Dancing Hooves Stable & Boarding

12/16/2025

Not sure how I made it without them💙

12/15/2025

It’s beautiful, but cold as a frog’s butt😎

12/15/2025

No colic, no frozen pipes and only one more night till this round is gone🤠

12/14/2025

If 100 people sent 1 dollar that would work. We can all afford that🤠

Y’all are the best! We got her! Trainer pick up is january 17th — this is when trainers gather at the Fairgrounds and pick their horses for 120 days of training and you will be able to follow her progress. She still needs to be evaluated and probably needs chiro (brood mares almost always need adjustments) but she is on her way to being HoHTeamVelvet! 🙌

A longtime volunteer reached out this morning after seeing our struggle to raise funds for Velvet and offered to match up to $100 — even though she’s already given toward her and supports us every time we ask. There are no words to say how much that means to us.

Out of 334,000+ followers, we’re incredibly grateful for the small but faithful group of people who consistently step up and give — again and again — because they truly believe in our mission.

We would love to see: 5 people match her $100, or 10 people give $50, or 100 people give $5. No amount is too small.

If Velvet goes to auction untrained, she won’t be offered as a riding horse. Mares like her are often sent through the loose pen at the end of the night, where horses are weighed and sold by the pound — and horses over 1,200 lbs bring a higher price per pound and are whst buyers seek to fill their load.

Please help us give Velvet a Merry Christmas and a future that isn’t decided on a scale. We have 22 trainers signed up that are chomping at the bit (no pun intended) to give her the kind of training her previous owners failed to give her. 🤍🐴

Velvet will have her own page where you can follow along with the chance to adopt her at the conclusion of the challenge. She won’t be the same mare you see here in this picture — in May, she will be the shining star she was meant to be.

There are many ways to give!
VENMO -
PAYPAL - [email protected]
Or snail mail:
Mississippi Horses
184 Twelve Oaks Road
Canton, MS 39046

12/14/2025

We all survived the temperature drop 🤠💙🤠

12/13/2025

Gloomy day

12/13/2025

You can start looking for your heart horse and watch their progress 💙🤠💙

Welcome to the Heart of the Horse Expo & Trainers Challenge On-line Information Center! Our website is designed to be a hub of information about our organization, our mission, and how you can get involved. We invite you to explore and learn more about our event and how you can participate to make a....

12/13/2025

Good common sense 🤗

With the predicted single-digit temperatures, we're going to take a minute to revisit some "cold weather horsekeeping" tips.

☃️ Do NOT make any sudden changes in feed. Bran mash is not a good, nutritional addition for your horse. Adding warm water to their regular grain ration is a much better option.

☃️ Room temperature water: Either with a tank heater, insulated buckets, or water from your house. An average horse should be drinking 10-12 gallons a day. Dehydration can lead to colic.

☃️ Hay, hay, hay. Digesting hay keeps your horse warm. Hay needs increase in colder temperatures.

☃️ Salt. Salt encourages water consumption. Provide a salt lick, free choice loose salt, or table salt on your horse's feed. *Talk with your veterinarian if you have any questions about feeding your specific horse.

☃️ Wind break. Even if they have the option to go into a barn, many horses will choose to be 'outdoors' in the cold - but they may want a break from the wind and seek out the leeward side of a building or stand of trees.

☃️ Blanketing. Sunday night is not the time to throw a blanket on a horse that's never seen one before. Plan ahead, desensitize, and make sure you have one that fits well to avoid injury. Blanketing takes away your horse's ability to "p**f" the hair coat and self-warm, so if you blanket, make sure the fill is appropriate for the air temperature. Adding a sheet or a 100 gram blanket when it is 8 degrees outside will potentially make your horse colder than he'd be if left alone.

📸 Paisley, who is unamused by the current bipolar weather.

12/12/2025

Electrolytes have been started since Monday. Everyone being put up Saturday night till this passes on🥶

12/11/2025

Save a horse! Any donation helps🤗🤩

UPDATE: Y’all are the best! We got her! Trainer pick up is january 17th — this is when trainers gather at the Fairgrounds and pick their horses for 120 days of training and you will be able to follow her progress. She still needs to be evaluated and probably needs chiro (brood mares almost always need adjustments) but she is on her way to being HoHTeamVelvet! 🙌

Velvet is the perfect example of how a horse can end up being worth more by the pound than as a companion. She’s an 11 year old broodmare who only knows about having babies.

Most people aren’t going to outbid a trader fifteen hundred for a horse who isn’t even halter trained.

Getting her safe and under saddle would take at least three months—and good trainers charge fifteen hundred + per month. So before she’s ever rideable, you’re already looking at a minimum six thousand in expenses.

A kill buyer isn’t going to spend money or effort on vetting, farrier work, bodywork, or chiropractic just to begin training.
And they certainly aren’t going to troubleshoot the lameness or health issues that often appear once a horse starts working.
They’re looking for easy resale riding horses… or horses to fill a slaughter contract.

That’s why horses like Velvet slip through the cracks.

But once a horse enters our system, we give them everything they need. We evaluate them, teach ground manners, and get them safe to handle so they can eventually find a home. So even if we discover she’s not rideable for any reason, she still has a future.

And the only reason we can give this mare a real chance is because we have 22 trainers chomping at the bit (no pun intended) to take on a difficult, at-risk horse and transform them into a safe, valued partner. The most exciting part? You will get to follow her journey.

If you feel led to give Velvet that chance so many horses never get, please see the link on our page. We only have 5️⃣ 4️⃣ 1️⃣ so far to reach 3️⃣ 0️⃣ 0️⃣ 0️⃣. ❤️🙏

12/11/2025

What’s a 10.00 bill going to do? Save a horse🙌

UPDATE: Y’all are the best! We got her! Trainer pick up is january 17th — this is when trainers gather at the Fairgrounds and pick their horses for 120 days of training and you will be able to follow her progress. She still needs to be evaluated and probably needs chiro (brood mares almost always need adjustments) but she is on her way to being HoHTeamVelvet! 🙌

Velvet is the perfect example of how a horse can end up being worth more by the pound than as a companion. She’s an 11 year old broodmare who only knows about having babies.

Most people aren’t going to outbid a trader fifteen hundred for a horse who isn’t even halter trained.

Getting her safe and under saddle would take at least three months—and good trainers charge fifteen hundred + per month. So before she’s ever rideable, you’re already looking at a minimum six thousand in expenses.

A kill buyer isn’t going to spend money or effort on vetting, farrier work, bodywork, or chiropractic just to begin training.
And they certainly aren’t going to troubleshoot the lameness or health issues that often appear once a horse starts working.
They’re looking for easy resale riding horses… or horses to fill a slaughter contract.

That’s why horses like Velvet slip through the cracks.

But once a horse enters our system, we give them everything they need. We evaluate them, teach ground manners, and get them safe to handle so they can eventually find a home. So even if we discover she’s not rideable for any reason, she still has a future.

And the only reason we can give this mare a real chance is because we have 22 trainers chomping at the bit (no pun intended) to take on a difficult, at-risk horse and transform them into a safe, valued partner. The most exciting part? You will get to follow her journey.

If you feel led to give Velvet that chance so many horses never get, please see the link on our page. We only have 5️⃣ 4️⃣ 1️⃣ so far to reach 3️⃣ 0️⃣ 0️⃣ 0️⃣. ❤️🙏

12/11/2025

Horrible. Think about what 5 dollars would mean to a defenseless animal