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In fact, let’s hear it straight from the source: Grace’s things together as long as we both remained calm.

loving owner, Tamara Tate –
The next step was to start riding, and although my
husband has ridden her bareback at a walk, we both

“Grace was born in 2005. Before she was a year knew it was not safe since the slightest thing could

old she and three other illies from the same Quarter potentially cause her to blow. I was at the end of my
Horse farm ended up at a feedlot to be sold for skill level and still had not gotten her past her deeply

slaughter. Hytyme Equine Rescue of Eagle Creek, rooted fear of people. So for the last two years I have

Oregon heard about the illies and had to pay to just loved and taken care of her.
rescue them. Before they came to the rescue they The opportunity to bring Grace to the Summit

all came down with severe cases of strangles. They was like a dream come true. I knew Grace was an

spent a month or so in quarantine at the feedlot then
amazing horse, because she would slip up and let

“

Pat and Grace, inside and outside.

me see it sometimes. So, to me, she was worth the another month in quarantine at the rescue. For the

long trip from Oregon. I learned that I had made next three years, Grace was at the rescue, but no

one of the best decisions of my life while I watched one worked with her. In 2009 I started volunteering
Pat work with her. I could have never gotten her to at the rescue and she was assigned to me the irst

that irst big release. I know now that although I did day. I quickly realized she had some trust issues.

quite often take her out of her comfort zone, I did Eventually she came to my house and has never left.
not do enough or for long enough. I was constantly The irst two years I worked a lot with Grace and

questioning what I was doing.
believe it or not, she made a lot of positive changes.

The ofer to bring Grace back to Pat for the I got to a point with her where we could do a lot of
summer was more than I could have ever hoped for
The opportunity to bring Grace
her. She is inally going to learn how to be the calm,

smart, amazing mare that has been locked up inside to the Summit was like a dream
for all these years. I cannot wait to make the long

trip back to Pagosa in the spring, because Grace come true. I knew Grace was
deserves this!”

an amazing horse, because she

Grace captured the hearts of everyone in at-
tendance, but she was only in the arena for three would slip up and let me see it

sessions – there’s so much more to talk about! For
sometimes.
instance, the spotlights and Savvy Teams.

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