Gypsy Gift, Honoring our Heroes, Smoky Mountain Service Dog Benefit Auction & Fundraising Challenge Comments from friends and fans!
What a wonderful cause (Smoky Mountain Service Dogs Benefit Auction).
– Janelle Kopecky Houillon
You generosity is very much appreciated by everybody who works with service animals.
-Judith Szablak Whaley
PATH Center Gift Horse
My cousin’s daughter was diagnosed with autism early in life, and has found great joy and therapy with Strongwater Farm’s PATH program. I know that the program has been actively looking for a gelding that can support larger clients, and your gift means so very very much to them. So, on behalf of an interested observer: THANK YOU. Thank you for helping my family. Thank you for helping people in need. Thank you for giving the centre an opportunity to broaden their program in the future.
– Wendy Jones Rafn
This was truly a lovely gesture and there really aren’t enough words to express how much it is appreciated. We look forward to keeping in touch with you and hope that your amazing gesture is repaid in kind. (What goes around comes around!) If we can ever assist, please do let us know.
Thank God for the people who own this farm! Such a gracious thing for them to do. How I wish my pocket book was a lot fatter!! When you live on disability you just don’t have to many pennies to hold on to!! Thank you all though for the great cause.
– Suzi O’Hagan
So, Facebook suggests pages right? Well, when yours popped in that little area I thought hmmm, totally gotta look at their horses since I love GV’s and Drum horses and see what they’re about before liking their page. Ya, you totally won my like in your first three posts I saw. Wow! Makes my heart warm to see such awesome, caring, and giving people like you guys! Thank for all you do to help others in need!
– Jessica Bennett
Thank you Lexlin Gypsy Ranch for our magnificent gift of Lexlin’s The Attraction. We could not be happier with our choice. We loved every minute of our day with you on Saturday. Marion Therapeutic Riding Association can’t wait to get him home.(MTRA), Ocala, Florida
– Karen Schmitt Cunningham
What an icredible day yesterday at lexLin gypsy Ranch, met some amazing people and so many beautiful horses. Thank you so much for your precious gift horse to Marion Therapeutic Riding Assoc of Ocala, Fl
– Gail Dufresne
Thank you for your wonderful generosity and hospitality today. It was a beautiful day that will be appreciated by many for a long time.
– Gail Alexander
Thank you so much for the opportunity to win a horse for MARION THERAPEUTIC RIDING ASSOCIATION in Ocala, Florida!! Your generosity is very much appreciated!!!
– Cynthia Nuce
It is with overwhelming gratitude in our hearts to all of you–who voted, asked your family, friends and co-workers to vote–that we joyfully announce that Heartland has won a Lexlin Gypsy Ranch Gypsy Vanner horse! Thank you so much to everyone for your incredible support!! We are so blessed and honored to be gifted with one of these magnificent horses!
-Heartland Therapeutic Riding, Inc.
I want to extend a huge thank you to Lexlin Gypsy Ranch for their recent contributions to Smoky Mountain Service Dogs. I am so proud to be associated with such phenomenal people who support our mission and support our veterans.
– Heather Wilkerson
Stormy is a FAST learner and a great addition to our veterans program!
– Equest Hooves for Heroes, Jeff Hensley
Thank you for your great gift of Stormy!! I think it is awesome!
