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Unbridled Imagination
Written By: Sue Blair - Carpe Diem Farms | Issue: April 2024
Kaleb is coming home to Carpe Diem Farms and bringing his good friend Daniel with him.
Kaleb, our Percheron-Paint cross, who was gifted to us March 21, 2014, by Cindy Sheets is coming home!
Once Kaleb was here and had learned the ways of the farm, participated in programs, and was a wonderful trail horse, I began traveling to promote Easy’s Slipper. We learned quickly that he didn’t have a big enough job, with me gone, he had too much pent-up energy and would get very naughty. At nearly 1,800 pounds he would run through fences and chase the herd of mares. Not good.
Five years later, as fate would have it, a young woman in Bulls Gap, Tennessee, who was an Easy’s Slipper customer for her vaulting champion, eighteen-two-hand Percheron, Mavi, was looking for a shorter backed horse for her young vaulters. It was perfect!
Kaleb could have a job and live with a band of geldings giving up his mischievous ways! Or at least curb them. In October of 2019 he headed to Tennessee.
It’s now time to bring him home for his Forever Life. At 20, with hopes that he has left behind some of his naughty ways he returns to Carpe Diem Farms on April 10. The best news is he’s bringing with him one of Arielle’s very special horses and a pasture mate of Kaleb’s, Daniel, who will be a part of our herd, and this will be his forever home!
Daniel has an interesting history, he was rescued off the track. A Thoroughbred who was in the 100-day training for the “Thoroughbred Makeover” created by The Retired Racehorse Project, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Its purpose, to showcase the trainability and talent of off-track Thoroughbreds. Four hundred-plus trainers and thoroughbreds compete in ten disciplines. Arielle, as an amateur, matched with Daniel, trained him to compete in both vaulting and dressage. Daniel was a winner in both events and rather than offering him in the event auction she brought him home to Tennessee! He has enjoyed teaching vaulting, dressage, trail riding and working cows!
At thirteen, some of his early racetrack injuries sometimes bother him. We will be able to offer him an easy semi-retirement in our programs. A win-win for us all.
Carpe Diem Farms, Inc. Is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, “Exploring the human potential through equines.”
