Exceller's Easter - ADOPTED!
April
15, 2004 An Exceller Fund member, alerted us to a little "no-name"
gelding listed on CANTER's Illinois website. She sent us the information on
the horse, and the contact information of the CANTER volunteer.
Our new horse is an unraced, untrained, unbroke, unnamed, and unregistered
3 year old TB gelding whose trainer was ready to send him to auction. The
little guy's pasterns are too long for racing. The CANTER volunteer has been
working on getting this particular trainer to give more of his horses a chance
on the CANTER listings instead of sending them to auction. This little guy
was an "acid test" case, and no one was responding to the listing.
The whole thing came together this past Saturday in a series of frantic message
board listings, e-mails and phone calls between the Exceller Fund, CANTER,
and ReRun, who arranged for our new horse to go to Bethlehem Farm. Since Darlene
found this little Easter horse, we let her have the honor of naming him, and
his new name is EXCELLER'S EASTER. His barn name is "Jelly Bean."
You can see his long pasterns which would not be good for racing, but if he
stays sound, he should be fine for pleasure riding (and have a very cushy
trot perhaps!) The gals at Bethlehem Farm get to start this little guy right
from the ground up since he has not had much handling other than being led
on a halter and loaded on a trailer.
Update:
Exceller's Easter was transferred to the Virginia Chapter of ReRun in May
2005 to faciliate adoption. By June of 2005, he found a new home with an adopter
from Tennesse who also adopted Easter's newest companion, a gelding named
Thunder. The remarkable
transformation this horse went through was made possible by the care he received at Bethlehem Farm in
Kentucky.