Adagio is one of those horses that we are truly blessed to have ever had on the farm.  Adagio was a rescue.  Her owner just didn't have the time that Adagio needed, and was therefor left in her stall most of the time.  She didn't have enough space to roll safely or run around like thoroughbreds are created to do.  The first time I saw Adagio, she was just turned out into a covered arena so she could get some exercise before I took her home.  The very first thing she did was roll.  Next she took of running around the arena.  Now she is a true 16 hand horse, and can look slightly intimidating when she is booking it as she was then.  Once she settled down though, she was as good as gold.  She loved to be loved on and petted.  We loaded her into my horse trailer and away we went.  Once we got home and let Adagio out of the trailer, I figured she would run around the pasture with my other two horses and pretty much just go crazy.  But she suprised us once again.  She lazily meandered around the pasture only stopping to play in the mud puddles.  She got along great with my other horses as well.  The next few days I just let her settle in, and that she did.  In a few days, she had established herself lead mare!  She would come up to me every morning and night and walk me to the barn.  She honestly loved to spend time with people.  After a few days, I started to work with her.  The first time in the roundpen enforced something her owner had told me.  She had been severly beaten by lunge whips.  Everytime she did something "wrong" her owner would beat her.  As long as you didn't use a lung whip with her, she was fine.  So I just usually used a broken whip that didn't have the tail on it, or sometimes I didn't have to use a whip at all and just communicated using my body.  She was also very herd bound.  The first time I took her away from my other two horses, she freaked out.  But time took care of that problem.  She always got along great with horses.  In her eyes, the more horses the better!  As the weeks went on, Adagio gained weight, and conquored her other problems.  I was even able to put all of my beginner riders on her, and she was great with them.  But as with all of my project horses, there comes a time where they have come to the point where you wanted them to, and you know its time to find their new home.  Adagio was very hard to do this with.  She had come very attached to me and I to her.  I think she knew that if I hadn't come and gotten her, she would have been in a stall for most of her life.  At my farm, she was able to be a horse and run around or get dirty if she so wished.  The day she left my farm was a very sad day for my family and I.  She walked right into the trailer like a champ.  I went to say goodbye to her and after that, she left.  Adagio was an ex race horse.  She had a heart of gold, and could run like the wind.  I'll never forget what it was like to be upon her back when she was running.  She was a remarkable horse and we will never forget her.