Twenty
horses.
One herd.
Mane Characters is a small reserve in Paris, Kentucky for horses retired from racing, ranching, and working life. You can sponsor one of them, by name, by month, by what you can, and we'll write to you.
The five R's.
Each horse takes a different path through our care. We rescue the ones who need rescuing, rehab the ones who need rehabbing, retrain the ones who can re-home, and let the rest live out their retirement with us. Five distinct programs, one mission.
Rescue
Take in horses from neglect, transition, or surrender.
Rehabilitate
Vet care, weight, hooves, training to come back to comfort.
Re-train
Where useful, build back trust and groundwork before re-homing.
Re-home
Place suitable horses with vetted, equine-experienced homes.
Retire
For those who've earned it, a long, quiet pasture life with us.
Pick a horse. Pay what you can. Get the updates.
Sponsorship is per-horse, recurring or one-time, starting at $10/year. In exchange you get the staff updates that money can't buy, pasture photos, vet check-ins, the small wins. Pick anyone.
Contributions are tax-deductible. EIN 93-2962199. Cancel any sponsorship from your member account.
The newsletter is the heart of this.
Two letters a month from the staff. Pasture photos. Vet check-ins. Small wins. No fundraising blast, that's a promise.