Interested in sponsoring one of our Heroes?
"Kate" |
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~Kate is owned by KTRA- donated by Marion Bell~ Birthday: Kate was born in the year 2000 Breed: Canadian X Color: Dappled Bay Gender: Mare Fun Facts: 1) Kate has been at KTRA longer than any of the other horses! 2) Kate is very independent and likes to be the boss of her herd |
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"Cassie"
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~Cassie is owned by KTRA- donated by Shirley Kimery~
Birthday: November 11, 1997 Breed: Paint Color: Flee Bitten Grey Gender: Mare Fun Facts: 1) Before coming to KTRA, Cassie competed in Hunter/Jumper 2) Cassie’s favorite game to play is “hard to catch” in her paddock |
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"Autumn"
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~ Autumn is owned by KTRA ~
Birthday: Autumn was born in the year 2000 Breed: Miniature Horse Color: Bay Gender: Mare Fun Facts: 1) Autumn is the smallest horse at KTRA, and although Autumn is small, she is still a horse not a pony! 2) Autumn was abandoned by her previous owner and rescued by “My Little Pony Horse Rescue” in October 2013. Autumn was adopted by KTRA in 2014. |
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"Gracie"
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"Sunny"
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~Sunny is owned by KTRA – donated by Shelley Mills ~
Birthday: Sunny was born in the year 1998 Breed: Paint Color: Bald Face Sorrel with White Stockings Gender: Gelding Fun Facts: 1) Before Sunny came to KTRA he was used as a dressage horse 2) Sunny is our main horse for riders in wheelchair! |
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"Sandy"
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~Sandy is owned by KTRA – donated by Christi Schmidt ~
Birthday: Sandy was born in the year 2008 Breed: Quarter Horse/Appendix Color: Sorrel Gender: Mare Fun Facts: 1) Sandy loves kids Before Sandy came to KTRA she was ridden by a 5yr old girl! 2) Sandy came to KTRA with a superficial scar on her nose – although it does not look pleasant, the scar does not hurt Sandy at all! |
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"Zarha"
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~Zarha is leased by KTRA from Donna Peeters~
Birthday: May 6, 2004 Breed: Dutch Warmblood/Thoroughbred Color: Chestnut Gender: Mare Fun Facts: 1) Zarha is often used for KTRA’s Youth at Risk Program 2) Zarha is very sensitive and will do anything for the people she trusts! |
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"Chevy"
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~ Chevy owned by KTRA- donated by Katie Leach~
Birthday: Born in June, 2007 Breed: Canadian/Morgan Color: Chestnut Gender: Gelding Fun Facts: 1) Before coming to KTRA, Chevy competed in eventing and explored lots of trails with his previous owner 2) Chevy is known for having an outgoing personality and a wild hairdo! |
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"Usti"
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~Usti is owned by KTRA- donated by The Savard Family~
Birthday: Born in the year 2001 Breed: Canadian Warmblood Color: Sorrel Gender: Gelding Fun Facts: 1) Before coming to KTRA, Usti competed as a Hunter/Jumper 2) Usti is the tallest horse at KTRA, and his full name is Ustinov! |
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"Tandy"
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Tandy is leased by KTRA from Daylen and Matina Callison ~
Birthday: Born in the year 2005 Breed: Paint/Draft Color: Bay Paint Gender: Mare Fun Facts: 1) Tandy will eat just about anything! She loves bean and cheese burritos, granola bars, cookies and donuts! 2) Before coming to KTRA Tandy was used as a trail horse |
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"Montana"
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~Montana is leased to KTRA from Daphne Dodd~
Birthday: Montana was born in the year 2004 Breed: Quarter Horse/Paint Color: Black and White Paint Gender: Mare Fun Facts: 1) Montana is ridden in a bridle called a “Hackamore”, which does not include having a bit in her mouth 2) Montana sometimes gets mistaken for a dairy cow due to her striking and unique markings! |
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"Milo"
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Milo is Leased to KTRA from Ashley Sudds~
Birthday: May 23rd, 2000 Breed: Morgan cross Color: Black Gender: Gelding Fun Facts: 1) Milo LOVES to jump! 2) Milo is known as our resident “drama queen” |
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"Levi"
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~Levi is leased by KTRA from Ashley Sudds~
Birthday: Levi was born in the year 1998 Breed: Thoroughbred/Trakehner Color: Dark Bay Gender: Gelding Fun Facts: 1) Levi is retired from competing in Hunter/Jumper and Dressage. 2) Although Levi is quite tall, he is a gentle giant and loves to be pampered in the stall! |
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If you feel that your horse may be a good fit for us please contact Ashley at asudds@ktra.ca - thank you!
What is included if you free lease your horse to KTRA?