– Jennifer Bassi
I like how you are helping out the vets out there i know my Gypsy horse help me outa lot they are the best therapy there is
– Michael Goddard
Just wanted to thank Lexlin Gypsy Ranch and Vanquish Worldwide for helping Smoky Mountain Service Dogs to serve those who have courageously and honorably served us. – Mike Kitchens (pic)
Just went through your pictures. What a beautiful place and the horses are WOW!! It is a really nice thing that you are doing for those who put their life on the line for us. May God bless you. – Joy Noseworthy
Just watched your farm’s video through the Horse Coupon Book’s link. You have a beautiful farm, beautiful horses, and beautiful hearts to give a horse to a deserving veteran. – Lisa Andres
You have some amazing representatives of this wonderful little breed! I greatly appreciate the gesture you’re making with Braveheart. Deployments are difficult, not just for the service member who has to pack up and leave, but also for the family who stays behind. Having been on both ends of deployments, the love and devotion of a Gypsy eases the family’s loneliness when the soldier is gone and always understands when a soldier needs someone to listen when it’s all over! – Jessi L Ross-Mead
I’ve never heard of this breed until a couple of months ago and I’ve falling in love with them. It is wonderful that you’re “givin’ back”. AWESOME!!! I wish I could get one some day soon. I’ve raised Arabian Show Horses since 1983. I love all my 4 legged kids. – Kyle Dike
Thank you all for your generosity. I work with MTRA in Ocala, FL and cannot wait to meet our new little guy – Colleen Cohill
As a volunteer at Marion Therapeutic Riding Association (MTRA), Ocala, Florida, Your generous gift is very appreciated. He will be such an asset to the program and impact and improve lives for years to come. Thank you. – Sue Enberg
Thank you so much for your generous gifts to such wonderful PATH Intl. centers to share with their participants — your amazing horses will touch the lives of so many! We are very excited to welcome The Varsity to Colorado soon!!! – Hearts and Horses
Thanks to Lexlin Gypsy Ranch for including STAR in this amazing opportunity! We are so happy to have Jess of Lexlin as part of our family! A special thanks to Eric and Mechelle Barton for their continued support of our programs here at STAR. We are thankful to have such an amazing horse at our center! – Shangri-La Therapeutic Academy of Riding
Thank you Lex Lin for being the kind of people you are. Those who give from their heart. You will never know how many life’s are better because of your gifts. For generations to come, oh my, misty eyed!!!! – Katrina Hardesty
Marion Therapeutic Riding Association (MTRA), Ocala, Florida is forever grateful for this gift horse. We can’t wait to see the miracles that “The Attraction” will perform with our clients. The Barton family is a very special family, so happy to have met you. – Gale Dufresne
Thanks again everybody at Lexin, for our beautiful Gypsy mare, Lily. I wish I could have been there last Saturday to participate in your generous give-away but grateful thoughts from TiAnViCa go out to you. – Judith Szablak Whaley
You guys are so amazing for your generosity!!! You rock!!! – Jessica Stafford
Thank God for the people who own this farm! Such a gracious thing for them to do. How I wish my pocket book was alot fatter!! When you live on disability you just don’t have to many pennies to hold on to!! Thank you all though for the great cause. – Suzi O’Hagan
Oh how I wish I had the $$$ and a place for one of your beautiful horses!! What a wonderful cause you are working for!! Good luck, I am sure you will do well!! – Vickie McFarland
Thank you Lexin for this second round of voting. Everybody at TiAnViCa can hardly wait to meet our new horse! – Eric Whaley
We are so excited!!! Thank you so much for the opportunity to receive a Gypsy Gift for Heartland Therapeutic Riding, Inc.. – Dionne Newton
TiAnViCa Riding Academy thanks you and all our supporters!!! – Roger Meadows
Can’t thank Lexlin Gypsy Ranch enough for the wonderful gift for Marion Therapeutic Riding Association (MTRA), Ocala, Florida. The lucky horse that goes there will have the best care possible and more love than it can handle! – Sue Enberg
Strides To Success is so excited and honored to receive this gift!!! – Blair Spring McKissock
Thank you SO MUCH for running a second round of Gypsy Gift! Everyone at Cedar Creek is so excited that we won! – Jess Bowers
Your generosity is amazing and will make such a difference in so many lives! Thank you thank you thank you! – Linda Shields
Thank you for including Cedar Creek Therapeutic riding center. I can’t stop smiling! What a wonderful gift. You guys are fantabulous! – Gayle Grindler O’Neill
