Recently a stunning wild Corolla Spanish mustang was hit by a car and had to be put down. One more of these nearly extinct horses is gone. This is one of the reasons that the off site breeding program is so important.
Swimmer is about five and produces beautiful colts. She had to be captured because of her ability to swim out of the relative safety of the wild horse area. She is the largest wild Corolla mare that I have seen. I believe that she is 14 or 14.1.
Last summer my little riders and I gentled her and started her to saddle. In less than thirty days after her capture she completed the September 20, 2008 46 Mile Ride. She gave her rider no problem on the ride, but for her normal Corolla tendency to prefer trotting to cantering (many of these horses trot nearly as fast as they canter).
And now she stands around at a wonderful horse facility in North Carolina awaiting adoption. Gentle, big, well started under saddle--what more could one ask for?
Swimmer's adopter will be able to bring her to Mill Swamp Indian Horses to breed her to the Corolla stallion of the adopter's choosing.
Adopting Swimmer will not only give the adopter a great horse but will be an important step in helping to save these horse's from extinction. What do you have to do this spring that is more important than that.
(Swimmer is deep in this cloud of dust beginning to start the last leg of the one day 46 mile ride. The picture was taken from a distance and is a bit hard to see, but if you look closely you will see that she looks exactly like the one that you should adopt)
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