What is Hanaeleh?

Hanaeleh is a dream that was started when Elizabeth purchased a bay Arabian mare from a feedlot in Chino, California in May of 1999. She had been browsing the internet looking at horses. She received a phone call a short time later from Gail at TIER Equine Rescue, who told her that there was a bay Arabian at the feedlot with the biggest "doe-eyes" and the sweetest disposition! Gail also told Elizabeth that the owner of the feedlot had called her several times that week, which meant that the horses would be shipped out by Friday to slaughter.

And thus begins Cleopatra's beginnings at Hanaeleh- truly, thus begins Hanaeleh.  Cleopatra has proven beyond doubt that horses that are shipped to slaughter are not "nags," they are not lame, and they are not dangerous creatures.  Horses that are shipped to slaughterhouses are merely the result of a bad draw in life- one which dealt them an owner who could not afford them, could not train them, or had some other excuse as to why they shipped their companion to an auction house instead of a safe home.  With the purchase of Cleopatra (Cleo), Hanaeleh was born- a way to stop these beautiful creatures from being slaughtered.  If Cleo, a completely untrained horse, could come off of a feedlot and prove to the world that she could accomplish as much as those horses purchased for thousands of dollars, perhaps the world would understand to what they were turning a blind eye- not an industry that humanely put down old, decrepit horses, but an industry that was cruelly destroying beautiful animals whose potential had not yet been tapped.

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