time to time the Forest Service still calls when they need to fi nd a home range for a special wild horse. Yellow Hills Ranch and Monero Mus-
tangs welcomes visitors to spend the day observing the Mustangs in their natural environment. Sharing her knowledge about these unique horses is Sandi ’s passion and she encourages you to come see them for yourself. On a typical visit to Monero Mustangs, she will guide visitors around the ranch to see the horses in their favorite places and explain the history and the stories of each of the Mustang families.
HORSE INFORMATION Visit
www.moneromustangs.org to learn more about these elegant horses and
the struggle to protect them. Tours are the main source of funds to keep Monero Mustangs operating, and they off er photographers unequaled opportunities for great pictures. Another important source of funds is sponsorship. T is is an exciting way to be involved with these magnifi cent wild horses. T ese are very personalized sponsorships where you can sponsor a horse of your choice, and Monero Mustangs will keep you informed of their progress during the year with pictures and diaries.
Roja with her brand-new son Mujeriego; his name translates as “Ladies Man,” and he is a handsome boy. Photo by Helen Cary
Working long distance with Desiree Goodall, a 16-year-old volunteer living in Montana, Sandi is currently creating a com- prehensive registry of all the horses at Monero Mustangs. T is is very important because should anything happen to Sandi, without this registry the identifi cation, history and other facts, such as health and person- alities of these horses would be lost forever.
A future goal of Monero
Mustangs is to open an educa- tional center that will include a Colonial Spanish Horse mu- seum and a research facility for DNA and historical data. With the welcome home at Yellow Hills Ranch, Sandi and Ila’s
dream of saving this tiny strain of horses and educating the public about the treasure we have in our midst has become a reality. T anks to one woman’s passion and devo-
tion, the Monero Mustangs are “still wild” and running free.
Dutch Henry is a novelist and freelance writer who writes about “People & Horses Helping Horses & People.” He resides
in Virginia with his wife of 35 years, Robin, along with his horse and dogs, cats and chickens. You can reach Dutch at dutch-
henry@hughes.net. He would love to hear from you. His novel “We’ll Have the Sum- mer” is available on Amazon and Dutch’s website
www.dutchhenryauthor.com
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