Polo Pony Rescue

12/26/2025

Mudslide, now Zesty - by Erin and Sariah in September 2024! We are going to wind down this year showing you follow up pictures of our adopted horses. Let us know if there’s one in particular you would like to see!

12/25/2025

Loved seeing this pic of horse Rocket (on the left) come across my feed this Christmas morning! Rocket was adopted in July 2023. He has a happy home with his friends and his new mom Evelyn in the Tehachapi area. ❤

12/25/2025

12/22/2025

Unfortunately, the story detailed below is extremely common and it is the reason that you see all of us traditional rescues begging you not to donate to the kill pen brokers. Please, if you are going to donate, send that donation somewhere it will actually help horses. Send it somewhere that is not scamming. It doesn’t have to be us! It could be LTH. It could be The Golden Carrot. It could be Falcon Ridge. Just send it somewhere that isn’t fundraising for horses they don’t even have! And yes they ALL do this crap. We have been watching it for over 20 years. There are no good kill pen brokers and I will die on that hill.

12/17/2025

Beautifully written!

This is what many people don’t want to deal with: aging, the slowing down and the extra steps it takes each day to keep an older horse going. It’s sitting in the barn long after the rest of the chores are done, waiting patiently while they work through their warm mash, knowing their teeth aren’t what they used to be and their body needs more time than it once did. It’s listening to the steady sound of them chewing while the world slows down around you. It’s realizing that what used to take minutes now takes patience.

It’s watching joints stiffen on cold mornings and standing there longer than planned, giving them time to loosen up before asking anything of them. It’s layering blankets just right, checking weather reports more closely than ever, adjusting and readjusting because comfort matters now more than convenience. It’s scooping supplements, soaking feed, scheduling farrier visits more carefully, and noticing every small change, because the small things matter most.

It isn’t always easy. Some days it’s exhausting. Some days it hurts to see the years written so clearly on a body that once felt unstoppable. But they gave you everything they had. They gave you their best year, their strength, their soundness, their heart. They carried you when they didn’t have to. They trusted you without hesitation. They showed up on days when you didn’t deserve it and forgave you when you made mistakes. They taught you patience, courage, and humility long before they ever needed it in return. They gave without question or complaint.

So when their steps slow and their needs grow, this is where we show who we really are. This is where love looks like time, like consistency, like choosing them even when it’s inconvenient. Love looks like staying late, spending more, doing more, and asking for nothing back.

The least we can do is give them patience, kindness, and dignity in their twilight years. To make sure they are warm, comfortable and safe. To let them age without fear or neglect, surrounded by the same care they gave us so freely.

Because they carried us.
Because they earned It
Because they deserve nothing less.

12/14/2025

Those of you who have set up a horse property from scratch - what would you tell folks who are about to do that? One of our board members just bought her first horse property, which came with fairly minimal horse facilities and she's going to be putting in a barn, fencing, feed storage, etc.

This is a flashback of what I started with! I would say my #1 thing to think about is an intelligent layout that makes things like feeding, mucking, getting a vet truck near a sick horse, feed deliveries, etc. easy. I have seen so many horse properties that look like they were laid out by drunk squirrels. A design where you have to walk in with loose horses to feed is going to be a problem the first time you are sick or out of town, for example. You'll also regret any design where you have to do things on foot instead of by golf cart/ATV the first time you get hurt. You'll be so happy if you just make things easy for yourself, and if you sell the property, it will be more attractive to buyers if it's designed with convenience and ease in mind.

What else would you tell a first-time farm owner about how to set things up?

12/13/2025

I said we weren't adopting out anymore but I'm making an exception for this awesome foster fail -- Carisa with Jerri! Jerri went over there just to keep her mare company a few months back. They were still looking for a rideable horse at that time. But these two really bonded the point where Carisa reached out to find out if Jerri could become a permanent member of the family, even though she's just a pasture pet, and of course I said yes.

So Merry Christmas Jerri - you have your very own family now!

12/04/2025

25 year old Skippy eating his morning mush. He is a very sloppy eater so he has a trough under his bucket to catch what he drops so that he can still eat it! Skippy lost his lifelong home due to no fault of his owners this summer. He wasn’t a polo pony, but he really needed help so we squeezed him in. He would love a sponsor! (Previous owners are in their 80s so cannot help). If you would like to sponsor Skippy, head to our website at poloponyrescue.com and click on how to help to set up a recurring monthly donation. ❤️

12/02/2025

I’m just going to let our seniors speak for themselves. This video has ages 24 to 31 in it and this is how they look and move living with us. If you like seeing that as much as we do, please consider a donation to help us keep doing it!

12/01/2025

We're just a day away from and I am lodging a formal complaint.

That slacker who runs this place has been off "working" again and as a result, there is no plan for the biggest fundraising day of the year. Other charities have been implementing 30 day strategic plans for this special day, but what is our leader doing? Running around showing houses to people - some of which aren't even horse properties. Pretty useless, if you ask me.

Clearly we need to have a better fundraising plan in place, because I am not a small horse, and I like to eat. Do you see my butt? That is a J-Lo butt, and I like it that way. I am a living representation of what an OTTB should look like, here to end the stereotypes and shut down the people who say it's normal for us to be ribby. It's not just that I like to eat - it's part of my job description!

So, despite this last minute appeal at 11:35 PM on a Sunday night, I hope that you'll remember Polo Pony Rescue in your donation list. She's not worth much as a so-called executive director, but she does get up early and feed us every day so I'll give her that. Let's keep the hay bags and the daily lunch mush coming for me and all of my friends! You can donate at the Facebook link, direct to us at www.paypal.me/poloponyrescue or Zelle to [email protected]. You can also swipe for the Venmo QR code.

11/28/2025

Daphne, dozing away, without a care in the world that she's destroyed a $60 blanket.

If you want to get the ponies a present for the holidays, I've updated our Wish List with the things we need most. There's something for everyone at every price range!

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3OVXZYCOW7JKR?ref_=wl_dp_add_item_to_list

11/26/2025

Sunny work day here at Polo Pony Rescue! We had a ton of rain and realized that we needed to do some serious work on the roads inside the farm. Today they are being scraped and leveled out and then we are going to be adding some gravel so that we are not a slushy mess the next time the rains come. Thank you to Salvador for his great work maintaining our property! If you are in the AV and need help with tractor work, concrete, fencing or just about anything else, message us, and we will pass along his phone number.