Our story begins…

To be clear, I never wanted white ponies. I had never found white or grey horses to be particularly beautiful, preferring chestnut, buckskin, bay, and palominos. Basically, if it was colorful, I liked it. Not that I had anything against white horses, but I thought they were cliche. I was happy with my Quarter Horses and my buckskin pony, Smokey Joe. Unicorns were never a thought in my head, much less starting a business. Plus, keeping white and grey horses and ponies clean is nearly impossible. As a horse groomer, my hands are stained purple most of the time just from shampooing all the light colored horses. Green, by the way, is usually able to be cancelled out by the color purple.

It was February 9th, 2019.

I was at my friend’s barn doctoring my Quarter Horse’s leg that he had attempted to cut off a month before, when my decidedly non-horsey husband asked me “Hey Jill, are horses supposed to pee laying down?” I responded in the negative and asked him which horse it was. “Uh…. the pink one?”

He was referring to a strawberry roan pony named Irish who was due to have a baby any day now. Except, it wasn’t any day now. It was today. The day that I was at the barn trying to get my colicky, injured horse to sit still long enough to put a new cast on his leg. The day that I had not been expecting to deliver a baby. I had never delivered a baby, though I have had 3 colts of my own. I panicked and called my friend, the barn owner, Kayla and told her to get back to the barn and cancel her massage because she was having a baby.

Less than 20 minutes later, Salty was born. The smell was terrible. The baby was wet. The sounds were sloppy. I was horrified by the process. So of course I had to have him. He was pure white with red ears. His dam was a strawberry roan and his sire was a red roan.

We had no idea where an almost pure white colt had come from. This was some sort of fluke, wasn’t it? How do two reds make a white? Side note: they make a white because they both passed on the Sabino gene. There was a 25% chance of getting a pure white pony from this cross.

The next year, his half sister, Kelpie was born.

She was also bright white with red ears. What were the chances? 25% again. So I bought her and brought her home, thinking that was the end to the madness. People were telling me I needed to start a unicorn business since I had two pure white ponies now (the red shed out during the first shedding season). I told everyone no, I was not going to start a unicorn business because I work a full time job, I show all summer, and I don’t have time to start and run my own business.

The next year there was no white baby, and I was relieved. I jokingly said that if I got a 3rd, max white sabino pony from the same bloodlines, that I would have to start a business just to feed them all.

Well, the joke was on me because the next year, Charming, Kelpie’s full brother, was born.

He was pure white with red ears. My husband and I were the first to catch and pet him, in the afternoon of July 4, 2022. He snuggled up to my husband and got confused as we were leaving as to who his mom was, the mare or my husband. So he followed my husband to the trailer. We loaded him and his dam, Grace, onto the trailer and brought them to the barn to get cleaned up, doctored, and start handling him, just like his two older, pure white, siblings.

So here we are.

Uniquely Unicorns. All I can say is don’t tempt fate and never say never. As soon as you do, statistics will play a joke on you and you’ll end up with too many ponies and an addiction that you’ll never want to be rid of.

I am happy to share my ponies with you, and bring your dreams to life. Kelpie has been used by a therapist to help a child realize that hope exists even for the hurt. Salty has made a name for himself as the friendliest menace around at shows. Pete has never met a set of hands that he couldn’t get to pet him. Charming is…. Charming. If I didn’t know better I would say he was a black cat.

We have our other ponies besides the three Max White Sabinos. Pete is special to my heart for certain reasons that I will not go into here. Smokey is my first pony and has taught me so much, while we learned how ponies work together. It was never my intention to start a unicorn business, and I run this as more of a hobby than a real business. So feel free to contact me. If I am available for the event, I will be happy to help out and share the joy that these creatures bring to me.