Galaxy - The Mustang with the blue eyes
California: Galaxy - The young mustang with blue eyes
Mustang Galaxy enjoying the training with Mia and having fun with the rocking board. See thevideo above. Remember to turn on sound.
Galaxy is one of the wild Mustangs captured in a federal round-up in the desert, and luckily ended up at the Mustang rescue Return to Freedom, where he’ll have a good and free life.
A young girl has adopted and sponsors him. But being wild, he had never been ridden, so she hadn’t been able to ride him yet. I worked with him for a full day, starting with groundwork and establishing leadership.
Later, I gave him his first riding experience. It was a good one — I allowed enough time for him to choose to accept me on his back, riding freely and without equipment, just as I prefer for first rides.
Not only are the Mustangs among the most clever and natural horses we have on earth, but they also - like all horses, but especially so the mustangs - have a lot of humor. They are also very strong, curious and easy to engage in new fun activities."
"There is incredible knowledge to gain about natural horse behavior and horse wellfare in studying the wild horses. And this I actually possible at sanctuaries in different states."
My day with Galaxy was at the 'Return to Freedom' Centre in California.
They provide a safe heaven to almost 400 wild horses and over 50 burros.
Across 1500 acres on the Central Coast of California, the organization provides an environment for the herds to maintain the natural behaviors and social structures they knew in the wild. Closely working together with a network of other wild horse rescue centers in California and in other states, re-homing rescued mustangs.
In the network they are tracing the story of each wild horse by their freeze marks and this way they will know from what area and what herd they were originally captured. And they are always working on bringing back natural families and naturally selected social groups. In the sanctuary the horses are able to live free as wild horses again.
In the wild the herd ensures the survival and therefore it is a priority to let them live together in their original family-bands or naturally selected social groups. Living free in the wild, in the herds they were born into, makes them very strong, trusting and healthy horses.
