Friday, July 30th... From a race track yesterday, we said hello to a mare with the name Dixieland Classic. She is beautiful. The mare comes to us with a fractured ankle. She needs 9 months of doing very little. Free HBO weekends. Chopped carrots. A walk in the park, if we had a park.

We said goodbye to Sylvan Hill, off to live with Lee & Kathy. A well mannered gelding, we called him Sylvie. Sometimes we called him Hill. In a hurry, and his name became Syl. And by now you are thinking, this guy has nothing to write about on a nice cool Friday morning.

more to come



    Located in Northern California, TB Friends is dedicated to the rescue and placement of horses that have been abandoned or neglected. Usually these horses arrive from the race track. The horses obtained by TB Friends are often saved from a trip to rendering facilities in Mexico or Canada.


    When possible TB Friends takes care to select horses well suited to make the transformation to riding mount or show horse. Our proximity to the bay area race tracks, along with the throwaway nature of the racing industry, unfortunately results in a situation where there are many horses in need of rescue, and therefore many horses from which to choose.


    At TB Friends we manage to rescue about two hundred horses every year. When we place a horse there is no charge for the care that we provide them here at Shelton Farms. We only ask for the cost of a horse's rescue and transportation to the farm. For most horses this amounts to less than $1000 dollars.

    Sadly, we can not save them all. We are limited by the number of horses that we can care for at any one time. However, as we find homes for the horses we have rescued, we replace them by rescuing others. For this reason we ask you to consider purchasing a horse from our farm. Not only are you likely to obtain a beautiful animal, but you will also help us to save more horses.

My cell number is 530-383-2120.

Our mailing address is:
Joe & Cathy Shelton
15891 County Road 92C
Woodland, Ca. 95695

You can send your letters to tbfriends@aol.com