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Our mission is to eliminate the causes of equine suffering through education and community outreach programs, rescue abused and neglected equines, and provide permanent sanctuary or selected foster homes for those equines.

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Riding Prospects

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Permanent Residents

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Happy Monday, friends! Have you heard about our ke

Happy Monday, friends! Have you heard about our key annual fundraiser, Phantom Feast? Learn more on the flyers below. The link to our donate page is below and when you scroll down and get to the section titled, "If you have a special purpose for your donation, please let us know.", hit the drop down menu and click on Phantom Feast 2020!

The Redwings donation page: https://bit.ly/33vu5PL

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Happy Thanksgiving from Little Bit and all of us a

Happy Thanksgiving from Little Bit and all of us at Redwings. We appreciate all of the support and look forward to bigger and better things moving forward! Little Bit was definitely more interested in the carrots than posing for the camera. 🐴🥕 #horses #horselovers #horsesofinstagram #pasorobles #slocounty #centralcoast

Just a quick note, Redwings will be closed tomorro

Just a quick note, Redwings will be closed tomorrow for Thanksgiving. We hope everyone has a wonderful holiday! #redwingshorsesanctuary #horserescue #horses #pasorobles #slocounty #california

Our beautiful mustang herd enjoying a morning gall

Our beautiful mustang herd enjoying a morning gallop up the hill in their pasture. Our mustang herd came from the Pryor Mountains of Montana in the fall of 2000. Photo Credit: Marissa Todd #horses #horselovers #redwingshorsesanctuary #pasorobles #slocounty #california

Baby and Katrina are two of our permanent resident

Baby and Katrina are two of our permanent residents. Both mares have old injuries that prevent them from being ridden and they are enjoying life together at Redwings. Photo Credit: Marissa Todd

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Our Draft herd enjoyed another lovely fall day und

Our Draft herd enjoyed another lovely fall day under their favorite tree. Photo Credit: Marissa Todd

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Permanent resident Ohlone is enjoying her pedicure

Permanent resident Ohlone is enjoying her pedicure. Routine farrier care is an important part of the care of our horses. Thank you to Richardson Farrier Services for providing excellent farrier care for the horses at Redwings.

Photo Credit: Marissa Todd

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Ernest Shackleton is still looking for his forever

Ernest Shackleton is still looking for his forever home and second career. Ernie is a very athletic Irish Thoroughbred with a super sweet disposition. Ernie has a lot of energy under saddle and will require an experienced rider. Contact us for more information on Ernie. Photo Credit: Marissa Todd #thoroughbred #thoroughbredsofinstagram #irishthoroughbred #horses #horselovers #pasorobles

We are happy to announce that Joelito has been fos

We are happy to announce that Joelito has been fostered. Joelito has been a staff favorite at Redwings so for us it was a bitter sweet good bye. We know this handsome boy will be very happy and spoiled in his new home. Happy Trails to Joelito and his new foster mom Linda. Photo credit: Marissa Todd

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So, how was your weekend? #horses #horselover #hor

So, how was your weekend? #horses #horselover #horsesofinstagram #pasorobles #horserescue

We find so much joy in the work we do here at Redw

We find so much joy in the work we do here at Redwings. #horsesofinstagram #horses #horselovers #nonprofit #pasorobles

Thank you is never enough. #veteransday #thankyou

Thank you is never enough. #veteransday #thankyou #military #pasorobles #california #usa🇺🇸

The eyes are the window to the soul. #horses #hors

The eyes are the window to the soul. #horses #horselover #nonprofit #redwingshorsesanctuary #pasorobles

Meet Jorge Padilla, Ranch Manager: In January of

Meet Jorge Padilla, Ranch Manager:

In January of 2018, Redwings was fortunate to have Jorge Padilla join our team. Jorge has had a long and successful career in equine care and ranch management. For the past 22 years, Jorge worked at a very large Thoroughbred breeding farm on the central coast. He has a wide range of experience ranging from horse handling and mare and foal management to ranch maintenance and repair. Jorge started as an equine care assistant at Redwings, handling daily treatments and medications for our horses, but he was quickly promoted to Ranch Manager. Today Jorge oversees a team of five ranch hands and is responsible for keeping the ranch operating smoothly. He also continues to work with the horses daily as part of the equine care team. Jorge’s dedication to the horses is evident in the care he takes with every task, and he works hard every day to make their lives happy, healthy and safe. #horses #horselover #horselovers #redwingshorsesanctuary #horseadoption

Update on the new Redwings property: You can see

Update on the new Redwings property:

You can see where the fencing for the road along the office is starting to go up, and, grading for landscaping, office parking and the picnic area (where the brick pavers and donor wall will be) is beginning very soon. Progress!

