At Reciprocity Ranch, our horses have the luxury to live in herd, in pasture, just as mother nature intended.

Due to the proximity to the Del Mar Fair Grounds, we have a huge local population of competitive race horses and dressage horses that often retire before the age of 5, while still having 25 more years of life to look forward to!

In the spirit of reciprocity, we will offer these retired horses a new home and a renewed lease on life in exchange for them sharing their natural gift of healing with our community of survivors. Rather than send these horses out to pasture to live as “pasture puffs” for decades, we instead want to offer these horses the chance to act as our co-therapists, using their natural emotional sensitivity and sophisticated environmental attunement to help heal trauma survivors.