Webers Retired Horses LLC

05/25/2026

Never forget the price that was paid for our freedom.
It is worthy of our remembrance and respect on this day as we celebrate.
Thank you to all who paid the ultimate sacrifice for us.

05/22/2026

Fefe, Rosie, Mary, and Promise were very frisky this morning! It didn’t last long and the old girls will probably feel a little sore in the morning from their romp. It is always good to see the retirees enjoying life! We humans are jumping for joy with the arrival of the much needed rain as well!

05/10/2026

Happy Mother’s Day to all!
We wanted to share a happy “horse mother” story with you today. Meet Mary, she arrived last August from Texas after weaning her last baby and retiring from being a broodmare. Her condition when she arrived shows how much of herself a mare can give to her foal. It took some time, but we have her back in great shape now.

05/04/2026

Marcus and Chopard this beautiful morning😊

04/28/2026

Trish and I had ventured out to the Final Sunset resting place and placed Avalon’s stone today. We picked some wild roses, wildflowers and some honeysuckle. A sweet fragrance in memory of a sweet horse. This evening is porch time and watching the interesting cloud formations as we watch the opportunity for storms unfold. Hopefully it will just be a quiet night with some much needed rain.

04/23/2026

13 years ago yesterday. What a great memory of all these precious geldings who have all passed on over the years! We remember each one, their names, their quirks, who their buddies were, and of course their owners. They are all great ones in this video! Some of you who have been followed the page for quite awhile will recognize them❤️.
Harley, Good Job, Carlos, Symphony, Chewy, Aly, Trego, Tanner, and Cappucino❤️

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01/29/2026

"Q" Final Sunset

The final years for "Q" could have been very different, and not in a good way, fortunately for him, that was not the case. His story was a good one that ended last week with apparent heart failure. He would have turned 31 this spring.

Born in Portugal, Q (short for Quibom) was a beautiful bay Lusitano gelding who was very highly trained in dressage. His known story begins in his mid-teens. At that time, he was a working member of a dressage performance troupe that traveled across Europe and Canada.

His next chapter began when he was approximately fifteen. A Michigan family purchased him for their daughter. She continued his show career, competing at high level dressage shows. Q was a smaller horse, and as often happens in the show world, the daughter was ready to move up to a bigger, flashier mount. So, Q was literally put out to pasture in Michigan until age 19 when he was brought to a Chicago area stable to sell.

This is where it could have gone very wrong for Q. Many older horses, who still have much to offer yet can't quite perform as they once did, end up in the wrong hands. Sadly, it happens more often than anyone would like to admit.

As fate would have it, Q was very fortunate. Despite some wear and tear, his current owner bought him recognizing he was deserving of a good home. He had a few issues, a sore right knee, and he did not see well out of his right eye. She soon found out how deserving he was. Q was very sweet and willingly shared all his fancy moves under saddle even when his owner hadn't quite learned how to push his fancy buttons. They shared a number of good years together until his retirement.

We commend her on her commitment to him, and we loved that we got to share in his life over the last years. Q was always a gentleman and a gem to work with! He will be missed!

His owner shared the following: "One of my favorite memories was how Q liked to passage down the barn aisle to his stall. He had so many moves and so many buttons to trigger those moves, making my initial rides very interesting. We would be walking around the arena one minute and bowing the next!
Q always kind of kept to himself. He didn't show much emotion, but he was such a sweet guy. He'd gently lower his head to have his forelock braided or stretch his neck way out and curl back his lips when the curry comb hit just the right spot behind his shoulders or on his haunches. He loved cold watermelon in the summer and warm cooked carrots in the winter.

In September of 2021, Q retired to Weber's Farm where he happily lived out the rest of his years just being a horse. Weber's Farm truly is "Heaven on Earth" for horses. I'm so happy I was able to give Q a few years where he could just be a horse at their farm. He seemed so calm and relaxed and content every time I visited. Thank you, Kim, Rob and Dr. Maddux for taking such good care of my big boy these last 4 1/2 years. I'll miss my visits down to Princeton. I'll especially miss watching Q from afar, lazily enjoying all the grass he could eat in that great big pasture."

01/26/2026

Farm update. We are counting our blessings that we did not get the ice storm we did back in 2009. It is so sad that it did affect SO MANY others this time around across several states. We feel your pain and will be praying power will be restored as soon as possible. It will be many days for most.
We had several inches of powdery snow, then we had a two inch layer of sleet/ice mix, then more snow on top. It is difficult to walk in and very, very, hard to attempt to shovel it. Even the big plows going down the highway were struggling to push these big “ice plates”off the roads. Rob struggled all afternoon trying to get our driveway open. We didn’t even get to the barn areas today.
We are blessed but tired. Rob and I are ready to get our staff back to the farm. It’s been a long weekend for sure!

11/27/2025

11/24/2025

Fall weather is always a great time to visit the farm. We enjoyed visits from several of our farm family members as well as a leadership group of 4-H youth from surrounding counties.
If you haven’t ever visited the farm, we’d love to see you sometime, although the change in the upcoming weather might not be as ideal as it has been!😂

10/17/2025

Our pretty girls are enjoying a fabulous fall day❤️