What a wonderful partner, LexLin, also a great example of a Veteran helping other Veterans, Thanks to Eric and Mechelle. – Mike Kitchens, Smoky Mountain Service Dogs
Your generosity is appreciated by this STAR rider!! – Jan Barton
Thank you thank you for giving Cedar Creek Therapeutic Riding Center a second chance to get those votes! We will be rallying the volunteers and riders, as we lost one of our beloved therapy horses to colic this year, and need a new horse to fill her very special shoes! – Jess Bowers
Thank you so much Lexin for giving TiAnViCa and the other centers another chance to win a lovely horse. You can’t imagine how excited we were by your announcement! – Judith Szablack Whaley
Heartland Therapeutic Riding, Inc. is very grateful to have a second chance to win a magnificent Gypsy Gift! We lost two of our special partners this spring and really need a new set of hooves in the barn! A Gypsy Vanner would be the perfect horse for our program. Thank you Lexlin Gypsy Ranch for offer us another chance and thank you to everyone who has voted for us! – Dionne Newton
Marion Therapeutic Riding Association is (MTRA), Ocala, Florida is thrilled to be in the second chance round 2. We have two facilities and are in need of another great horse to join our herd. Thank you so much for this wonderful Gypsy Gift program that you have and for helping so many people with your generosity. God Bless you. – Gale Dufresne
TiAnViCa Riding Academy is thrilled to be given this second chance to win! Our supporters appreciate that we are small, but mighty (premiere accredited!). Thank you for your generosity and compassion for all centers and riders. – Grace Whelan Doran
Yay! Cannot wait to welcome The Varsity to the Hearts & Horses herd! Thank you!!!!!!!!! – Cori Pabst
What a Blessing these horses will be!! THANK YOU LEXLIN GYPSY RANCH!! I can’t wait to meet Magalomanic in PERSON!! – Becky McKenna
They are all wonderful – Megalomanic kind of stuck in my head the first time I saw him – I’m really looking forward to his arrival at Loveway! Thank you to Lexlin Gypsy Ranch. – Teri Thompson
THANK YOU LEXLIN FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF PATH CENTERS!! – Sharon Munson
Wish I could come and see my PATH Center, Loveway get their horse!! But we’re getting our new puppy that day! Thank you Lexlin Gypsy Ranch!! I can’t wait to meet that beautiful horse!!! – Becky McKenna
This was an amazing contest and Lexlin folks are to be commended for their generosity. These horses will make superb horses for therapeutic riding. Thank you Eric & Machele for believing! – Lynn Kimas Petr
Thank you LexLin – proud supporter of Texas Tech! Congrats to all – Amanda Knight
WTG Winners! Regardless of what place you were in, any of these magnificent horses will be a fabulous addition to your program. Thank you Lexlin Gypsy Ranch for this amazing opportunity! – Maryan Picard Augusta
As a part of the team of Strongwater Farm, we can’t thank Lexlin enough for this fabulous opportunity!! whoever we get, we will love them and treat them well, just like the rest of our awesome herd, you can all be sure of that!!! we are THRILLED!! – Cynthia Brassel Bigley
Congrats Strongwater Farm!!! Thank you Lexlin for this gift! – Linda Wood
Congratulations to all of the winners! Best wishes as you welcome your new additions to your herds. Thank you to Lexlin Gypsy Ranch for this wonderful opportunity. – Elanor Anne Wainscott
It was a long past few months. Congratulations to all the centers and thank you Lexlin Gypsy Ranch for your efforts and generous donations. As a volunteer and mother of a rider at Strongwater, I know how much this horse will positively influence and effect the lives of many children and adults alike. Thank you! – Linda Marlowe
What a wonderful gift to recieve by any if these groups. Lexlin Gypsy Ranch you guys made dreams come true. – Pam Abel
Thank you Lexlin for supporting PATH centers with your generosity. Congratulation centers on your new member! – Janis Shane
As a supporter of Strongwater Farm, I feel we are blessed to receive a LexLin Gypsy horse. Our ‘family’ has shown their support in spades. Thank you to LexLin for this huge gift to us and to all the other PATH organizations. We all strive to help those who need us and with places like LexLin offering their support in such a generous way, that goal becomes easier. Thank you LexLin! – Christine Genge Flynn
Congrats to all the winners! Thank you to LexLin Gypsy Ranch for this wonderful opportunity and generous gift! Looking forward to seeing a new LexLin Gypsy Horse at Hearts & Horses soon! Hooooray!! – Cori Pabst
Thanks for all that you do for therapy centers. – Volunteer at Texas Tech, Ed Jones
