Oh! That wasn’t directed at anyone. I was correcting myself.
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Gotcha.
I only know of him because for a while FB was showing me a lot of Sandy Sharkey’s photos. I wish I could fix the algorithm. Now all it shows me is baby things - I don’t and won’t ever have kids, bring back the horses!
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Wow. If that’s a legit bid, that seems like a lot of money for that baby. But I guess the money goes to support the BLM program, right?
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This article is focused on controversy over weaning her at 6 months, but it gives a little backstory to this filly. Her name is Thora, her sire was Thor.
More story (and baby pics!)
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"Proceeds from the sales of wild horses and burros are used for the BLM’s wild horse and burro adoption program, as directed by Congress. "
https://www.blm.gov/programs/wild-horse-and-burro/adoption-and-sales/sales-program
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Oh wow! Nice sleuthing!
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Did Thora get a home with the rescue?
We’ll be picking up our burro in July.
Tony Douzenis is another popular photographer on IG who is supporting the efforts to save Thora.
I think that’s what they did. I saw an Instagram account for Thora’s family and they seemed to be raising money to buy her. Their first effort was to pressure the BLM to turn her back out, but that failed.
$60k?? That’s a little much.
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What i heard was that Thora was adopted by a single bidder and not a ‘rescue’, and also that she was paid for at 60k (plus 5$)
I have several mustangs. This one, he was 125. I think he’s 4 and i’m just now beginning to make some headway with him. he’s been a tough nut to crack! I’ve had him a year and have finally gained some trust. He’s not even in a halter yet. Some of them just take a whole lot of patience. Trout’s one of those. When i saw him in the online and saw how young he was, my thought was, Oh! He’s nice and young. He’ll gentle easily. Wronnnnnng!!! LOL. Handsome enough to make it worthwhile though.
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That is a gorgeous horse!
Rebecca
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Thanks. He has plenty of conformational faults, (steep shoulder, long pasterns, a cloudy eye) but i’ve always had a feeling for him. He ‘spoke to me’ in the BLM video. He’s grown in the year he’s been here, and i think he’s done now. I have not been able to measure him yet. Nor get his feet trimmed. But, i think before winter '24 is over those things will be accomplished.
You don’t get much in the BLM online auctions to go on. One thing about them though, they will take-back any of their auctioned horses during that first year for any reason and you will have the option of a replacement horse. Once the year is up, and you’ve satisfied the requirements and gain title though, they are the same as any horse you buy… You’re 100% responsible for them. It’s never occurred to me to send back a horse. Each one presents his/her own unique challenge. I think of them as a gift, there for me to open. This guy, Trout, he’s taught me so much. The harder they are, the more you learn!
Today will be a very exciting day for me. Another horse i got the same time as Trout here, named Quigley, hauls-in for his first lesson today. My hopes are: He loads! that’s the first thing… Then he is good with my coach leading him (so far only i and the farrier have done anything with him) and then he doesn’t react when i slip onto his bareback while coach holds him. Then he takes nice polite steps forward with me on his back. and finally, that i can dismount him without hurting a crunchy knee i have. OH, and that he loads back up to come home. It’s a lot to ask. But he’s ready and it’s time.
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JINGLING for a list of successful 1sts with Quigley.
&Now I need to check on your babies thread.
Need me some Hazel & Roslyn updates… 
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Thanks, i could use those Jingles! … i’ll go put up some foal pics from yesterday.
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I want a Quigley update, too. I hope he’s a good boy on his first day at school.
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Sure thing!!! i’ll be thrilled if he just loads both ways. We’ve been practicing, but…
Foal pictures? Where? I want to see.
Quigley’s adventure on Thursday:
Loading here went pretty smoothly, took us about 10 min *at most, for him to be loaded and ready to roll with Colton, my Standardbred gelding. Got there and he had many positive experiences. We ended a half hour early to allow for silliness loading, and it took TWO HOURS!!! My coach tried to teach him how to load with the help of strategic positioning of the trailer inside the arena and she/we got him loaded. I was inside coaxing, she was outside, Quig on a loose lead, and coach used a long stick gently albeit persistently tapping his rump. Plus we had a person at the door and another person holding a gate. I was pretty fraught with guilt as it was my poor judgement that deemed him ready to transport. Now…they told me there would be fireworks, and they said i shouldn’t get up in there…but: no fireworks, and i felt safe in there with him once he loaded up. He’s not at all ‘fighty’ …to people. Not-so if you’re a horse tho lol.
I’m SURE the reason he didn’t want to load is because the trip there was so long (2 hrs) and so unpleasant… Curvy hilly country roads. He will learn that this just a part of life, but it will have to be learned here and on more short trips. I don’t want to inconvenience so many people again.
It was a very expensive trip. A two-hour ‘lesson’ plus I paid my coach an extra 100 for her trouble (and to split however she wished with her barn help) and for making her next lesson have to be in the outside arena. I offered to pay the lady’s lesson for her but she wouldn’t accept.
Oh, and i never got all the way on him. Just a leg and also leaning across his back (my bellybutton to his spine). BUT…he got really good at standing beside the mounting block for me lol
some pics
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