The outdoor picnic and event area will be here (by the side of the office.) It will have grass, picnic tables, trees, and space for an event tent. The road on the other side of this fencing leads into the heart of the sanctuary, there will be a locking gate at the entrance to this road.

This fence will go all the way along the road, leading to the large mare motel and the pastures.

Sara Ruggerone, Equine Care Manager, and Greg Wyatt, Redwings Board President, checking out the new fencing going up. #horses #horselover #pasorobles #redwingshorsesanctuary #horserescue

A thought-provoking read. By Jane Smiley Most hor

A thought-provoking read.
By Jane Smiley

Most horses pass from one human to another - some horsemen and women are patient and forgiving, others are rigorous and demanding, others are cruel, others are ignorant.

Horses have to learn how to, at the minimum, walk, trot, canter, gallop, go on trails and maybe jump, to be treated by the vet, all with sense and good manners.

Talented Thoroughbreds must learn how to win races, and if they can't do that, they must learn how to negotiate courses and jump over strange obstacles without touching them, or do complicated dance like movements or control cattle or accommodate severely handicapped children and adults in therapy work.

Many horses learn all of these things in the course of a single lifetime. Besides this, they learn to understand and fit into the successive social systems of other horses they meet along the way.

A horse's life is rather like twenty years in foster care, or in and out of prison, while at the same time changing schools over and over and discovering that not only do the other students already have their own social groups, but that what you learned at the old school hasn't much application at the new one.

We do not require as much of any other species, including humans.

That horses frequently excel, that they exceed the expectations of their owners and trainers in such circumstances, is as much a testament to their intelligence and adaptability as to their relationship skills or their natural generosity or their inborn nature. That they sometimes manifest the same symptoms as abandoned orphans - distress, strange behaviors, anger, fear - is less surprising than that they usually don't.

No one expects a child, or even a dog to develop its intellectual capacities living in a box 23 hours a day and then doing controlled exercises the remaining one.

Mammal minds develop through social interaction and stimulation.

A horse that seems "stupid", "slow", "stubborn", etc. might just have not gotten the chance to learn!

Take care of your horses and treasure them.

The office has its metal cladding and drywall is g

The office has its metal cladding and drywall is going up inside. The large mare motel has stalls inside. Things are coming along. #pasorobles #redwingshorsesanctuary #horserescue #horses #horselover

Are you looking for a smart and athletic sport hor

Are you looking for a smart and athletic sport horse? Ernie is available through our foster to adopt program. Ernie is an 8 year old Irish Thoroughbred that is very athletic and wants a home where he has a job that challenges him. Ernie has excellent ground manners and is very sweet but does require an experienced and confident rider under saddle. Ernie has 3 nice gaits and is naturally balanced and easy to collect. Ernie is suitable for many disciplines and we think he would make a great event horse or jumper. #horse #horses #horselover #redwingshorsesanctuary #pasorobles

Bright Eyes was rescued in November of 2019 with a

Bright Eyes was rescued in November of 2019 with a severe injury to her right front leg. At the time of her rescue she was unable to put any weight on her right front leg and she drug it when she walked. We were not sure that she would be able to recover but look at her now. It took months of therapy and rehabilitation but Bright Eyes has made a miraculous recovery and is loving life at the sanctuary. Photo credit Marissa Todd Photography. #horses #horselovers #redwingshorsesanctuary #horserescue

Cloud and Winston, two of our senior residents at

Cloud and Winston, two of our senior residents at the sanctuary, enjoy their daily morning turn outs together.

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