I have in the past posted about Sera, our thoroughbred mare we adopted a few months ago. She came from Leighton Farms in Maryland, a race horse rescue farm. A wonderful lady had adopted her from there, then found she did not have the resources to keep her since she was moving away. So we adopted Serenade and are so glad we did. Since I have had her I have found this horse to be very talented. She suffers from the leftover stressors from being a race horse. All this means is that she needs a low-key life style to keep her from being strung out so I can keep weight on her. She is gaining weight very well and keeping it on. Of course, I am not riding her right now either. All I do is lunge her about 3 times a week to keep her in shape.
This is how thin she was when we first got her on the farm. As you can see she is doing very well with her weight gain and health. I keep a blanket on her in cold weather and feed her equine senior to give her the nutrients she needs. She also has access to all the hay she can eat during the day.
Sera is a wonderfully trained horse and can be a low level dressage horse or a jumper. She actually takes the jumps quite well. I will be, hopefully, showing her in the spring. Of course, my daughter will be the one riding her since she is younger, in better shape and less fearful going over jumps than I am. I have really enjoyed this horse and look forward to continuing her training.
Love the blog…. very well done. I never knew it existed and I’m really glad I found it!!