Warrior's Band

Warrior's band! Warrior is this nice white stallion. To the right is Diva, his daughter.

Warrior has spectacular youngsters, including the two pinto colts.

The mare on the left is Shiva, she has been Warrior's lead mare since the round up. She is a minimalist pinto and an excellent brood mare. She has had a new foal this year, but she does not have one every year.

Shiva

Warrior

Diva, with the unusual stripe, is Shiva's daughter. I believe she was born in 2010. She has her own foal now. Most likely sire is Mr Bojangles, Warrior's faithful satellite stallion.

I love this old guy. He takes good care of his small family. I have noticed he is much more tolerant towards people. To think their are people thinking about giving our stallions chemical vestectomies sickens me. They would have to shoot them from a helicopter with tranqualizer guns then due some weird procedure. It would be a "pilot program". Myself and other friends of these mustangs are going to make sure this doesn't happen! I believe SWAT has taken a stand against this.

The grey/white pinto is stunning! A real stand out! My friend called him by another color ... I remember when he was born, I saw him as a newborn. He went lame his first year for awhile, but recovered completely.In my opinion, he will be totally grey like his sire.
Shakti

There are a couple of people who have focused on finding new foals this year. They are the ones who put names on them, you can go to Sand Wash Basin Wild Horse face book page and see all in the 2014 foals album. Here the photographers have come together and created a beautiful album. Heather Robson of New Zealand compiles them. It really is a group effort. The naming usually goes well, but can cause tremendous strife among advocates. We all love this herd equally and have different ideas on what should or should not happen to them. We have 2 documentations going on the 2014 foals, the other is by Aleta on the SWAT face book page. Hopefully this winter we can work on the yearling-5 yr old albums. This is a lot of work, but many of us feel like it will help the wild horses to have them recorded.

Warrior's amazing colts
Shakti and Arroyo

This is Mr. Bojangles, Warriors satellite stallion. He is really good at what he does, he helps Warrior keep his family together and safe.

Lame Foal in Warrior's Band (Shakti)

Warrior's Band

It was nice to bump into Warrior and his small band. I had not seen them for quite awhile. Warrior is the grey here shown with his one mare, Shiva, her 2 yr old son, Shane and her 2011 filly, Diva.

That's Bojangles. their satellite stallion.

I did not meet this stallion until this spring. Last summer Shiva and Shane were with Cortez and Bojangles was a bachelor stallion.

Diva

The wild horses get their nerve up and do a trot by. I love it when they do this.

They get a good look (and smell) of me.

OK that was enough! Let's go!

The pretty mare, Shiva. She has real classic Sand Wash good looks.

I like Diva's funny little stripe. I think she will live up to her name!

Bojangles gets right in there and mingles with this band.

More Mystery White

I spot the pinto mare, her son and new filly. This time I try to get a bit closer. I know this band is shy. The only mare, Shiva, is a beautiful sorrel splashed with pinto markings. Last fall she had been with Cortez. Now she is with a white stallion I have not ID'd.
Here is the white stallion. The HSUS girl had warned me the white stallions out here are the hardest to identify....she's right! Just when I thought I had seen them all a new one comes along and in the mean time some just seem to vanish. It would take a dedicated group of people to document this whole herd.
This is the two year old colt we call Shane. We have a lot of 2 year olds on the range. There were some 60 born in 2009. No telling how many are still around, but more then 3 year olds. Every single weanling rounded up in Oct 2008 was removed....those would have been the 3 year olds...
Both mom and filly have little turned up noses. They are very cute. I hope I see them again soon. You just never know who you are going to run in out here!
Off they go. In the foreground is the young stud, Bojangles. He seems to be a cooperating satellite stallion. Last year he ran with some of the ridge bachelors.
Mr. Bojangles, learning the ways of his home range, Sand Wash Basin, Colorado. Long may he run!