Horse Helping Horses

Horses Helping Horses

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From a distance, the open prairie is breathtaking. Up close it is treacherous. Yucca blades can slice tender flesh, legs can twist in prairie dog holes and rattlesnakes coil behind sandstone outcroppings. A foal born in this environment has to be smart and alert just to survive. The horses raised at the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary have developed senses, unusual intelligence and superb athletic ability that help them avoid hazards on the ground.

Horses Helping Horses is the most important program at the Sanctuary. It enables us to use our best resources –our horses- to support the wild mustangs. Proceeds from foals sales go directly to providing everything from salt licks to winter hay. Through Horses Helping Horses, you have the opportunity to buy superb horses wile helping America’s wild mustangs.

Wild Horse History

Long ago all horses were wild animals. They ran free in large herds, or bands across the vast grasslands all over the world. In the United States they were a prairie animal along with the bison and elk. When the climate in North America changed the early horses called dawn horses died out. The plains of the west were silent from the thunder of horse herds running until the explorers came to the New World looking for riches. to learn more about the history of wid horses click here

Foal Sales: American Spanish and Sulphur Mustangs

This herd is made up of descendants from the tame horses brought to North America in the 1500’s by the Spanish and Portuguese conquistadors. They were strong, fast and sturdy horses that carried the explorers through the jungles and across the deserts in search of gold in the New World. In the 1600’s, Spanish settlers raised their tough little horses on cattle and sheep ranches in New Mexico. Some ranch horses escaped to live in the wild. The free-running horses came to be called “mustangs,” probably from the Spanish word meaning mesteno, which means stray or free-running animal.

Two stallions sire foals from the American Spanish and Sulphur Mustang herd of mares. Some of the mares were born in the wild, others are descendants from wild horses from the Kiger HMA, Sulphur HMA or directly from Spain or Portuguese bloodlines. The beautiful line back dun stallion with zebra stripes on his legs is Don Juan. He was born in captivity from wild horses from the Sulphur Mustang Herd Management areas in the west. The veteran bay roan range stallion Texas Pony Syndicate with a crooked ear, is a Spanish Mustang stallion born in captivity from wild stock founded by the Brislawn Family.

Foal Sales: Mustangs

As settlers brought other horses and ponies into North America the wild horse herds became a melting pot of many different breeds as the escaped stock joined the Spanish and Portuguese horses already running free. These wild horses roamed the grasslands and are the ancestors of the unadoptable wild mares that make their home on the Sanctuary.

Each year wild mustang foals are available from Painted Desert, our wild Medicine Hat stallion, Bucky, the buckskin stallion, Prairie Hawk, a beautiful black and white tobiano stallion, or "Boss" Simon's Jay, the first stallion to come to the herd in 1994 –he's a black and white overo. Mustang foals are the spectacular result of natural selection, they gentle quickly to make great companion animals.

Years of survival have created pure and strong bloodlines, and our mustang foals have exceptional endurance, intelligence and sensory awareness…Come see Painted Desert, the kind of horse a chief might ride to heaven…

Foal Sales: Registered Paints and Quarterhorses

Foals are also available from the Sanctuary’s superb Registered Paint and Quarter mares and stallions. The herd sires include AQHA palomino stallions Hunts Lonesome Frost and Ole Sugar Alamitos and APHA black and white tobiano stallion Docs Smooth Playboy. The registered horses are the culmination of decades of careful breeding. These foals are show quality and make exceptional pleasure or ranch horses. Our stallions and mares are selected for their agreeable dispositions and all have excellent bloodlines.

Foundation Bloodlines

Sugar Bars Sun Frost Orphan Bear
Three Bars Peppy San Badger Northern Dancer
Top Moon Frenchman’s Guy PC Sun Socks
Sak Em San Husler’s Ole Man Dash for Cash

Fancy Mustang and Registered Paints and Quarter Foals
Paints Roans Palominos Grullas Buckskins Medicine Hats Duns
$950-1850

Solid Mustang and Fancy Mustang Foals
Bays Blacks Sorrels
$650

Buckskins, Paints, Medicine Hats
$950-$1250

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President: Dayton O. Hyde
Secretary: Robert Friese
Treasurer: Richard Blue
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Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary
P.O. Box 998
Hot Springs, SD 57747
www.wildmustangs.com

A 501 c 3 non profit corporation
registered in the state of
South Dakota

Federal Tax Number
46-0401462

Toll Free: 1-800-252-6652
or 1-605-745-5955
Fax:1-605-745-4339
Email: iram@gwtc.net

Wildfire

This is a horse nobody wanted. As if she had no value because she was too little and too plain. To us she's beautiful beyond words – her frosted ears, her quick, wary ways, her tangled mane excite our senses. Born wild, she was hunted and trapped and nearly forgotten in a faraway stockyard. It broke our hearts to see her there. So we created a home – a sanctuary for her and others just like her. We set her free. We had to.

Texas Pony Syndicate Spanish Mustang Stallion, veteran herd sire

Painted Desert our Medicine Hat Paint, Wild Mustang Herd Sire...the kind of horse a chief might ride to heaven. Texas Pony Syndicate is a Spanish Mustang stallion.