Roses From Ben-ADOPTED!

Roses arrived here after an attempt to get her started back at the track didn't turn out well and she was retired from racing. Her former owners came to visit her and hoped that we would find her a home with a little girl to love her. Sweet and sassy, Roses did well here as she learned her way in the herd and new manners in her life as an ottb. When her owners came one day and told us that they decided to adopt her back we were all overjoyed. Laura and Roses are loving the life they live together... 

Roses and I have a complicated story that can simply be summed up by saying we rescued each other. I first met her on her way to a sale ring where her destination may have been questionable, that time I rescued her. I ended up in a verbally and emotionally abusive relationship, she rescued me. When Roses retired from racing, my heart ached as I knew I wouldn’t be able to keep her, while at the same time was so full that Roses would end up in the loving hands of Valerie Buck, not only a wonderful horsewoman, but someone I have “known” most of my life seeing her throughout morning trainings at Saratoga. Valerie was kind enough to let me visit Roses, knew I wanted to make sure I was listed if her adopter ever couldn’t take care of her, more than anything she deserved a little girl to love her forever. Not long after Roses arrived, the call came that my 19-year-old gelding had suddenly passed of a heart attack, as I said goodbye to him, I felt an immediate void. Fast forward a couple months and here we are! Me and my RoRo, the first mare I ever loved, we are fierce, we are strong, in an unforeseen whirlwind of events we rescued each other, and I am the lucky little girl (at 32) who gets to love her forever.