As you may know, the Horse Feathers Veterans Program is a veterans equine wellness program at Ray of Light Farm that has helped many veterans over the past seven years. We teach our vets how to drive horses in carts and wagons, so as to allow more physically challenged vets to fully participate in equine activities.

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Recently, we have lost two of our beloved driving equines: Sandy, our mule, passed away last year from cancer, and Biscuit, our beautiful Norwegian Fjord horse, unexpectedly passed away several months ago from an unrecoverable health event that no veterinary care could help. To continue our program, we need to purchase more driving horses.

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This past week, we traveled to upstate NY and found two beautiful, trained driving horses. They are of the Haflinger breed and are well suited to driving. They were rescued from a farm who rescued them from a slaughterhouse. Their names are Tina (12 yrs. old) and her son, Larry (7 yrs. old). Here's the heartbreaking part: Larry is COMPLETELY BLIND! Without the intervention of both Ray of Light Farm and the original farm that rescued him, he most certainly would have been put down and sold in the meat market.

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Although he is blind, Larry still drives beautifully, with his mother Tina acting as his seeing eye horse! Even with this disability, Larry still has a purpose which gives him a fulfilling life.

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