LOVELL, WY –September 26, 2009 — All 57 either adopted or to sold to good homes.
4 bands of Forest Service horses, 15 total including Floyd and Conquistador and his mare will be kept together at ranch.
Ember and Image get to stay together, have a great home, also adopted into great homes were Arrow, Rain, Helena Montana, Stiles, Cassidy, the lame foal with his mom, who is looking better, and Ginger got Sax.
Conquistador had the record bid – $2500
Huge thanks to all the Freedom Fund donors and all the supporters who made this possible – this is a big win.
While Americans on holiday, Labor Day weekend round up decimates herd as winter arrives
LOVELL, WY –September 26, 2009 – On Saturday at noon, 57 wild horses from the Pryor Mountain Wild Mustang Herd, made famous in part by the PBSNature documentaries, will be auctioned off to the highest bidders. A large crowd is expected due, in part, to the publicity surrounding the controversial roundup earlier this month.
While the missing members of their herd wait, tagged and branded in BLM holding pens, the damages of this poorly planned roundup are highly visible on the range. Beyond leaving this unique wild horse herd seriously below genetic viability, the horses on the range are clearly damaged.
“We were up on the mountaintop yesterday and the cruelty of this massive roundup has not faded away,” explains Ginger Kathrens, Volunteer Executive Director of the Cloud Foundation. “Cloud is lame on his right front and his filly-daughter is still extremely sore. It was painful just watching them walk to water.”
One of Cloud’s mares, also injured, appears to have a possible stifle injury. His four-year-old daughter, Firestorm, has significant difficulty walking at all. “I think they will recover but it is hard to know and winter is just around the corner,” Kathrens continues. In the past 15 years all roundups in the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range have occurred later in the year when the horses were lower down on the range. This roundup took place in early September when nearly all the mountain horses were the furthest away possible from the trap site. Foals less than one month old were forced to run over 12 miles along with their families to the BLM corrals at the base of the mountain.
This roundup was scheduled early due to contractor availability, BLM desire to remove all horses from Commissary Ridge outside the designated range (a plan not revealed to the public until day one of the roundup) and National Adoption Day. The BLM is holding adoption events across the country and hopes to adopt out 1000 horses. “This is a significant event and will raise awareness for mustangs, but why they had to pillage this little herd for 57 more horses to adopt out when there are 31,750 wild horses in holding already is beyond me,” says Kathrens.
SAUGERTIES, NY (September 26, 2009) — Sulu Rose-Reed had the perfect tune up for tomorrow’s $100,000 USGPL Invitational Grand Prix when she rode The Galloping Field’s Leondor to the blue in Friday’s $25,000 Devoucoux Wild Card Grand Prix at HITS Commonwealth Park in Culpeper, Virginia.
Reed and Leondor bested a field of 34 starters in the first round and a group of nine that moved onto International Course Designer Olaf Petersen Sr.’s track on her way to scoring $7,500 in first-place prize money. Reed, who was already qualified for Sunday’s big-ticket event, will look for a repeat effort aboard Leondor when the field of 31 riders tackle Petersen’s route tomorrow.
The Devoucoux Wild Card Grand Prix offered riders who were not already in the field of 30 qualified riders one final chance to qualify for the big-ticket class. When the class was complete it was up-and-coming rider Sloane Coles who earned a spot in the prestigious class. Coles snagged the white ribbon aboard her horse Louisiana and will show first in Sunday’s $100,000 USGPL Grand Prix. Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=8279
Upper Marlboro, MD – September 26, 2009 – The Capital Challenge Horse Show opened up competition today at the Show Place Arena. This is the first day of Equitation Weekend, which is presented by BigEq.com. Today there were championships for equitation divisions split by age as well as the North American Junior Flat Equitation Championships. Cayla Richards of Calabasas, CA, was a big winner after she took the 15 Year Old Equitation Championship and outlasted top riders to win the Flat Championships.
Richards, who trains with Jenny Karazissis, finished first, first, and second in her equitation division. She rode Asparagus, the horse she rode last year to the 13/14 Year Old Championship. “Last year was my first time back East with Asparagus, so we were more trying to get experience and have a good time. We did well last year. This year, I wanted to win; it wasn’t just for experience. We had higher expectations,” she explained.
She noted that her championships on the first day of competition were “definitely a confidence booster.” She added, “I came here for practice for the Medal Finals, so it gets my name out there and gets me confident in the indoor ring against more competitors.” Read more> http://www.horsesinthesouth.com/article/article_detail.aspx?id=8277
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