Special Horses, Inc.

They Are All Winners!

colleen — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:02:04 +0000

In late spring horse lovers around the globe begin to think of horse shows and competitions, and of course, the coveted Triple Crown. The finest horses in the world will be in the spotlight for all of us to see. Certainly, the horses participating in these events are winners – just to be entered in either requires a horse of considerable caliber. We would like to take this opportunity to highlight how all horses are winners – in what they give to us, as pleasure mounts, broodmares, therapy horses, retired companions – in all the varied ways that they enrich our lives.

We invite you to submit a photo and a 250 word description that details what you feel makes your horse a “winner.” The cost of registering will be $25 per horse, which also includes a Special Horses “Winners” t-shirt created especially for this event!

It is then up to you to encourage friends and family (at $5 a vote, payable via PayPal on the site) to vote for your special horse. Each participant will have their own page and link to share via email, on Facebook, via Twitter, even in your local news! We will update vote totals nightly and the three horses with the greatest number of votes will win a “Win,” “Place,” or “Show” prize basket.

WIN – A prize basket worth approximately $275!

Certificate for a Troxel helmet – Courtesy of Troxel
Masta Quiltmasta stable blanket (size 78) – Courtesy of Horseloverz.com
Gatsby rope halter – Courtesy of Horseloverz.com
12 7oz containers of Uncle Jimmy’s Squeezy Buns – Courtesy of Uncle Jimmy’s
Farm at Nanticoke Creek Organic Bug Balm – Courtesy of The Farm at Nanticoke Creek

PLACE – A prize basket worth approximately $150!

Masta embroidered flower fleece cooler (size 66) – Courtesy of Horseloverz.com
Gatsby rope halter – Courtesy of Horseloverz.com
Cottage Craft child’s grooming kit – Courtesy of Horseloverz.com
8 7oz containers of Uncle Jimmy’s Squeezy Buns – Courtesy of Uncle Jimmy’s
Farm at Nanticoke Creek Organic Bug Balm – Courtesy of The Farm at Nanticoke Creek

SHOW – A prize basket worth approximately $75!

Cottage Craft pony fleece cooler (size 66) – Courtesy of Horseloverz.com
Gatsby rope halter – Courtesy of Horseloverz.com
4 7oz containers of Uncle Jimmy’s Squeezy Buns – Courtesy of Uncle Jimmy’s
Farm at Nanticoke Creek Organic Bug Balm – Courtesy of The Farm at Nanticoke Creek

The contest is now open and you will have until July 19th, 2010 at 9am EST to submit your entries and get your page out to fans for voting. Your entry will be posted within 24 hours of submission. Please size your photo to less than 200K and name it to match your entry, for example. Your name is Linda Jones and your horse is Dobbin. Please name your horse lindajonesdobbin.jpg. Ready to enter? Enter your info into the form below, your submission will checked for compliance. You will receive an automated reply to your submission that contains the link to complete your entry and pay your $25 entry fee. Your entry will be shown online within 24 hours of receipt of submission. If there is a problem with your submission we will contact you at the email address you supplied on your entry.

Good luck and have fun promoting your horse(s) for such a great cause!

*How To Submit Your Entry*
You need to reduce the size of your image to 200k or smaller. Acceptable image types .jpg and .gif

Images from professional photographers submitted without direct written permissions from the photographer will not be accepted. By submitting your entry to this event you certify that you have the right to distribute these photos and text and that they do not violate the terms of use below.

You represent, warrant and agree that no materials of any kind submitted through your entry or otherwise posted, transmitted, or shared by you will violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or other personal or proprietary rights; or contain libelous, defamatory or otherwise unlawful material.

Special Horses reserves the right to remove any entry it deems unacceptable or that does not suit the spirit of the contest at any time and without warning written or otherwise.

Please fill in all the fields.

Do you accept the Entry Requirements above?(required)

Your Name (required)

Your Address (required)

Your Email (required)

Name of Horse

What Makes Your Horse a Winner? (250 word maximum)

Select your T-Shirt Size (required)

Upload your file (please see note below on image submission)

Special Thanks to

The Special Horses Charity Cookbook!

colleen — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:50:51 +0000

Colleen’s Crab Cakes with Roasted Red Pepper Aioli

Special Horses, Inc. is pleased to announce its new fundraiser! This is certain to be one of the most Tasteful fundraising events ever!

