01/07/2024
Photo by of Mary Elena Moran with her Mustang, Freedom, rescued from a kill pen as a foal. Freedom is now 6 years old and she loves trail riding, liberty, trick training, and obstacle courses.
Come see Mary Elena Moran and her select Superhero Rescue Horses with the EQUUS Foundation and our Guardian and Mentor charities, Rising Starr Horse Rescue, The Equus Effect Program , Endeavor Therapeutic Horsemanship, Inc and more… who are also inspired by her incredible work in giving all horses a chance to shine! She will be appearing at the The Hampton Classic Horse Show with us for the Opening Day ceremonies on Sunday, August 25th and on adoption day, Monday, August 26th, with adoptable horses presented by the .
Mary Elena Moran is a certified mounted police instructor who received her master’s degree in Criminal Justice-Police Administration from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Mary Elena specializes in natural horsemanship, police horse training, and rescue transformations and is a Level 3 Harmony Horsemanship Instructor. Additionally, Mary Elena is a certified practitioner of Equine Facilitated Learning modalities: Natural Lifemanship with a Trauma Focus and Equine Experiential Education. Her passion lies in transforming rescued horses to be police horses as ambassadors of the ultimate rescue transformation. In transforming these rescued horses, Mary Elena has learned that the greatest gifts from the horse have been life lessons in leadership, confidence, kindness, and self-awareness.
“I Believe in You” is my mantra that I have in my heart and is the essence of what I do. Proving the value of a life is my mission, so that others may also believe. I believe that police and therapy horses are the Superheros of the horse world and in transforming a rescued horse into that real life superhero, I believe, is the ultimate rescue transformation.
After seeing the transformation, will others then believe and give the underdog a chance? I hope to inspire it to be so.”
- Mary Elena Moran