January 2025
Our heartfelt gratitude extends to all of the incredible volunteers, donors, and sponsors who have supported Summit Valley Horse Center’s programs and events in 2024. Your unwavering support has enabled the transformation in the lives of countless i…
Play golf. Have fun. Help horses. Make a difference in your community.
Play golf. Have fun. Help horses. Make a difference in your community. Summit Valley Horse Center’s third annual charity golf tournament will be held Monday July 15 at Keystone Golf Course, with an 8am shotgun start. Each year this tournament has of…
Through the Eyes of a Child
By Amanda M. Faison
When you look into a horse’s eyes, what do you see? My 12-year-old daughter sees a gentle and mysterious beast, a companion, a future.
Like many young girls, Georgia is horse-crazy. Buckets of plastic figurines and play-scale b…
Hero's Story
Every Spring they arrive from different horse rescues around Colorado, each with different stories about how they ended up at Summit Valley Horse Center to be trained and rehabilitated by volunteers over the summer. They were abandoned, neglected…
Promoting Horse Adoptions through the Right Horse Initiative
Summit Valley Horse Center realizes the importance of rehabilitating rescued horses, allowing these horses in transition to find forever homes. SVHC partners with Colorado horse rescue organizations by fostering rescued horses for the purpose of eva…
PTSD plummets for veterans who try horseback riding
Click the link below to read a wonderful article about PTSD veterans and horses. Well-designed, therapeutic programs with animals has been shown to be one of the few programs that can actually cure PTSD. It can be a debilitating condition with littl…
What Horses Can Teach Us
Horses, running free and unencumbered across an open prairie, fill us with feelings of awe, wonderment and pride in our western heritage. I wonder, is it stirring some deep primordial memory with horses over the millennia or are we just appreciating…