Saving Grace Farm

11/09/2024

A few of our favorite Oak Grove Unicorns!!

11/09/2024

Big barn crew here at Equine Affaire tonight! Fantasia show after a great day of clinics!! 🤠🎉

11/07/2024

We are sure enjoying this stretch of warm weather here at the farm! 😎🤠

11/06/2024

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Sooo accurate....😂😂😂

10/21/2024

10/15/2024

Aww…sweet Fawn, you will be missed. Rest in peace. ❤️

10/15/2024

It is a good thing I took pictures, not sure I would still believe it was real. The rest of my trip to Colorado in pictures. 🥰😍

10/05/2024

Day one in the books! Cattle sorting, clinics with Julie, obstacles, and trail riding with insane views. Yeah, this is not getting old anytime soon! 😉

10/04/2024

After a few days of exploring the amazing state of Colorado, we are at the C Lazy U Ranch in Granby ready to learn from the great Julie Goodnight! 🙌🏻👏🏻 Guys, I think I just found heaven! 😍

09/30/2024

We will have one available spot opening up for full board as of October 1. Please contact the farm for more info.

09/23/2024

Back to Basics Clinic 2 on this beautiful day! When you have great horses and great people, the results are just awesome!!🤩

09/20/2024

Here is just a sample of some of the things we will be working on for our Sunday, September 22, from 1-4. Highly recommend this for all lessors and boarders!!

09/17/2024

A few more pics from our Ladies’ Night! ♥️🤠

09/17/2024

Our first SGF Ladies’ Night was food for the soul! Stay tuned for more of these for sure! Such a lovely group of ladies! 🥰

Special thanks to Kate Preftakes Photography for these lovely photos!

Photo collection by Kate Preftakes Photography

09/17/2024

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“That can’t be true… every horse I know looks like that!”

“That can’t be true… my professional trainer said —“

When people are exposed to the reality of horse stress and how extreme and prevalent it is in the industry, denial is usually their first stop.

Accepting the fact that many common horse behaviours are actually stress signals means admitting to yourself that a huge portion of horses you’ve interacted with have been stressed.

Accepting the reality of how certain coercive and harsh equipment works means acknowledging that you caused the animals you loved pain in order to gain their compliance.

Accepting just how entrenched all of this is in equestrian culture means overturning the face of the horse world as you know it.

Denial is a lot easier than having to look at years worth of experience and learning and to admit that you’ve been led astray.

It’s a lot easier to believe that the people who expose problems are just extremists.

That they’re just liars, tree hugging hippies or “pony patters.”

That they have an ulterior motive that has nothing to do with desire to improve horse welfare.

Because the scary alternative is admitting the extent to which you’ve been taught misinformation.

Admitting this means having to kickstart a very scary unlearning and relearning journey.

One that will change you forever.

Because once you see it, you can never unsee it.

And that realization is full of a ton of grief.

Grieving the utopian version of the way you believed things to be, having to admit that much of what you were taught of the “horse-rider bond” was an idealized fallacy.

It’s a hefty undertaking.

But a worthy one.

The sad reality is this:

A lot of the behaviours studied and shown to be correlated with horse stress are commonly seen.

The common occurrence of them does not make them normal or healthy behaviours.