About Us at Khemostar
I have a small breeding program that focuses on the quality family horse with the show stopping look and athletic ability. I don't believe that you have to be a million dollar show barn in order to breed quality horses, but I do feel that you should breed responsibly. I offer sales on consignment and a few select foals for sale
each year. See my home page for details on my boys.
My journey started with my now passed senior stallion, Khemosabi/Raffon grandson
KHE-RAFFON whom was with me for 28 wonderful years, my best friend and the foundation of my program,
a horse which has proven himself over and over to be true to the arabian legends as a protector, friend
and loyal to death. He has been the basis of my journey through life, along with the Good Lord and my children, Matt who was born in 1988, and Danielle who was gifted to me in 1997. Together
we have built a life that only can be seen in story books. Doing what I love, sharing it with my
kids, we are truly blessed and love to share our experiences and horses with our clients.
In the early 2000's I decided to expand and began to purchase already trained family horses and re-sell them at profit in order to pay the huge bills associated with a "hobby" horse farm. As a single parent with one income, I am a school bus driver as my REAL job, you all know how expensive horses are, need I say more? It has been successful, but of course not without controversy and finger pointing because of the fact that I am labeled a "horse trader". I suppose, anyone who actually can support a farm buying and selling horses is a horse trader. I've learned to have thick skin and come to realize that being judged by strangers doesn't affect my business one bit, nor does it actually hurt me emotionally anymore. It did in the beginning, the part that hurt my feelings is being accused of not caring about horses. I guess some traders look at them as cattle yes, but I'm one who lives and dreams about horses, always have since I was a little girl. My daughter is the same way.
P>Along the way, I learned about the REAL WORLD and met every kind of person in the horse industry. Most of it bleak. So I decided that I could not in good conscience just buy the ones that would make me money, but had to help some of the abandoned and dumped souls along the way as well. That to has brought joy and sorrow. Joy watching a horse that was once on a kill buyers truck heading for Texas, and more recently Mexico or Canada for slaughter, get off the trailer here, and then onto another going to its new family after being "fixed" for a while on my farm. Most of the rescues I try to adopt out at cost, occasionally finding ones that were really special and worth selling for a larger monetary value, but more often than not, for much less than it cost to get them fixed an on to their new lives. Of course all of it brought judgment from people who sadly can't see into a persons heart they don't know, nor know about situations that may not be as they seemed. And then the real sorrow of losing horses to far gone to save. I had a policy to pick up starving and abused horses around the county I lived in, some from the local animal control referral, some just volunteered by owners who knew I did it. It became very expensive as you can imagine too have vets out, rehab and retrain these animals and then not being able too adopt them out for more than a few hundred dollars, and lately in 2010, giving them away for free if I can even find them a home. Sadly starting in 2007 I have turned away more than I could take, just from financial hardship they cause, lack of help in the barn, and I have to admit, because of people and their judgmental ways. The internet opens doors to everyone, good and bad. I can't turn my back on ALL of them. I am happy to say that I am still able to assist and re-home quite a few in the warm months. Winter is a nightmare for horses, and me when I have to turn my back because all my stalls are full and hay is expensive.
P>For the most part this life in the horse business world has all been worth the journey. I plan to continue a very small breeding program in the following years and to keep working full time at a day job and selling a few horses along the way. Someday I also dream of opening a half way house RANCH for addicts getting out of rehab. When I'm done being a mother I can best serve others by a purpose of good. I'm a firm believer that God puts all of us on the earth for HIS purpose, I'm again blessed to know what my purpose in the future will be.