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Comment by Barbara Chapel on October 31, 2009 at 6:14am

Hi,
I just bought myself my first horse and I am 51 yrs. young. She is a 5 yr.old 15.2 hh quarter horse. Her name was Philly, but I have changed it to "Sienna Rose". I am in love with her! Of course, Quarter horses Rock!

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Comment by Laurie Haughton on September 20, 2009 at 11:49pm

Hi everyone, I'm so glad to see that there is a group here already on Barn Mice for Quarter Horse fanatics!

I would just like to take a quick moment to introduce myself, I reside just out side of Ottawa Canada's capital city and I serve as a director for the Canadian Quarter Horse Association (CQHA). CQHA is an affiliate of Equine Canada through Breeds & Industry.

I'd like to invite you to visit the CQHA website at www.cqha.ca to learn more about us and possibly even to help address your concerns as Quarter Horse owners in Canada.

If ever you have an AQHA concern please know that both your CQHA directors and AQHA provincial directors are here to assist you.

Feel free to contact me at any time or add me as a friend here on Barn Mice

Comment by Candace M Hoke on September 15, 2009 at 2:48pm

If you feel compelled to support Cloud, please send more than prayer his way - if you can afford to do so. The group needs financial support as well.

Comment by Shirley on September 15, 2009 at 1:58am

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"Are They Still Real?"
A young girl's question rings true as we continue to lose our herds of wild mustangs to uncontrollable mismanagement by our own government. Here is an update on Cloud's capture and release and what you can do now. Plus a preview of the new show!


Dear Friends of Cloud and his herd;



On September 9th six of us stood atop a low hill near the corrals where the Pryor wild horses would be set free. The first band to be released was Cloud’s. But, the family was missing the young members of the band and Cloud knew it. Instead of racing to freedom as he has done twice before, he dashed in a circle around his mares and lone foal, Jasmine. Again and again he tried to snake them back toward the corrals where part of his family was held captive.



It is the stallion father’s job to keep the family together and we saw a display unlike anything I have ever seen as Cloud swept past his band trying to keep them from returning to the mountain top. The whole time wranglers on horse back drove the band and yelled at the horses, trying to get them to leave. Cloud paid no attention to the riders on their tall horses. Instead he tried in vain to reunite his splintered family. In the end the mares won, racing away with Cloud grudgingly following. With tears in our eyes, we watched him disappear into the desert.




Two days earlier we had stood on high hill over looking the corrals watching as bands were driven in from the mountain top through the desert. My heart dropped as I spotted the pale horse in the distance with his band. It was Cloud. The helicopter pilot dipped and swerved, doing its best to bring his family in through the desert foothills. With the Black in the lead, the band broke back time and again, as if knowing what lay before them. Finally, the helicopter was able to press them into the wings of the trap and Cloud took the lead. The Judas horse was released and raced past him. What happened next was a first for me. Cloud completely ignored the lure of the Judas horse! When the corral came into view he slowed and the band pushed in around him, trying to run away from the helicopter. Dust swirled around them as Cloud stopped and turned to face the chopper and stood still for a few seconds. Then, he turned following his family into the corral. I have never seen this kind of defiant courage . . . ever.

And so, I ask that we take his lead. Courage is what we need now. Courage and tenacity.

We must keep up the fight.


photo above: Living Images by Carol Walker


SHOW PREVIEW HERE. The new PBS Nature Cloud program, "Cloud: Challenge of the Stallions" will premiere on Sunday, October 25th - many of the horses you will meet in this third chapter now sit in pens at the base of their mountain home. Please help us lobby for the release of the older horses immediately. You can read and follow our frequent updates on The Cloud Foundation blog here.

TAKE ACTION NOW:

Ask for the release of the older horses from the Pryor Mountain roundup, it is cruel and nonsensical to remove Grumpy, 21 year old mare, Conquistador, a 19-year-old band stallion, and the 11 other horses over ten years old. Ask for the immediate reform of the BLM’s Wild Horse and Burro Program, call daily and fax your comments as well!

1. White House Switchboard – 202-456-1414 (fax: 202-456-2461) -- Ask for Senior Advisors: Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod. Ask for Michelle Obama too, her office is receiving a tremendous number of calls and they need to continue.


2. Call your Senators – switchboard 202-224-3121 and ask that they support S1579, The Restore our American Mustang (ROAM) Act


3. Call the Senate Committee of Natural Resources – 202-224-4971 (fax 202-224-6163) Email here. ask that they push the ROAM Act through immediately– it must go up for a vote soon in the Senate


4. .Join us for for the next Advisory Board Meeting and "Mustangs on the Hill"- Sept. 28 & 29th

Please join me and many others at the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board Meeting in Arlington, VA on September 28th (click here for information). Make your voice heard – and then join us in DC on the hill for meetings with key members of the Senate as well as upper-level whitehouse and Department of Interior staff the following day. Our wild horses' hoofbeats need to be heard in Washington DC! More details to follow to be posted on our blog soon.








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Comment by Candace M Hoke on September 10, 2009 at 4:16pm

Glad to see you have made it to this site! Price - poor child - had never seen jumps at that height. He was very brave. He's already qualified for 2010 in the jumping & eq over fences. I will try to get him qualified in more. Lily is qualified in jumping to date. One of these days I will get to go last instead of 1st in the jump off. I don't know when as I have been trying to be the last in the j.o. for more than 20 years.

AQHA is apparently restructuring. Billy Steele is no longer there except for contract work such as the Bayer Select. Neither is Larry Myerscough. And they are too old - according to Billy - to get judge cards.

Comment by Candy Wilcox on September 10, 2009 at 3:05pm

Way to go, girl!!! Haven't been keeping up too much with shows lately so am really glad to hear you're doing so well, and I'm glad your horses are doing so great, too! Of course, I never had any doubt about you and yours. You always do fantastic, and I'm always glad to hear how well you did. Next year...you'll be VERY close to the top, I have no doubt!!

Comment by Candace M Hoke on September 7, 2009 at 10:10pm

FYI - just got in from Bayer Select World with the first timers - Cause Im Better aka Lily and The Right Cause aka Price. I was first to go on Lily in the jump off. At that point it is all or nothing. Lily ended up 4th in jump off due to the last rail down. Price got the shock of his life as he was stepping up from hunter hack and hunter this year. He had never gone 3'6" and ended up with 2 rails down in the jump off for a 7th. Wonderful time! Very proud as they had the least amount of miles of any of their competitors in the event.

Comment by Shirley on September 6, 2009 at 1:12am

My Buckskin Quarter Horse

Comment by angelea @ HorseGirlTV on August 7, 2009 at 12:38pm

yah! i grew up on quarter horses in texas! america's horse! :)

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