Thank you from a parent of a Texas Tech Therapeutic Riding Center child! – Chey Vogeler
Thank you so much for all of this wonderful support! We are so excited to receive a Gypsy Horse and so excited to be a part of this with LexLin and to be a part of the “final four” with Strongwater Farm, Love Way and Texas Tech! Way to go! – Hearts and Horses
Thank you for what y’all or doing for these therapeutic centers. The powers of a horse can unlock and repair so much. So proud of Texas Tech. – Cindy Curry Gerdel
This is just wonderful! Much needed and absolutely successful. I work with children with severe emotional disturbances and we send kids to Challenges Unlimited in Andover Massachusetts. Thank you for your generosity. – Dianne McLaughlin
This is so wonderful! What gorgeous horses for such a wonderful cause! – Hannah Smith
So thankful that Hearts and Horses will be receiving such a beautiful horse! – Debra Cheuvront
A huge thanks to Lexlin Gypsy Ranch! H & H and Loveland, CO are awfully lucky to have Varsity! – Cindy Berg
We’re so thankful and appreciative of such a gift to our center! Thank you Lexlin Gypsy Ranch!!! Looking forward to the big party on the 26th! – Jan Pollema
The MAGIC of H+H carries on…. Thank You Lexlin Gypsy Ranch!!!!!! – Mary Cosens
Such a wonderful gift! Thank you so much! – Diane Mackey
This is an amazing program. Thank you for making this magical breed available to therapy centers. – Melissa Ayers
Wish I could vote for all the centers. Humbled for what they do to help those in need. Thank you LexLin!!! – Jenice Sanger Hensley
This is an incredible program! Run by incredible people! – Krista Latham Lugauer
They are Beautiful and what you are offering up to Therapeutic Riding Programs simply amazes me and warms my heart & soul. Defiantly My Dream Horse – Jessica Face
What a mission!! You guys are awesome. Thank-you. – Stephanie Clemons
So glad that you are making such a generous contribution to the industry. – Kris Debolt Batcherlor
This is really, REALLY awesome, and I am so excited to see this unfold in the future! What a wonderful way to give back to the community! – Katie Beaver
Wow, what a unique and generous opportunity! How exciting! – Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center
What Lexlin is doing honoring the heros of the U.S. is phenomenal!! Awesome idea and extremely generous. Can’t wait to hear who gets that beautiful boy! Kudos Lexlin!!! – Christina Berry Bendel
You guys are amazing! You give back so much to others by offering this event each year. The Gypsy Vanner is the most beautiful of the horse breeds as far as I’m concerned and since finding you on net and looking forward each day to some kind of message or new foul born it brightens my day!!!! I just finished reading each of the contestants for the give away and I have to say each are deserving. It’s hard to pick just one when so many out there between organizations that work year round to help our returning heroes to individuals with life long altering injuries inside and out. On a finishing note. I want to thank you for being such a Proud Giving Patriotic American! It shines through not just your words but how you and your family live each day! It shines how you handle your ranch to how you LOVE your horses! AND it shines on you on how provide something very special to those that have given their lives for this country! They have done what is asked of them without question and willing to do so in order that this Proud Country can remain free! What you provide to a special individual or a worthy organization is worth a million! Bless You and Your Family!!! – Beverly Heller Cochran
LexLin Gypsy Ranch ROCKS!!!! Thank you for an AWESOME adventure!!! – Chris Kelly
I just voted, what a great way to honor our countrys service men and women! also just took a look at your webiste for the first time, wow. you have beautiful animals, Is blue steele sold? he’s the prettiest vanner i’ve ever seen! make more like that one!! – Sandi Martin Smith
It’s belated but, hey, I wanted to wish ya’ll a Happy New Year too. SMILE Mostly, I want to thank y’all for Stormy. He is awesome!!!! He is full of love and has captured the heart of every Veteran who has met him. His attitude is GREAT! If he is a depiction of the horses that you breed, then you have a great herd of Gypsies. Thank you for caring about Veterans and raising wonderful Gypsies. God bless y’all! – Debra Rogers
Thank you LexLin for what you do! – Niki Albery
Love what you do Lexlin, big hearts!! – Robin Swindle
We thrilled to have Stormy join our team! Thank you LexLin Gypsy Ranch for sponsoring this wonderful way to honor our veterans! – Equest Hooves for Heroes
