How we got started

Hollynn has long been a landscape and wildlife photographer. After moving to Utah, she discovered that there were still herds of wild Mustangs spread out across the vast Western landscapes. Some of these wild horses live in Utah. Once she saw theses horses in their natural environment, she fell in love with their power, natural beauty, emotiveness, and raw wildness.

Hollynn and her partners Ellis and Ron adopted their first two mustangs in 2021, two Onaqui yearlings they named Lilac and Lucy.

Ellis had grown up on a farm in middle Georgia, and had been riding and training horses since age 8. This is a photo of Ellis as a teenager with the first horse they ever gentled, a Morgan named Mo.

Ellis has always believed in partnership training, a force-free positive reinforcement-based method of horse training that breaks down training into a series of questions that a horse can answer “yes” to while building a positive trusting relationship between horse and trainer. She taught this training method to Hollynn and Ron.

Lilac and Lucy are best of friends and look forward to time with their humans. When we decided to adopt these first two horses, we never expected to one day be running an equine sanctuary, but when a horse needs saving, it is hard to say no.

Stay tuned for our next story about Reverie.