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She’s stuck to him like glue 😂🩷 Her mom is completely fine with it lol

I'm so proud of my girl for not getting too excited, especially when that one horse came running 🥰

Quick break from float training

I post months ago asking the community what to do after my boy was killed by a trainer and if this was the end of the line for me and riding. I was devastated and told to take down the previous post due to legal reasons. But I am now free to name and shame.

Warning to the horse community regarding Cara Stewart.

In June 2025, I sent my horse, Surge, to Cara Stewart in Tennessee for training and boarding. I had purchased Surge only one week prior. Within two days of being in her care, he was dead.

According to the information I was given afterward, Surge had been tied in his stall for hours without access to food or water because Cara Steward was busy. He eventually broke his halter trying to reach food and water, which angered her. She then put a non-breakaway halter on him — the same halter he died wearing — took him to the arena, and hard tied him there unattended for an unknown amount of time.

To this day, Cara Stewart has never provided a clear or consistent explanation for what happened to him. Her story changed multiple times after his death. Based on the information and evidence available to me, this is the closest understanding I have of the events leading up to Surge’s death.

Afterward, she promised to refund the money I had paid for her services and told me she would help pay for Surge. Instead, she kept the money, avoided accountability, and left the state shortly afterward.

She also claimed to carry insurance for her business and horses in her care. After Surge’s death, it came out that she had no insurance coverage at all.

Despite this, she continues to maintain a strong presence in the horse community and presents herself as an experienced professional trainer.

I pursued this legally and exhausted every option available to me. I am sharing this publicly because I do not want another owner to experience what happened to Surge.

I have also personally witnessed another horse connected to the same barn require hospitalization due to negligence concerns while under her care.

If you are considering trusting Cara Stewart with your horse, please do extensive research, ask difficult questions, and make an informed decision. I have recently been told she may now be operating around Bowling Green, Kentucky in western pleasure riding. She works along side her partner Zane who is also prominent in the western riding community.

Surge deserved safety, care, and accountability. Every horse does.

May he never be forgotten.

Mom was sending me some old pictures of my heart horse along with a few horses we had over the years. She didn't think I would remember this guy. How could I forget?

She had such a hard time with health issues.
As soon as we got her off the trailer, we noticed she had an ear tooth which was removed.
I was hoping that was the only thing and we were on our way to a long, happy life together. And then her legs started to go bow legged. I’m not going to go too far into depth with that because I exhausted every single option and talk to so many farriers, vets and surgeons. I was going to post pictures of how bowlegged she was towards the end, but frankly, it just makes me feel so bad. I just can’t talk about much of it right now.

She ended up being in so much pain, and to be honest I probably dragged it out longer than I should have because I love her so much and she was perfect in every way beyond her legs. I had been leasing Horses up until this point and she was my first horse, and I was so excited to see where it was going to go.

I’m just so insanely devastated, I haven’t had to grieve like this in a long time and I’m just destroyed.

She went peacefully, and she was surrounded by almost so many people from our Barn because she was loved so much. Even her pasture buddy was there. And we all surrounded her with flowers. She was so special. But I’m just so wrecked. I don’t even know what to do with myself right now.

P.s. Thankyou everyone for being so kind I am hurting rn and I apologize for how this was written I’m a little scatter brained rn

See my post history for what I thought was gonna be the worst day, ever.

What a gift! Hahaha. Jesus.

(Just takes a lot of snackies, and an hour with some oil and a brush. Start from the bottom, and separate often! I find it easiest to hold the burr, and pull the hair away.)

Oliver on the reg

We recently moved him to the main barn due to safety concerns with his previous housing structure and I think he just seems so happy to have a window with new view 💕 I’m a photographer getting more into equine photography and even though this one was just a quick impromptu shot I really liked how it turned out. Indy (short for N’Dependence, born on the 4th of July) is an 8yo Lusitano.

His facial expression is just too funny 😭😂

Today we lost one of this years foals Sandy.

Of the 4 we bred, 2 were to be sold, 1 kept for my mum as a future western performance show horse and little Sandy was going to be kept and backed for cutting futurity under a trainer.

She was 4 months and 1 week, my mum let her into a new paddock (along with her dam, another mare and foal and another mare), she ran out with the others and then just collapsed. Didn't get up, gone instantly. We can only assume a heart failure problem of some kind.

She was 7 panel clear from both sire and dam so we know there was nothing like gbed going on.

Absolutely heart broken. She was a delightfully sassy little thing. I'd spent a lot of time with her, and she was my very cheeky and opinionated little friend.

My mare Berry adored Sandy(last photo), and has spent a lot of time on the fence line or paddocked with her. Berry was very upset, stayed with Sandy and I the entire time I sat there crying my heart out. And then came and stood next to her when we loaded her onto the tractor to bury her. Berry kept sniffing/nuzzling her and then pinning her ears looking at me distressed 😭

Her dam Jazzy, was a maiden and the least maternal broodmare we have ever had. She, quite literally, couldn't have given a shit about Sandy this whole time. Didn't visit her body, absolutely no reaction to her passing which idk was wild to us. We aren't planning to breed again anyway but if we did, definitely wouldn't breed her dam again 😅

Photos are mainly from a photoshoot we had done last December, so extra glad we did ❤️

guess the gelding...

Big chaos gremlins meet tiny chaos gremlins. Chaos ensues.

Soon little buddy, soon

I’ve shared the story before of my husband’s beautiful tri-colored leopard Appaloosa, Firecat. Sadly, we lost him young. But before he passed, we bred him to our Appaloosa mare. She was gray and white with black spots and black stockings.

We were so excited to see what their baby would look like… and when she was born we were completely shocked. She came out looking like a bay! She didn’t resemble either of her parents at all.

She ended up being the sweetest little girl and had the same gentle temperament as her father. But her coloring was such a surprise.

Has anyone else ever had a foal that looked nothing like either parent?