09/04/2026
🐴💕 Officially Retired: TinkerBell 💕🐴
After many wonderful years of serving our students and program, our sweet TinkerBell has officially retired from the AAWRA lesson program.
There are some horses that simply do their job, and then there are horses like Tink who become such an important part of the story.
Over the years, she has carried so many students through different stages of their horsemanship journey. She has helped build confidence, taught patience, forgiven mistakes, challenged riders when they needed it, and quietly helped shape some pretty special little horsemen and horsewomen along the way.
She has been a steady presence for so many of our students, helping them learn not only how to ride, but also how to listen, communicate, problem solve, and grow. She has shown our students the value of patience, consistency, kindness, and trust.
Those kinds of horses are priceless.
As much as we will miss seeing our beloved “Tinker the Slow Blinker, TinkTink, Stinkerbells” lol working in regular lessons, she has more than earned this next chapter.
Retirement doesn’t mean goodbye💗Tink is still very much part of our AAWRA family. It simply means that after all the years she has spent taking care of everyone else, it’s our turn to take care of her and let her enjoy life at her own pace.
She has given so much of herself to this program and to the children who have had the privilege of learning from her. Now she gets to spend her days being loved, spoiled, and appreciated without having to carry the responsibility of being everyone’s teacher.
We will forever be grateful for every child she carried, every lesson she taught, and every memory she helped create here.
Thank you, Tink, for your years of service to our students and our program. You have left hoofprints all over this barn and on a whole lot of hearts.
Enjoy retirement, sweet girl. You have certainly earned it.
We love you BIG, TinkTink!💗🐴
