Golden Age Ranch

30/06/2024

When a thoughtful husband chooses to surprise his gorgeous wife with a Trail Ride at Golden Age Ranch and asks us to make it special, we deliver.! Happy Anniversary, thank you for making us part of your memories.

14/04/2024

Welcome to the St Thomas Carnival Season!!! It was our pleasure here at Golden Age Ranch to host the entire princess hopeful procession for a nature photo shoot complete with large sweet animals in the background. I congratulate this lovely poised treasure of the Virgin Islands, Princess Jazmine Samuel!!!!! Keep striving and representing the best of us.

Congratulations to Jazmine Samuel, a 5th grade honor roll student at Joseph Sibilly Elementary School! We are incredibly proud of her capturing the title of 2024 Carnival Princess. Her dedication in academics and community involvement is truly commendable and serves as an inspiration to us all. Keep shining, Jazmine! 🎉🎊

27/01/2024

Exactly

Love your horse, not what they can do.

My horse had to retire this year.
It was unexpected and it changed everything.

But for him, nothing changed.

He still goes out in the field, still gets a nice big fluffy bed, cosy rugs and a carrot every night. He still gets remedial shoes, gets his teeth done and regularly sees a physio.

Nothing changed for him, because he’s not a machine and the level of care he gets is not dependant on what he can do. I loved riding him, but that was a privilege, not a right and certainly not a way for him to “earn” good care.

He’s not a car that can be scrapped or sold on because he can’t do what I want to do anymore.

When you take the reins of a horse, you make a commitment.

A commitment to ensure their happiness and welfare always come first; whether they are jumping big tracks, competing at Grand Prix level, hacking or grazing in a field. Level of competition or ability should not dictate the level of care.

Horses are fragile. They break. They get injured. Soemtimes they have to retire. It doesn’t mean they are any less worthy of your care, attention or money.

Stop giving away, “loaning” or selling your broken down horses because they can’t do what you want them to do and if that means you have to change your plans or put them on pause, then so be it.

Love your horse, not what they can do.

14/12/2023

I recently discovered that one of my horses identifies as a Reindeer so I’m going to support him and let him strut his stuff next week in the X-Mas Children’s parade. See you there!!!

13/12/2023

Let’s see where to start. After three hours and 3 possible drivers and a horse swap we finally got down to Paul M Pearson Gardens just on time to give these kids a thrill of a lifetime. Thank you Partners for Strings, non profit of G-Clef Academy for the invite. Thank you all my volunteers who helped out during the event. It won’t be our last. Golden Age Ranch is keeping it trucking, literally.

01/12/2023

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13/10/2023

Participa de la Conferencia Inaugural sobre Regulación e Industria Hípica. Regístrate hoy en www.eventbrite.com/e/caribbean-racing-and-regulatory-conference-tickets-680987671457 ¡Libre de costo!

¡Te esperamos!

📅 2 y 3 de noviembre
📍 Hipódromo Camarero

20/09/2023

Sometimes being around large animals is kinda scary. We hope to take the fear out of the equation and start your island horse riding experience with a complete horse basics and tack care education on the ground before getting in the saddle and progressing towards total mastery.

Ages 5-99

Donate now to sponsor a child.
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19/08/2023

A bountiful donation today! Thank you Tito de Horseman and Reggie Poe. We have everything we need for the entire week. Come by, Donate a little and get the experience of feeding our horses snacks. They are gentled and sweet, well except for that rascal Hops. All donations go towards our next palette of hay and feed of which it’s crunch time to order. We appreciate all the love.

13/08/2023

More Happy Family Horse Encounter Survivors at Golden Age Ranch! I can’t wait to get more horses so next year mom can ride along too. The little one in pink would ride across the entire country if you let her. That’s why we exist, our purpose. We will be here as long as there are horses that need a forever home, places to roam, friends to make and human hearts to unbreak.

28/07/2023

St Thomas people work very hard to make it in this paradise. We recognize the ones that find the time to help out, donate, pray and follow up. This young woman and her companions did all 4. Thank you!

27/07/2023

These kids brought their energy and attention spans! What a great first lesson! Til we meet again!

26/07/2023

Lovely Family of five visited the ranch. Their spirits instantly took to the horses and the kids got to take turns riding and gaining confidence. Their generous donation of calm energy and learning in joy is what helps to keep us going.

08/01/2023

Birthday Celebrations at GAR are magical!

01/01/2023

Happy New Year to our friends and supporters. We wish you an abundance of joy and happiness. Thank you for your loving support this past year. Our mission to provide compassion and care for horses in need is stronger than ever!

15/12/2022

Merry Christmas! We wish you all an abundance of love, peace and joy.

Our first Christmas at Golden Age Ranch!
December 22, 2010.

20/06/2022

You are never too young (or too old) to ride and groom our gentle horses.

29/05/2022

Lest we forget.... Memorial Day, 2022.

23/04/2022

Cuteness Overload 😂
Izzy, Krystal’s son, is our new exercise volunteer!

14/04/2022

As many have heard, there is a group that want me to dissolve Golden Age Ranch. They want all the remaining horses and I was told will euthanize the horse in the video because he’s in “severe pain”. Does he look so to you?

As an aside, Tiffany Muse who works closely with Dark Horse Stables, stated that they intended to put him down due to a fused fetlock.

08/04/2022

Bling welcoming our latest arrival yesterday!
Today they are the best of friends!
Oops! Spoke too soon. Today Bling made sure he knew who was the boss! We did have a few nicks. Interesting, when our herd was there, Bling was never aggressive.

29/03/2022

More happy visitors/volunteers at the ranch this weekend. We are delighted to see the mutual love between horses and guests.

21/03/2022

Two happy horses free to roll, frolic and run! Barn is always open in case they want stall time or more hay.