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Horse Adoption, Welfare, and Charities

My Right Horse Adoptable Horse of the Week: Mariposa — January 25, 2021

Photo Courtesy Wild at Heart Horse Rescue

Welcome to Horse Illustrated’s weekly installment of the My Right Horse Adoptable Horse of the Week, offered in partnership with The Right Horse. Mariposa is this week’s adoptable horse. Check back weekly for a new featured horse so you can find your #righthorse.



Horse: Mariposa, a 9-year-old 15.2-hand pinto Standardbred mare in Lancaster, Cali.
Organization: Wild at Heart Horse Rescue



Mariposa is a beautiful pinto mare with a butterfly on her shoulder. She has completed 60 days of training with Monty Roberts. She is a great walk-trot-canter horse and has had an introduction to trails and lots of exposure to obstacles. Mariposa is a simply stunning mare and ready for her new forever home. Could she be your #righthorse?

Click here for questions about Mariposa, the My Right Horse Adoptable Horse of the Week

My 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.therighthorse.org.

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