Entrant's Name
Kate Altynova

City
Corvallis

A little about me...
Dakota came from a neglectful owner to lesson program, which is where I met him. I hadn’t ridden in about 20 years and decided to start riding again after a knee injury took me away from running. I started taking lessons on him, fell in love so I began leasing him. As a rider you don’t necessarily realize what goes into horse ownership. I started noticing that my trainer wasn’t being truthful about things but it wasn’t until she put Dakota up for sale and I decided to buy him, that I really realized the level of neglect all her horses were facing. No farrier, no routine vet/dental care, constant moving from barn to barn and no good pastures to graze. Once I understood the extent, I took Dakota and ran for the hills. We moved 2000 miles away to a ranch in Montana and couldn’t be happier.