Thanks. I would SO love to have a horse refuge. If I could buy the land that we live/rent now, it'd be aweosme to just fence in 50 acres and go down to the auctions and save about 10 horses or so, wouldn't it? At this point, 2 is a nice number for us, and we probably won't breed them again.
These 2 were basically rescue cases. Cuesta was abandoned at my friend's farm, then she sold her to someone else, and that person brought her back months later, emaciated and skeletal. My friend nursed her back to health and we bought her (actually traded a log splitter for her!) in December 2005.
Emma was also dumepd off on my friend. She was barely handled as a youngster, and still has a schitzy and reactive temperament, but we work around that and she is mostly my fiancee's horse; he is so attached to her.