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I just returned from the Mtn Region Wyoming Wild Horse Ride held this year 
for the first time on the McCullough Peaks Wild Horse Range . This was an 
outstanding ride , the trails were excellent with hardly a rock on them , 
great vets,  great awards and a home cooked barbecue dinner each night after 
the ride . But the most spectacular part of this ride was that we got to 
ride through the range where the local wild horses travel daily . I did not 
talk to one person at the ride who did not see wild horses . I rode the 50's 
both days and must of seen between 40 to 50 horses while riding . .On day 
two on the 50 mile ride there were 7 of us frontrunners at the second vet 
check at about 40 miles and we were treated to a once in a lifetime event 
that I have to tell you about . There were 4 of us riders in the check when 
one of the ride helpers walked over a hill right behind the vet check where 
there was a water reservoir , she walked onto about 25 to 30 wild horses 
getting a drink of water and spooked them , the horses then ran out from 
behind the hill where we could see them which was only a couple hundred 
yards away from where the VC was . It was absolutely breathtaking and 
amazing to watch , the horses started running and milling around as there 
were about 6 foals with the herd and one of them  a little buckskin foal had 
been born the night before so was not able to keep up , the herd ran away 
from the mare and new foal and then the stallion brought the herd back to 
the mare and new foal and gathered them up just as 3 more riders came into 
the check . We all just stood there in amazement and I believe every one of 
us forgot about the ride for at least 30 minutes as we watched these horses 
, the colors were beautiful , bays , grays , pintos , buckskins , blacks , 
chestnuts , it was beautiful and just as we thought it just couldn't get any 
better than this , over the hill comes a dark gray bachelor stallion and 
try's to steal some mares from the two herd stallions one which was a young 
buckskin stud and the other an older bay stud . There were some mock charges 
and then finally the gray gave up and the herd moved off and we were back 
into ride mode . At awards on Sunday evening a BLM horse was raffled off and 
a lucky rider won a very nice broke mustang ready to take home and start 
conditioning on a $25.00 ticket . I will definitely be back next year and I 
highly recommend this ride to anyone else looking for a great ride and maybe 
even a " wild horse experience " if they are as lucky as we were .
                                                                            
Drin Becker
                                                                            
Mtn Region 


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