Sobolewski Horsemanship at Divergent Stables, LLC

06/09/2026

Video of Maze’s progress will be dropping soon! Forgot how much I love her willingness to please 🥹

06/08/2026

One word in this quote stands out: privilege.

Charles reminds us that riding is not simply something we do. It is an opportunity entrusted to us by a remarkable animal.

Most of us spend years searching for the right answers for our horses. We seek better exercises, better equipment, and better solutions. Yet the greatest gift we can offer our horses is our own commitment to learning.

Classical dressage is built on understanding the horse: how he thinks, how he learns, how he moves, and how he responds to our aids. The more we understand the species, the better equipped we are to help the individual horse standing in front of us.

Our horses deserve riders who never stop learning.

06/04/2026

Sawyer has found his person! This quarter horse came in for a quick tune up and to connect with his own human and not a program. And we did just that! Happy trails to Sawyer and his person💙

06/02/2026

Have You Heard About Our Lease Program?

It’s still a work in progress, as our first eligible horses are currently in training, but we’re incredibly excited about what’s ahead and couldn’t wait to share!

A huge part of our mission is proving that mustangs can go out and do everything a domestically bred horse can do. One of the best ways to showcase that is by having well-trained mustangs attending public events, competing, and serving as ambassadors for their breed. The number of compliments, questions, and positive comments we received at a small show this past weekend was a perfect reminder of how powerful it is to put these horses in front of new audiences.

Our goal is to offer select horses through a lease program to dedicated show homes. While our roots are in dressage, we believe that foundation prepares horses for success in virtually any discipline, and we hope to see our mustangs thriving in a variety of careers. As a nonprofit, we can offer quality horses at more accessible rates, helping riders pursue their goals without breaking the bank.

Even better, every dollar generated through our lease program will go directly back into our mission, helping us bring more horses out of holding facilities and into bright futures. If all goes according to plan, these horses will be helping save others just like them.

Horses Expected to Be Available in Early 2027

Kona
2019 Mare | 14.2 Hands

Kona has endless potential, but she will thrive with a rider who is willing to invest the time to earn her trust. Like many mustangs, she can be slow to form connections, but once she does, her loyalty is unmatched. She is currently under saddle, competing in WDAA shows, and making progress every day.

Otter
2022 Mare | Approximately 13 Hands

We’ve only recently welcomed Otter, so we’re still getting to know her, but she already shows signs of being a social butterfly. We believe she could be an excellent fit for a small lesson program in the future. She is scheduled to begin her under-saddle training this summer, and we’ll continue sharing updates as she progresses.

Horses Expected to Be Available in Late 2027 / Early 2028

Dutton
2023 Gelding | Approximately 14 Hands

Dutton has never met a stranger. Friendly, willing, and easygoing, he loves everyone he meets and is not expected to require any special personality match from his future leaser. He is just beginning his saddle education, so be sure to follow along as his training journey unfolds.

We can’t wait to see where this program takes us—and more importantly, where it takes these incredible horses. Stay tuned for updates as their training continues! 🐴❤️

06/02/2026

1000%

Why are so many horses being “mis-sold”?

I’m not entirely convinced they are.

You go and try a horse, in its home environment, with people it knows, in a routine it understands. You like what you feel. Maybe you go back and try it again… same place, same setup. It all feels good, and you think this is the one.

Vetting passed and you bring your new horse home...and then everything changes.

New yard. New field. New stable. New people. New routine. New smells, sounds, expectations.

You give them a day. Maybe two. Sometimes not even that.
Then you get on. New tack, different bit, new arena, people watching.

But suddenly, you’re not sitting on the same horse you tried.
They feel different. Tense. Sharp. Spooky. Not quite what you remember.

So now you’re on edge. Watching for everything. Questioning every step, every reaction, every feeling.

And this is where it starts to unravel.

Because what we often forget, or maybe underestimate, is just how big that upheaval is for them.

We’ve taken them out of everything they know, everything that felt safe and predictable, and dropped them into something completely unfamiliar… then expected them to perform exactly the same, almost immediately.

When they don’t, it’s easy to assume something’s wrong.
That the seller wasn’t honest. That the horse isn’t as advertised.

And so the horse gets labelled ''not as described''. The lucky ones are sent back, the unlucky ones are sold on, some going on to boomerang from one place to the next.

But what if the problem isn’t that the horse was mis-sold…
What if it’s that we expect instant consistency from an animal going through complete change?

Horses don’t just arrive and slot neatly into our expectations. They need time to settle, to understand, to feel safe again. They need space to adjust before they can show you who they actually are.
If we don’t give them that, we’re not seeing the horse we bought, we’re seeing a horse trying to cope, and that’s a very different thing.

Maybe the question isn’t “why are so many horses being mis-sold?”
Maybe it’s… are we giving them a fair chance to be the horse we thought we were buying?

06/01/2026

Come cruise around the novice cross country course with Puppet and I 🏇🏼

05/25/2026

POV riding Puppet, my OTTB mare.