Rehabilitating unwanted horses, educating the public, bringing the equestrian community together, and facilitating adoptions that last!

Our Common Goals:
  • To safely transition unwanted horses to become valued members of the equestrian community. 
  • To increase public awareness of the positive potential value of the unwanted horse.
  • To promote local equine trainers who use insightful, gentle and humane methods
  • To Increase public awareness of sponsorship and volunteer opportunities with local rescues
  • To foster cooperation among local rescue organizations, by hosting this event together
  • To introduce great trainers to rescues for potential ongoing collaboration
  • To make adoptions that “stick"
It's All A Big WIN.

Competitors each benefit through publicity, expanding their client bases, and could win some cash.  The Event is also a means to give back to the Equestrian community, network with other equine professionals and potential clients, provide public education, and to make a difference in providing a new chance for a healthy, sound horse to have a full and rewarding life.

The Host wins by expanding interest in an interesting new endeavor, garnering a larger audience. Ride To The Rescue's program includes live presentations designed to educate and entertain, as well as the compelling competition itself.

Rescues win because they will have a specific cause to rally around individually and collectively.  This will call public attention to their efforts through news and social media, before and during the event.

Horses win because they receive 90 days of development training aimed at making them not only adoptable but widely desirable, and suitable for the average person in need of a new equine best friend. The horses are not auctioned, but Trainers and Rescues collaborate to effectively match the new owner to the horse.

Sponsors win through this extraordinary marketing channel,  which places the sponsor in a very positive light in the minds of customers and potential customers attending and supporting the Event.

The Community wins through education, volunteer service, promotion of local businesses and sponsors, and the great feeling of gathering together behind a worthy cause.

In redeveloping one unwanted horse, you help two. When a rescue horse is redeveloped, matched with a new owner and is adopted, this creates a space for another to be saved by coming in to the Rescue. 

A second chance for the unwanted horse to have a full and rewarding life, perhaps even to become

A Champion.

A visionary competition event with a deeply innovative and expansive approach to the “Horse Makeover”,

Ride To The Rescue benefits your entire local equestrian community and all local equine rescues.

Everyone loves an inspiring story of overcoming adversity to reach one’s full potential.  This is the story of every competitor at Ride To The Rescue.

Origins and Paradigm

The foundation of this event’s concept is built upon the accumulated years of experience of 6 similar competition events across the USA. There were always two questions asked during the process: how do we effectively continue to redevelop unwanted horses to be suitable for the average rider, and how do we make adoptions that “stick”?  Additionally, further questions arose at the discovery of a few key strategies missing in the Equine rescue industry itself.  Among these are:

  • Positive public paradigm of the value of unwanted horses
  • Inter-connectivity among Rescue Organizations
  • Rescue Orgs rallying together to host public outreach events to cooperatively fund-raise
  • Annual Budgets for qualified Equine Behaviorists and Trainers to redevelop Equines for adoption
  • Programs in place that effectively match horses to adopters
  • Post-adoption follow-up training
Ride To The Rescue's program is visionary. It is unique, and fundamentally different from every other "Makeover" program, in that we address ALL of these issues in an expansive, proactive way, with flexibility to suit virtually all circumstances.  This program is supremely adaptable, and founded in "best practices" that really work for the Rescue Organizations, the Event Hosts, the participating Trainers, Sponsors, the Horses, and the Adopters.