Horse Illustrated Magazine

Welcome to Horse Illustrated’s weekly installment of the Right Horse Adoptable Horse of the Week, offered in partnership with the ASPCA’s Right Horse program. This week’s adoptable horse is Flag Bearer! Check back weekly for a new featured horse so you can find your Right Horse.

Adoptable Horse: Flag Bearer, a 9-year-old, 18.0hh Thoroughbred gelding
Organization: Serenity Oaks Equine Sanctuary, Plymouth, Mich.

Get to Know Adoptable Horse Flag Bearer

Meet your new best friend! “Bear” is the kindest gentleman you’ll encounter. He’ll accompany you wherever you need to go. He’s a steadfast citizen with a reliable mind, always eager to please. Appropriate for an advanced rider, Bear is sound and sane under saddle. He responds to all transitions and lead changes; he was in the dressage ring for a couple years before Serenity Oaks took him in. He easily could go back to showing in dressage or be your next trail horse; he really can go whichever way you want to take him. He will go out alone or with a friend—he’s not buddy-sour.

Bear gets along well in both large and small herds, with mares or geldings. Currently, Bear enjoys 24/7 turnout with two other geldings. Bear loads, cross-ties, and is well behaved during visits from the farrier and veterinarian. Bear will stall with no issues. Bear is big and can be pushy sometimes, so he needs a strong but kind handler. He’s really an in-your-pocket kind of guy!

ASPCA Right Horse

ASPCA Right Horse is the online adoption platform of The Right Horse Initiative, a collection of equine industry and welfare professionals and advocates working together to improve the lives of horses in transition. A program of the ASPCA, their goal is to massively increase horse adoption in the United States. To find more adoptable horses and foster horses, visit www.myrighthorse.org. To learn more about The Right Horse, a program of the ASPCA, visit www.aspcarighthorse.org.