REIN Rescue

12/21/2025

The horses were so excited to welcome my nephew and his family to the farm for the Christmas spirit! The kids just loved it!

12/20/2025

******** Fedora update *********
As we close out the year I thought I’d give an update on how the fiesty fabulous black filly Fedora is doing. You may recall I (Jane) started helping out at REIN in January after retiring from big corporate and it wasn’t long before this opinionated strong willed and often really not easy filly adopted me! I didn’t need another horse. I didn’t want a filly and certainly not a Dutch Harness Standardbred Amish bred buggy horse.

Well in March I brought her home to our farm Aintree. Fast forward nine months. She is great in our herd of geldings. She loves to work, she’s learnt respect patience and partnership. Fedora has become a love bug ❤️ She is doing lovely groundwork and I am riding her but given she’s still just three, just once a week I get on and walk her around the arena about ten minutes. I pony her around the property. Twice I took her to the local FENCE equestrian center just for experience. She has huge personality, she’s a lot of horse, and it’s a fine balance to keep that and allow her to be herself while still having a horse safe and enjoyable to work with, ride etc.

She has grown into a 16hh tank. Beautiful mover but I’m working on making sure she learns to stretch and move properly through her back. Given her confirmation and uphill build it would be too easy to skip steps and have a pretty mover who actually isn’t moving in a way that is long term sustainable and can advance to higher levels of whatever we do. She loves obstacles, poles and popping over xc jumps on a lunge line.

Who knows what the future holds for us …. Fedora could excel at almost anything given her size, confirmation and mind. REIN gave Fedora such a wonderful foundation to build on.

It’s been a fun 2025 working with my filly Fedora plus all the wonderful horses at REIN. A big thanks to Joy and all the volunteers who generously give so many hours to these horses. Until you work with feral horses and wild mustangs you have no idea how much time, patience and skill is needed to gentle and train them. But it’s incredibly rewarding and the horses need us!!!

From all of us at REIN Rescue and Fabulous Fedora we wish everyone a wonderful holiday season and all the best for a great 2026 🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂

12/18/2025

Brave babies!
Kelton and Kalusa, weanlings, have recently been gentled and halter trained, and love their blankets in the cold snaps. Maisie, a wild mustang yearling recently joined them and very quickly decided she liked people and fun stuff, as well as her blanket and just loves being groomed. You may have seen posts about all the newer arrivals bravely exploring the barn interior. This past week was big for the babies venturing into the big arena, Kelton being the first - he is so darn cute. The next day Kalusa also happily walked around the arena playing with obstacles then yesterday Maisie, who was rather nervous, followed babysitter mustang Justin and her pasture mates and fun was had by all. Well done Kelton, Kalusa and Maisie!

This is a huge step forward in the advancement of their training!!

We take it really slowly, building trust, curiosity and confidence. This foundation provided at REIN Rescue is amazing and makes these horses very adoptable into forever homes.

It’s incredibly rewarding but couldn’t be done without the endless hours our volunteers spend helping these horses learn to thrive in a people world - you are all very much appreciated!!! As are the donors who help financially support these wonderful horses.

REMINDER… if you would like to donate or sponsor a horse, please go to www.reinrescue.org

12/18/2025

Everyone’s getting into the people’s world action. Mikey and Mack decided the babies were brave enough to step into the outside world, so they were ok to try it! Going slow truly pays off!

12/16/2025

This is a blow to Mustangs getting to be known in a wider audience. We at REIN Rescue are now, more than ever, committed to showing what these amazing horses are capable of doing in the English disciplines.

We’re saddened to share that due to BLM funding changes, the 2026 Mustang Classic and Mustang Challenge will be canceled.

We know how disappointing and frustrating this is—especially for those who have already registered, adopted horses, or begun preparing. Please know we share in that disappointment, and we are truly sorry.

The good news is that Mustang Magic will continue as planned at the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo, and we hope it can still bring our community together in a meaningful way.
Thank you for your understanding, your passion, and your unwavering love for America’s mustangs. ❤️

12/10/2025

Monday we posted day one of our explore the barn game with the babies and 2 yr old Lady Gaga. They had a blast and taught themselves a lot, let their curiosity soar and learned to solve puzzles they encountered. It was such a success we decided to add some more challenges and even let the “M” group boys, Mikey, Moe and Mack, plus Liam, Lucky and Leila, have a turn in pairs. Keep in mind none of theses horses had ever gone into a barn aisle in the life. They were amazing!

12/08/2025

Today is rather cold and wet, so it seemed like a good time to go about our normal chores inside, but with a twist. We invited Kelton, Kalusa, Maisie and even Lady to join us. They had a great time exploring the barn and watching us work. Keeping in mind the barn aisle is where the scary monsters are supposed to be hiding. The horses had a fantastic time exploring at their own pace. Then, Mikey and Liam said it was there turn. They have just moved to the barn and never been in the aisle.

12/07/2025

REIN’s Lucy (formerly Daniella of the “D” group) is doing so well with her mom, Christina Fisher-Hensley, she gets to spend the winter in Ocala while Christina is showing on the World Equestrian Center winter series. We at REIN Rescue can’t wait to follow along and we hope you will join us!

12/07/2025

During our August cool off event, Kathy Danneman was the lucky winner of the silent auction prize of three days working with REIN Rescue and our horses. Kathy had to postpone until now due to an injury, but she and her husband, Terry, were out yesterday working with Susan Hancock and Icon. We are thrilled to have Kathy out to learn more about listening to horses and Icon also agrees!