Lone Palm Ranch

10/18/2025

They still are. End animal abuse. Protect animals. Speak up when you see animals being mistreated.

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11/01/2024

11/28/2023

Who was that who just last week was looking at pajamas and moaning because they were all heavy fleece? Who remarked don’t they know this is Florida? 🥶🤣🥶🤣

11/18/2023

And what do I see but the SUN! 🌤️🌞😎

06/25/2023

From one of my all time heroes Denny Emerson~

The words "never" and "always" leave zero room for compromise, and therefore should not be taken literally in every single case, and an example might be the use of draw reins on a horse.

What draw reins do----They give the rider enough leverage, because of the physics of basically the pulley principle, to force the horse's head into positions that can cause extreme pain, and can even cause long term damage.

They also can so thoroughly overwhelm a horse's ability to avoid them that some horses who have been ridden much in draw reins automatically come behind the vertical, like in this picture, even when ridden without draw reins, and once that happens, that the horse just "gives up," it is extremely hard damage to undo.

Now, sure, it is theoretically possible for an extremely gifted rider to use draw reins with extreme tact to correct extreme resistance without causing extreme damage or discomfort, just as some extremely gifted riders can use extreme bits without similar damaging results.

The problem, though, is that lots of riders assume that they are "extremely gifted," when they are not.

I read something that makes sense, "Draw reins should only be used by the most gifted riders in the world, but the most gifted riders in the world do not need draw reins."

So, yes, while there is theoretically a tiny window, a sliver, of wiggle room, it is probably a mistake for any of us to equate ourselves with riders so exquisitely gifted that we can use devices like these safely.

Which means, since many riders use these things daily, that there are more exquisitely gifted riders out there than we realize, or there are lots of arrogant riders out there who think they are, and which situation is accurate, I leave to others to judge----

04/17/2023

Rescue pays in many ways. ❤️

It was on a Wednesday in April 2020 that an old friend of Sally Shaffer’s called to report her neighbor’s son had died by su***de, leaving behind his farm, his animals and his grief-stricken father. The farm was now bank-owned and heading for a sheriff’s sale, and the father had only three day...

11/10/2022

The girls are feeling frisky! 🤪

08/17/2022

I love this little guy!❤️

07/20/2021

Best mare ever, Labelle LPR.

12/15/2020

Lone Palm Ranch joins the horse community in grieving the loss of such a legend. RIP Totilas...💔

FEI World Equestrian Games gold medalist Totilas died Dec. 14 from colic. He was 20. Bred by Jan K. Schuil and Anna Schuil-Visser in the Netherlands, the Dutch Warmblood stallion (IPS Gribaldi—Lominka, Glendale) started his competitive career wi...