To celebrate receiving our IRS 501c3 non-profit designation, we decided to kick off a unique and exciting fundraising event. With the help of horse lovers and foodies all across the nation we are planning the Ultimate Charity Cookbook for 2010.

What makes this cookbook different from the rest?

We will be collecting submissions for original recipes from all over the US. Only 50 of the very best will be selected for inclusion after being extensively tested in our kitchens and by culinary professionals. The selected entries will by professionally photographed and the authors will receive a copy of the photograph with our thanks.

The deadline for submission is August 30th, 2010, followed by testing and release for the holidays.

Ready to find out more?!?!? Click here!

Adoptable Horse – Garrett

colleen — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:11:51 +0000

Bay TB Gelding – 16.2 hands, 15 years old.
Registered name: Post A Note Sire: Avenue of Flags
www.tierrescue.org

This boy has such beautiful movement! He is kind and so very personable!! He is at the top of scale in herd hierarchy, but not necessarily the alpha. At this time, it is not known whether or not he would be sound for trail riding. Currently, he does not exhibit any lameness at the walk, trot or canter. He is protective of his hock (an injury sustained while racing) and when he lays down to roll he will do so gingerly but he manages to jump up, run off, buck and snort once he has gotten a good roll in.

With Bold Ruler in his bloodlines, how can you pass this one up?

Bluebonnet Rescue Horse Training Challenge

colleen — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:08:43 +0000

The Bluebonnet Rescue Horse Training Challenge is a competition in which volunteer foster homes and professional trainers work with a Bluebonnet Equine Humane Society foster horse for three months (starting in early July 2010) and will show off at the Challenge at the 2009 Bluebonnet Horse Expo on October 16, 2010.

The Challenge is open to any BEHS member who applies to foster and is approved, as well as professional trainers whose property is inspected and approved. If you are not currently an approved foster home or BEHS member, you can join the rescue at www.bluebonnetequine.org/help/joinbehs.htm and download a fostering application at www.bluebonnetequine.org/help/foster.htm and we’ll get you set up to go.

The Bluebonnet Fostering Coordinator and the Challenge organizers will select a pool of eligible horses. Participants will apply to compete in the Challenge by June 15, 2010 and will be able to list their top three choices of a horse to work with. BEHS foster homes may compete with a foster already in their possession as long as no professional trainers have handled the horse in the six months preceding the Challenge Competition (held on October 16 at the Bluebonnet Horse Expo in Austin, Texas). If you wish to compete with a foster horse already in your possession, note that on your application.

The Challenge will include the following divisions:
• Professional trainer – anyone who is paid for their training services
• Experienced foster home – someone who has been a foster home for at least two years
• Novice foster home – someone who has fostered less than two years
• Youth – participants 17 and under as of January 1, 2009.

If a foster home chooses, he/she may pay training fees to a professional trainer for a Challenge-eligible horse. That horse and trainer will then compete in the professional trainer category.

The horses who participate in the Challenge will not be available for adoption until the end of the Challenge. All horses will go up for Adoption the day of the contest. Horses who are not broke to ride will be offered for adoption for $300. Horses who are broke to ride will be offered for adoption for $750. Pre-approved adopters may adopt and take home the horse after the Challenge. If more than one pre-approved adopter wishes to adopt the same horse, they may bid up the adoption fee and the highest bidder will adopt the horse. Adoption applications will also be accepted the day of the Challenge but those adopters will not be allowed to adopt until their property is inspected and approved.

If you are interested in participating in the Bluebonnet Rescue Horse Training Challenge, please email Jennifer at jenn@bluebonnetequine.org for an application.

PS. Only sound and healthy horses will be used in the Challenge. Additionally all participants must be approved as foster homes for BEHS and follow-up visits will be conducted to make sure the horses are doing well in their foster homes and with their training.

Please visit their website at www.bluebonnetequine.org.

Adoptable Horse – Casper

colleen — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:05:04 +0000

Casper is an approximately nine year old, grade gelding. He has a long, flowing mane and tale that make him the envy of every other horse! He has spent time with a professional trainer and learned to walk, trot and canter under saddle. He’s green and spooky, so he needs a confident rider who can complete his training. $350 adoption fee.

www.bluebonnetequine.org

Adoptable Horse – Ginger

colleen — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:59:57 +0000

Ginger is a five year old chestnut Arab/Welsh cross standing approximately 14.2. She stands quietly on crossties, is excellent for the farrier, and will allow you to do just about anything with her once you tell her what you want.

