Susan Kayne’s Op-Ed about the pending raw deal for carriage horses is exactly right. The mayor’s compromise bill has no protection from slaughter for the horses, nor any oversight for the well-being of the horses, and is relegating them to stalls much too small for working horses!  SUSAN DAVIS | NYDN 02.03.2016

Care of Racehorses Important Even Long After Season Ends 
By Susan Kayne | October 30, 2017 READ MORE ...

​I’m Susan Kayne—author, poet, and founder of Unbridled.
I write with the horses, not about them. What lives here is not memoir, but witness. Not content, but communion.

Unbridled Truth is my personal writing sanctuary—a place of searing clarity and sacred reckoning.
A threshold between worlds, where the breath of a mare, the hush of the barn, the memory of suffering, and the miracle of survival all speak in their own language.

These are the stories that burn through the silence.
Some are soft. Some are searing. All are sacred.

I write to bear witness to the intelligence, agency, and emotional lives of horses—those rescued, remembered, and still waiting to be seen.
Because love never flinches. And neither will I.

This body of work is more than story—it is a sacred offering. It is the culmination of decades of struggle, study, and soulwork. Of writing, rewriting, and returning again and again to the page—not for perfection, but for truth. For presence. For justice.

What you read here are snapshots of my poetry, prose, and witness—my effort to translate the sacred into syllables, and to share what I’ve carried in my bones for a lifetime:the whoness of horses.Their being. Their brilliance. Their emotional depth, their intelligence, their social complexity—their quiet, unquestioning willingness to partner with us, even when we have failed them.

This is my heart on the page. A long, arduous, often lonesome journey that I’ve walked for one reason only: to create a kinder world for equines. To help readers not only see them, but feel them. To awaken a consciousness that knows these beings not as property, but as fellow souls.

Every word here has been fought for—lived, felt, and forged in the fires of experience. It is not simply about horses. It is about who they are in their own hearts, and who we become when we choose to truly listen. Please honor this work as you would honor them.

I invite you to read Mabel and Velvet’s stories—my first award-winning works. They are elder mares, rescued from neglect and slaughter bound stockyards. Brought home to Unbridled Sanctuary, we were blessed to walk with them through their golden years. Their final chapters were written not in silence, but in sanctuary. In dignity. In light. Let their stories change you. ~ Susan Kayne