SMILEY, Texas (AP) — After many years, Darla Cherry decided she'd had enough of training horses and wanted to save them instead.

The San Antonio Express-News reports so about a decade ago, she took over what is today the nonprofit Meadow Haven Horse Rescue and Sanctuary, a 45-acre spread in Smiley that, for many of the 228 neglected, mistreated and otherwise abused horses currently living there, will be their final, forever home.

"As long as they're not in extreme pain and are able to stand on their own, they can live here as long as they are able," said Cherry.

Horses come to spend their suns...