Although not broke under saddle yet she has been bridled (rubber snaffle) and a saddle (close contact) has been on her back with the girth slightly tightened. She excels at reading body language and could be a wonderful project pony for a child who enjoys teaching a horse tricks and having fun on the ground. She would be fabulous for Pony Club or endurance riding! From morning till night she is on the go looking for something to do, whether it be playing with the other horses or trying to roll rocks around with her nose.

Although she is a firecracker, if you put her feet and brain to work she calms right down and will try to figure out what you want out of her and she will do her best to get it right.

Ginger has great potential to be a wonderful pony whatever your discipline. Come spring if she is still with NEER she will be started under saddle training (H/J).

Contact Becky for more info… becky.partridge@netzero.net
to see more horses available for adoption through NEER visit www.newenglandequinerescues.com

Adoptable Horse of the week – Teddy

colleen — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:26:19 +0000

Teddy is available for adoption! 14 year old TB gelding. 16 hands. (JC name, Roving Eye, by Silver Deputy). Teddy requires someone experienced with OTTB’s. He is companion only, he is not sound. Requires shoes on the front and a low starch diet. Excellent manners, he trailers, clips and bathes. But he does have some quirks.Jigs, a neglected 4 yr old who arrived lice infested, untrained, and a stallion, has started training.

Please contact Heart Land Horse Rescue for more information about Teddy heartlandhorserescue.org

AND A BIG THANK YOU TO UNCLE JIMMY!!

colleen — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:32:56 +0000

Sadly, one of Uncle Jimmy’s horses was grinched in the Chronicle of the Horse Forums Horse Treat Secret Santa. We volunteered to be a degrincher, and was assigned Uncle Jimmy. But what Uncle Jimmy had planned to do – since, after all, his horses are hardly lacking for treats! – was donate whatever was sent to him to a less fortunate horse – one at an equine rescue. And, knowing that the needs of rescue horses may be unique, he offered instead to donate a very generous check to one of the Special Horses Inc. participating groups! But how to choose when they are all deserving? The names went into a hat, and one name was fished out by Uncle Jimmy, which was Sunkissed Acres.

SO, A BIG THANK YOU TO UNCLE JIMMY!

Please visit the Uncle Jimmy’s website at www.uncle-jimmys.com

Adoptable Horse Of The Week – Jigs!

colleen — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:05:55 +0000

Jigs, a neglected 4 yr old who arrived lice infested, untrained, and a stallion, has started training.

Attached is a video of his first time with a rider on the lunge line. Jigs is available to a home that will continue his training. He is shy of 14 hands, UTD, and loves attention.

Jigs is available through New England Equine Rescues www.newenglandequinerescues.com

How You Can Help!

colleen — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:19:57 +0000

The one phrase we hear more than any other is “I would love to help but I have no money”.

Let us share with you just how valuable you are with no cash whatsoever.

*Write a creative little certificate to your favorite rescue or an email with a committment.
*Take a day to email a few of the hundreds of equine suppliers to send outdated items, returns, promos, gift packs etc. to the rescue.
*The donation of a day or two a year in which to sit down and write thankyou letters and print them off for a rescue.
*A day or two a year that you can give to go and organize or clean a feed room.
*You can check out the internet and find the various groups and foundations who do donate to animal organizations. Take a rainy day to do this and then forward your information.
*Hold a yard sale with proceeds to go to your favorite rescue. It need not be at the holidays. These horses eat year round so send a promisary note for one to be held next year and then announce it.
*Hold a concession at a show you know you can work. Put out a donation can somewhere or a collection at work, any time of the year is good. Just make a committment.
*Have a candy dish at workand have people donate thir change in exchange for the goodies, and then every few months send the funds collected.
*Ask your local vet if you can put a donation can at their clinic for x amount of months and then print a flyer with it. What you can’t give, someone else might be able to.

You are all worth a lot more than you realize. You have more power than you can ever dream. So, short of cash, no problem. Giving of yourself is the greatest gift and seeing the returns from what some of these very simple ideas can bring, will amaze you.

The following groups, and many more, have participated in Special Horses, Inc. promotions.

AC4H

Bluebonnet Equine Humane Society
CANTER – California
CANTER – Illinois
CANTER – Mid Atlantic
CANTER – New England
CANTER – Ohio
Crosswinds Equine Rescue
Finger Lakes Thoroughbred Adoption Program
Heartland Horse Rescue
New England Equine Rescues
Sunkissed Acres
True Innocents Equine Rescue

Questions? Contact us! And thanks!