OMG that was one of the hardest decisions I’ve had to make. So many amazing people! I hate to have to choose just one, they all deserve so much. The stories really hit me hard. I’ve never been blind to what our soldiers go through but these stories show so much more. This is an amazing event you are doing and I encourage you to never stop the “Annual LexLin Gives Back” program, though I’m sure you have no intention of doing so I’ve made my vote and I think I need a moment to reflect…. It’s definitely motivating…. – Joshua Netzley
Thank you lexlin for accepting us at Paradise Ranch as a nomination. We are very grateful to have a chance at winning such an amazing horse. We are so honored to have this opportunity and we know the horse Smokey will make a beautiful addition to any facility or person that gets him. Thank you for what you do and we love the support you show to all our veteran me and women. – Brandy Higdon
Priceless!!!!! So happy for this family and a huge KUDOS to Lexlin for once again doing such a wonderful thing by honoring one of our nation’s heros!!!! – Christina Berry Bendel
The Gypsy Vanner horses are amazing and I like what this ranch is doing to help our injured Veterans. – Ginger Bell
LOVE this program! (Gypsy Gift) – Gypsy CaraVanners
Nominate a Veteran or supporting organization to win a Gypsy Horse!!! What a wonderful opportunity provided by LexLin Gypsy Ranch! Thank you Mechelle and family! What a way to say “thank you”!!! – Sonja Harpst Gillette
I am a board member for Ride for Joy Therapeutic Riding Program I can’t begin to say how excited we are for the wonderfully generous opportunity you have given to us and other centers to win one of your fantastic Gypsy Horses. RFJ is a young PATH center and if we are able to win one of these incredible equines, it will be a wonderful and well-cared for addition to our small herd! Thank you and God bless you for the support and kindness extended to the participating centers! – Nancy Powers
Eric Barton, President and CEO of Vanquish Worldwide presents checks from Vanquish Worldwide, the Barton Family, and LexLin Gypsy Horse Ranch to Smoky Mountain Service Dogs. Checks totaled $25,000. Smoky Mountain Service Dogs is proud to be associated with all three entities and their generosity goes a long way in the support of our mission. We are blessed to call you family! – Smoky Mountain Service Dogs
You guys are amazing! You give back so much to others by offering this event each year. The Gypsy Vanner is the most beautiful of the horse breeds as far as I’m concerned and since finding you on net and looking forward each day to some kind of message or new foul born it brightens my day!!!!
I just finished reading each of the contestants for the give away and I have to say each are deserving. It’s hard to pick just one when so many out there between organizations that work year round to help our returning heroes to individuals with life long altering injuries inside and out.
On a finishing note. I want to thank you for being such a Proud Giving Patriotic American! It shines through not just your words but how you and your family live each day! It shines how you handle your ranch to how you LOVE your horses! AND it shines on you on how provide something very special to those that have given their lives for this country!
They have done what is asked of them without question and willing to do so in order that this Proud Country can remain free! What you provide to a special individual or a worthy organization is worth a million! Bless You and Your Family!!!- Beverly Heller
Thank you lexlin for accepting us at Paradise Ranch as a nomination. We are very grateful to have a chance at winning such an amazing horse. We are so honored to have this opportunity and we know the horse Stormy will make a beautiful addition to any facility or person that gets him. Thank you for what you do and we love the support you show to all our veteran men and women.- Brandy Higdon
From a Nominee in the 3rd Annual Honoring Our Heroes contest:
I broke down and cried today because my sister submitted me for this and when I read the write up, I cried. The things she said are truly me over and over. Everyone that knows me would say those things too. Please vote for me. Thanks!- Darlene Young
From a fan reading and voting on essays:
OMG that was one of the hardest decisions I’ve had to make. So many amazing people! I hate to have to choose just one, they all deserve so much. The stories really hit me hard. I’ve never been blind to what our soldiers go through but these stories show so much more. This is an amazing event you are doing and I encourage you to never stop the “Annual LexLin Gives Back” program, though I’m sure you have no intention of doing so I’ve made my vote and I think I need a moment to reflect…. It’s definitely motivating…- Joshua Netzley