Trip to Pegasus Farms

September 24, 2004

by Rita, TBI Survivor

Our trip to Pegasus Farms was quite successful!

Jason, Joyce, Donna, Ray, Dwight, Lynn and I met some people from Joni & Friends there, and we had a wonderful tour given to us by a very knowledgeable lady. First we saw a tape telling us how Pegasus got started. Then our tour guide took us through the closed arena, where there is a wall-sized mirror so the horses can get used to seeing themselves in it.

The open arena has scrap leather chips on the floor instead of sand, because when sand was used, it got really dusty and had to be wetted down all the time. The leather scraps came from a local tannery, are good for five years, and are free!

Then we went through the stables. Each horse has his own stall, and his particulars are posted on the wall next to it. Each horse has his own saddle, bridle, lead rope, and towel and they are all identified by colors so they don't get mixed up. Everything is kept in a big tack room. Each horse is brushed down daily and they spend their nights out in the fields.

They also had a couple of miniature ponies—half the size of a regular horse. They were really cute! The horses are very well taken care of. We even got to pet some of them—such soft noses!

We learned a lot of information about Pegasus Farms from a very good guide.

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