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I.R.A.M. Sponsor Mustang, Champagne Lady
Words by Dayton O. Hyde
Narrated by Martin Meyer
Flute music written and performed by Windwalker, Wind Spirit Drum
From Imagine A Place Sponsor Mustangs DVD
Director | Editor - Christopher Crosby
Producers - Karla LaRive and Susan Watt
"When I first saw the Champagne filly she was a jug bellied little orphan whose old and weak mother had been killed by a mountain lion. My friend Susan saw her first and came running to tell me she had seen a strange yellow mustard baby with green eyes. We brought this little animal in to the corrals, where we happened to have a wild mare that had lost her foal. Champagne Lady lost no time in finding the mares source of milk, stubbornly ignoring the mares kicks, until the old mustang mare gave up and let her suck. Generally, I let wild horses be wild, but because her champagne color made the filly a genetic rarity, we kept her in the corrals with her foster mother until the little ladys coat shone with health and she had caught up in size with the other foals.
She is mature now and is as beautiful as any animal in the herd. Often I see Champagne Lady running wild across the prairie, able to leave her friends in the dust. In those moments it seems inconceivable that she would let me stroke her glistening neck and even scratch her ears. But when I come bumping and rattling across the prairie in my old pick-up truck and call her name, she leaves the rest of the herd behind to gallop to me, putting her head in the open window on the truck to search my pockets for shards of grain. One day soon she will have a baby of her own, and we hope and pray that she will give us another little champagne foal...." Dayton O. Hyde, Founder
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http://www.windspiritdrum.com/I.R.A.M. Sponsor Mustang, Champagne Lady
Words by Dayton O. Hyde
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I.R.A.M. Sponsor Mustang, Painted Desert
Words by Dayton O. Hyde
Narrated by Martin Meyer
Music written and performed by Martin Meyer and Windwalker (Wind Spirit Drum)
From Imagine A Place Sponsor Mustangs DVD
Director/Editor - Christopher Crosby
Producers - Karla LaRive and Susan Watt
"In order to limit the numbers of foals that are born to the wild herd, and thus having too many horses and too little grass, we take the stallions in to winter in special pastures where they become accustomed to humans. It is important that we halter-break each stallion so that they can be caught up on the range and led away from the mares. We never have to worry about Painted Desert. In the Spring, a month before the breeding season, he can be seen pacing the fence of the stallion pasture, wanting to get back with the girls. In the fall he is worn out with activity and comes in on his own, begging to be given a vacation.
He is a kind and gentle animal who can be fierce with rival stallions but is apt to stick his head in the door of a tour bus to greet the people. He looks at every face as though trying to locate someone he recognizes. Painted Desert, with his sorrel and white coat is a beautiful animal and his foals are much in demand by those who take the tour and see them..." Dayton O. Hyde, Founder
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http://www.greatsky.com/I.R.A.M. Sponsor Mustang, Painted Desert
Words by Dayton O. Hyde
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I.R.A.M. Sponsor Mustang, Painted Desert
Words by Dayton O. Hyde
Narrated by Martin Meyer
Music written and performed by Martin Meyer and Windwalker (Wind Spirit Drum)
From Imagine A Place Sponsor Mustangs DVD
Director/Editor - Christopher Crosby
Producers - Karla LaRive and Susan Watt
"In order to limit the numbers of foals that are born to the wild herd, and thus having too many horses and too little grass, we take the stallions in to winter in special pastures where they become accustomed to humans. It is important that we halter-break each stallion so that they can be caught up on the range and led away from the mares. We never have to worry about Painted Desert. In the Spring, a month before the breeding season, he can be seen pacing the fence of the stallion pasture, wanting to get back with the girls. In the fall he is worn out with activity and comes in on his own, begging to be given a vacation.
He is a kind and gentle animal who can be fierce with rival stallions but is apt to stick his head in the door of a tour bus to greet the people. He looks at every face as though trying to locate someone he recognizes. Painted Desert, with his sorrel and white coat is a beautiful animal and his foals are much in demand by those who take the tour and see them..." Dayton O. Hyde, Founder
http://wildmustangs.com/
http://www.greatsky.com/I.R.A.M. Sponsor Mustang, Painted Desert
Words by Dayton O. Hyde
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I.R.A.M. Sponsor Mustang, Ghost Dancer's Shadow
Words by Dayton O. Hyde
Narrated by Martin Meyer
Flute music written and performed by Windwalker, Wind Spirit Drum
From Imagine A Place Sponsor Mustangs DVD
Director | Editor - Christopher Crosby
Producers - Karla LaRive and Susan Watt
"Up on the high reaches of the Sanctuary, summer winds are a constant, sending light clouds scudding across the sky, and their shadows racing across mountain meadows. This land was one of the Sanctuarys original BLM mares Ghost Dancers domain and is where we are most likely to find her daughter.
Ghost Dancers Shadow, a dun and white paint born on the open range, is as shy and elusive as her mother. Scan the groups of wild horses grazing those high prairies and you are likely to see one animal standing on the edge of the herd watching your every move. No eagle soars about the rimrocks, no coyote slinks through the tall grasses in search of cottontails, no prairie dogs bark warning of approaching danger, without Shadow being aware of all happenings. Like her mother Shadow hates to be looked at. One has only to glance at her and she seems to feel your gaze. Her snort of fear is a thunderclap sending her band into instant flight. It is this wildness inherent in her genes that has protected wild horses from danger throughout the centuries..." Dayton O. Hyde, Founder
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I.R.A.M. Sponsor Mustang Prairie Lonesome
Words by Dayton O. Hyde
Narrated by Martin Meyer
Music written and performed by Martin Meyer
From Imagine A Place Sponsor Mustangs DVD
Directed/Edited by Christopher Crosby
Producers, Karla LaRive and Susan Watt
"Once last year I heard the thunder of a hundred hooves, saw summer dust billowing above the pines as wild horses raced each other for first place at the water hole along the Cheyenne River. I watched them from a grove of giant cottonwoods and was glad for their freedom here on the sanctuary.
For an instant, however, I froze. Prairie Lark, who usually led them was not to be seen. Fearing the worst, I hurried up the ridge looking for the old blue roan mare who had been one of my favorites.
Suddenly, I saw movement-the flick of a horses tail against a pester of flies. Prairie Lark stood in the shade of a giant juniper, and stretched out at her feet was a lovely black and white foal, It was my first glimpse of the pretty filly we now call Prairie Lonesome. The old mare nudged the baby to its feet and with wobbly uncertain legs it chased after its mother. Prairie Lonesome is now four years old and is one of the handful of horses we designate as sponsorship horses. . . . " Dayton O. Hyde
http://www.wildmustangs.comI.R.A.M. Sponsor Mustang Prairie Lonesome
Words by Dayton O. Hyde
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