June 2026 Auction

I'll be honest. My heart isn't really in auction weekend this month.

The loss of Misty and her foal hit me hard. We still have horses in quarantine. Hay prices continue to climb as drought conditions impact so many areas. The truck now needs a power steering pump. The barn is full. And lately it feels like every time we get our footing, something else comes along.

Now add in the uncertainty surrounding the suspension of horse exports to Mexico due to the screwworm situation.

The truth is, nobody really knows what this month's auction is going to look like. We don't know how buyers will respond. We don't know what prices will do. We don't know how many horses may be affected. There are a lot of opinions, a lot of speculation, and very few actual answers.

Part of me would be perfectly content to stay home this weekend, focus on the horses already here, and let someone else worry about it.

But rescue doesn't stop just because we're tired.

It doesn't stop because hay is expensive. It doesn't stop because the truck breaks down. It doesn't stop because our hearts are still hurting from the last loss.

We made a commitment to show up, and we'll be there.

Will it be a smaller auction weekend for us than normal? Probably. With horses currently in quarantine, our safe intake space is more limited than usual. We have to be realistic about what we can responsibly do.

But I also know that horses like Misty still show up.

Not Misty specifically, of course, but the horses who need someone to step in. The horse that's suffering today. The horse that needs to get off the pipeline now. The horse that everybody else walks past.

Those horses don't care that hay is expensive or that the market is uncertain.

So we'll go. We'll see what the weekend brings. We'll do what we can, and we'll make the best decisions we can with the resources available.

If you'd like to help us prepare for auction weekend, we've opened our June Auction Fund. I'm not setting a fundraising goal and I'm not promising a certain number of horses. I simply know that whatever happens this weekend, it will be easier to help if we're not carrying the financial burden alone.

As always, thank you for helping us show up when horses need us most.

❤️

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