About Our Horses
Although Cherry Wood once raised all of its own horses, Pepper and Tiffany Fewel now focus on rehabilitating abandoned and neglected horses. When these horses are again happy and healthy they are evaluated for use on the wine rides. Most are senior citizens who seem to thoroughly enjoy semi-retirement at Cherry Wood, where they are well fed, well cared for and get lots of apples and attention from our guests. They appear to enjoy our leisurely rides through the countryside with frequent wine-tasting stops. Cherry Wood is proud to provide so many deserving horses with a contented home and a chance to live the good life.
Just like people, each horse is a unique individual. We completely delight in pairing our guests with just the right horse. We’re pretty good match makers. So even though you may find a favorite below, we can’t promise he or she will be the one we pick for you. But you can certainly share an apple with anyone you like.
Nevada Selected As Horse-of-the-Month
Tiffany often dreams of horses. What cowgirl doesn’t? But this particular dream was more vivid than most. The horse was a brilliant red color and had little white specks on his neck. He was completely alone, and as any horse lover knows, nothing is sadder than a horse isolated from his own kind. Standing in a tiny, dirty pen, the lonely horse turned to Tiffany and said, “I’m ready to go to work for you.”
Tiffany awoke convinced the horse belonged to a cowboy friend of Pepper’s and that Cherry Wood had to do something to get him out of a bad situation. Pepper was a little hesitant to call the cowboy and tell him her daughter had a talking horse dream. But the horse had said he wanted to go to work and there are always job openings at Cherry Wood. “So what the heck,” Pepper said, “I didn’t have to tell him about the dream. I just had to find out if he owned a red horse with white spots on his neck.” So she gave the cowboy a jingle.
Unfortunately he didn’t own anything close to that what she described, and as the conversation went on, Pepper finally admitted the horse had come to Tiffany in a dream. “Oh hell,” the cowboy said. “My mother was clairvoyant. I believe in this stuff.”
And with that, the cowboy suddenly remembered a little red horse standing in a hot corral with no shade or shelter from the Yakima Valley sun. “I don’t know about the white spots, but I drive by all time and feel bad for him, just baking there all alone.”
The next day the cowboy knocked on the door of the house nearest the corral and quickly struck a deal for the little red horse. The horse that would soon be known as Nevada arrived at Cherry Wood, where Tiffany brushed the dirt and dust from his red coat only to discover the little white spots on his neck she had seen in her dream.
Who knows what it all means -- coincidence or something more cosmic? You decide. All we know for sure is that Nevada went right to work on the wine trail and is now trusted and adored by anyone lucky enough to ride him. Just as our guests love him, so do his herd mates. If a new horse has trouble integrating into the herd, Nevada is the first to befriend and help them through the transition. “He’s a guide for people and for horses,” says Pepper. “He truly is a dream horse to us.”
Take a peek at our brand spankin' new Tack Room
In the past few years we rehabilitated so many horses and helped them become
happy, healthy members of our wine trail herd, we outgrew our old tack room.
Our new tack room is so roomy it has a personalized space for every horse’s own saddle and bridle.
It's easy to tell who's out on a ride: just look in the tack room to see which bridles are missing.
And our old tack room has been completely renovated and became the Bunkhouse Boutique,
featuring Tiffany’s jewelry creations, designer cowboy hats and other Western trappings.
Saddle up!
Let's go riding!