Full-board - includes hay & grain (if required)
Regular Vet Maintenance - teeth and vaccines
Regular Farrier Matinenance
De-Worming
Professional Saddle Fitting
Equine Massage (if required)
Regular Exercise Schedule
What is included if you free lease your horse to KTRA?
Full-board - includes hay & grain (if required)
Regular Vet Maintenance - teeth and vaccines
Regular Farrier Matinenance
De-Worming
Professional Saddle Fitting
Equine Massage (if required)
Regular Exercise Schedule
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The Ideal Therapy Horse
Although therapeutic horses come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and breeds, they tend to share some common characteristics. Most therapeutic riding (TR) horses fall between 14 hands (the size of a large pony) and 16 hands (the size of the average race horse). A suitable TR horse will typically fall on the “stocky” side, with a short-coupled confirmation. Because some riders can have low muscle tone or difficulty balancing, even gentle work can be taxing on the muscular-skeletal system of these animals. For this reason, a sturdy bearing is important for the long-term comfort and usability. TR horses do not need to be top performers, but must be sound and possess good, clean gaits in order to produce the type of “three-dimensional” movement (up/down, back/front, side/side) that is associated with therapeutic benefit.
Offer a Retirement Home
Although their work with KTRA is not physically demanding, our horses are subject to quite the difficult job! For most of their lessons, our horses are led by a horse leader but also receiving input from the student and the two side helpers. Think about how you can become overwhelmed when receiving 4 different signals of how to do the same thing! The average therapeutic riding horse can spend about 5 years in a program before reaching burnout. KTRA allows our horses tell us they are ready for retirement in a variety of ways – some physical and some behavioral – it depends on the individual horse.
When a horse is ready for retirement, we begin the task of finding them a qualified home, one where they can spend their days just being a horse. |
If you are interested in providing a forever home for our special friends, please contact asudds@ktra.ca
Retired Heroes
"Troy"
Retired July 1, 2016 - thank you to Sherry Kahanyshyn for giving our gentle giant a loving 1/4 retirement home. Troy will still be a therapy horse for 2 weeks out of the year at a summer camp for kids with disabilities in Williams Lake! We love and miss you Troy but are so happy for you!
Breed: Quarter Horse X Percheron
Born: 1993
Sex: Gelding
Donated by: Wendy Sanford in July 2011
Troy is an approximately 16+hh, gentle giant. With his previous owner he was a trail horse and learned to do tricks. The trail rides became too much for Troy, so his owner kindly donated him to KTRA. Troy is our most versatile horse with his large build he is able to carry some of our bigger riders but he always rises to the occasion when asked to carry a little one as well. He can be used in our camps for kids to experience the thrill of vaulting and he also just loves to hang out with his human friends.
"Fantasy"
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Retired July 25, 2017 - thank you to Erin Mackenzie for giving our special angel a loving retirement home. Enjoy your trail rides together! Fantasy aka Lucy LOVES having one special person to dote on her.
Breed: Dutch Warmblood Thoroughbred X Gender: Mare Color: Chestnut Birthday: April 29, 1999 – 17yrs old as of 2016 Owned by KTRA Fantasy used to compete in 3 day eventing but was leased to us by her owner in 2013 after she went back to school and did not have the time to ride her consistently. She has quickly become one of the staff and riders favorites, because of her quiet calm nature and willingness to try anything. Fantasy is now wheel chair lift trained and can carry our more supported riders with ease. She absolutely loves to switch it up on occasion and go on a trail ride |
"TJ"
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Retired December 4, 2017 - thank you to Gabriela Sladkova for lending your gentle giant to us. He is very special and we are happy that he will now get to enjoy his full retirement out on the pasture on your ranch.
Breed: QH Percheron X Age: 24 in 2017 Color: Grey Gender: Gelding |
"Hudson"
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Retired March 2019 - thank you to the Smith family for giving our Grumpy Grandpa his last forever home! Enjoy the trails Hudson!
Breed: Quarter Horse X Percheron Born: July 1997 Sex: Gelding Leased from Sara Sellmer in October 2014 Hudson is approximately 15.3hh and a very new member on the KTRA therapy team. Hudson has had much success with his owner in 3 day eventing in the past. Today at 18 years young he is looking to slow it down just a little by becoming a therapy horse. He has passed his 45 day trial with us and we are very excited to see Hudson in action with some of our youth at risk riders this spring. |
"Max"
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Retired June 16, 2019 - thank you to Erica Gray Gowan and her family for adopting him! Her son, Colton, will be using Max to practice archery on horseback and moving cows with his Grandpa!
Breed: Quarter Horse Born: 2003 Sex: Gelding Donated by: Don Preston c/o Ken Waterston Max is a retired western pleasure horse. He is super sweet and extremely calm. Our Youth At-Risk participants love to work with him due to his kind nature. Max is well trained and can stop on a dime! |
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