This is our 80 acre sanctuary that can have up to 40 horses, most waiting for a spot with a trainer, but several that are not adoptable. The volunteer in the picture is leading two horses to be put down, one with heaves, the other DSLD. Two horses had already been put down and are lying next to the hole. Sounds horrific right, to think their buddies are there watching. It was muddy and the field we usually bury horses was unaccessible so we didn't have a choice. I don't handle euthanasia very well but who does right? The grulla mare in this picture was especially hard for us. She was totally wild and untrusting when we first got her over a year ago. We had finally earned her trust and she had become one of the sweetest and first to greet us. She trusted us, so how could we do this to her? She had heaves through the summer and we had discussed trying to move her up north but she's older, untrained....we made the decision to let her go.

This is the part I want to share. We walked the horses down to where the vet waited. All the horses by that time had gathered around and were busy checking out the vet's truck, the back hoe, some were grazing, but none seemed to know or care what was going on. Those that we handed over to the vet were calm as well. He sedated them, they went down just as if they were going to have a procedure. Then the medication was administered. They went to sleep. The grulla's best friend is the black horse that’s following her in the picture. As her friend was sedated, she continued to graze, no fear or concern for her friend. Another horse on the list with ring bone gimped over to me as we watched a horse be pts. I scratched his neck and loved on him. The vet handed me the halter and he continued to just stand there as I put it on. The vet sedated him and like the others, he just went to sleep. It occurred to me that this was so peaceful because they trusted us, they were in their safe place, not at a vet clinic or at an auction somewhere. I've seen horses euthanized that were severely injured or frightened and it was a traumatic experience for all involved. They are hypersensitive to what’s going on around them and it’s like they know. These horses did not. There was no fear. That is what gets to me the most about horse slaughter. Imagining the concern they have as their buddy goes before them in the chute, the horror is incomprehensible. If only they could all be saved the cruel treatment that horses endure beginning at auction. Letting them go peacefully where they feel safe is ultimately the best gift we can give them.

If your horse is advanced in age, unsound, or infirm, and you can no longer keep it, please consider one last gesture of caring.... letting it leave this earth in the comfort and serenity of its home.

06/16/2022

Welcome to the barn family little ones! Our new future mouse hunters.

05/29/2022

Fun in Kentucky!

02/14/2022

Dr Kari will be out March 1st! Haul ins are welcome, please let me know if you would like to get on her list that day. She is incredible!

01/16/2022

What a great way to wrap up National Western Stock Show 2022! Colara was absolutely perfect as always.

01/07/2022

Split Rock Fort Worth. This mare is incredible.

12/16/2021

Our first show together!

12/01/2021

Colorado Sunrise