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Thread #126242   Message #2803437
Posted By: Ebbie
04-Jan-10 - 05:41 PM
Thread Name: BS: History of horses in US
Subject: RE: BS: History of horses in US
"...that the Obama sadministration is rounding up..." - For the record, 'wild' horses have been rounded up annually for decades.my own family has bought some from time to time.

An aside: The first year that two brothers of mine each bought a horse from the roundup revealed the difference between a 'warm blooded' horse and one accustomed, probably for generations, to look out for herself. "Lady" was a bay mare with obvious quarter horse antecedents, and none too far back, the other "Mitzi", was mustang through and through.

Both brothers bred their mare and in due time they dropped foals. The difference in their child-rearing methods was astonishing.

Lady galloped anxiously behind her wandering offspring. Mitzi was all business; her colt hugged her side wherever they went.