“It seemed there was never a horse quite wild enough for me to ride! I loved a horse that bucked or ran like wild fire beneath me.” Riding horses that challenged her equitation skills led her first job after high school at Holly- wood Park racetrack. She hot-walked race horses after their exercise runs, earning an income while being in the presence of magnificent horses. She longed to ride the wind with them, but could not qualify as a jockey or even an exercise rider, as she weighed more than 115 pounds.


Kindsfather always


longed for a horse of her own, but never got one until last year, when she adopted her first mustang mare from the BLM in Nevada from the Owyhee HMA. Kindsfather named the wild beauty Oshunnah an Apache name meaning “Spirit of Earth”. But one horse wasn’t enough. Kindsfather learned that “Swirl”, a young mustang stallion she’d named, followed and photographed since his days as a foal, was in trouble! When the young stallions begin to show interest in mares, it is common for the lead stallion to boot them out of the family band.


Swirl got the boot, he was kicked out of his band. Swirl is a sweet boy, a


handsome bay with a white Swirling blaze. Being a lonely bachelor was not his idea of a happy life. When he showed aggressive interest in a domestic mare, the BLM was alerted and they brought him in. Swirl was gelded, freeze marked, and put up for adoption.


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