A horse at the Retirement Home for Horses at Mill Creek Farm in Alachua, Fla., reaches over the fence for a carrot Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. Crunching carrots, being pet by visitors and never ...

Average bid on an Honor Farm horse: $2,147. ... Of the eight burros offered, a 6-year-old named Kodak, who had been trained to ride, pack and pull a cart, fetched the winning bid of $800.

“I said, ‘get me a horse farm and I’ll think about it,'” O’Connor recalled. ... where cart-carrying horses could be seen trotting down a gravel road toward an 85-stall barn.