LRTC Wild Horse Mentors in Virginia City

KBR Wild Horse and Burro Information Sheet

LRTC
Wild Horse Mentors in
Virginia City, NV
April 28, 2000

For those of you who follow the adventures of the LRTC Wild Horse Mentors, you'll remember that country singer Lacy J. Dalton, Steven Earl Swinford and Aaron Anderson came to Golden, CO and put on a great benefit concert for the wild horse mentoring program at Wild Horse Workshop 2000. Their performance came near the end of the workshop and we were a tired and small but wiry crowd, but they played their hearts out and gave us an incredible and much needed emotional lift.

Aaron and Lacy created the Let 'Em Run Foundation that works closely with and supports the Virginia Range Wildlife Protection Association to protect the Virginia Range Wild Horses. We felt it only appropriate to repay the favor by doing a little mentoring up in Virginia Range country the first chance we got. The VRWPA had members, adopters and potential mentors who wanted some additional horse gentling ideas so they arranged use of the Virginia City Rodeo Grounds for a day and brought over some Virginia Range horses to work with and demonstrate.

A small and wiry but enthusiastic crowd showed up that windy Saturday for "Gentling Wild Horses 101." VRWPA brought in three Virginia Range "Comstock" horses, and we brought "Keno the Untrainable." LRTC Mentors included Willis & Sharon Lamm and Janet & Cliff Tipton. We also had Michael Horrigan, who directs the prison horse training program at Warm Springs, drop by and demonstrate how to use a "Safe Squeeze Chute." Two of the Comstock horses were recent captures (a blanketed appy was still a stud) and the third was already adopted but had some human contact but was wary of ropes, strange men, etc.