professional wild horse racers association

Smith is also president of the National Tribal Horse Coalition, and has been lobbying for horse slaughter.Īnd, there are Wild Horse Races in Wyoming. There are even Wild Colt Races for kids 11 and younger to participate in. It seems there is even a Professional Wild Horse Racers Association (PWHRA).

(Ladd Drummond has a contract for a BLM long term holding facility.) Apparently, her husband, Ladd Drummond, participated in a Wild Horse Race and got kicked. And took some pictures, which were on her blog. Even Pioneer Woman wrote about these races). Why would someone have “little, if any” contact with a horse in their care on their property? Wouldn’t they have to drive out to feed the horse in the winter? Wouldn’t a horse need a farrier? Wouldn’t horses need vaccinations? (Horses are now being vaccinated for West Nile Virus in Utah.) So, in other words, there has been a lack of, or extremely lax, reporting procedures and accountability by BLM of the wild horse & burro foals.Īnyhow, back to the sources of “wild horses” used in Wild Horse Races.

The discrepancy results from the reporting procedures currently used by the Bureau…” Remember the “discrepancy” between Palomino Valley’s facility reports and rendering records for the same time period? And BLM’s response was “We welcome the public’s interest in this matter and acknowledge that the horse mortality numbers being reported at BLM facilities are lower than the numbers invoiced by BLM-contracted rendering facilities that dispose of horse remains. It seems the BLM hasn’t kept track of the foals born to wild horses and burros. Some wild horse mares may have even been used to breed bucking stock. After the BLM sells wild horses in bulk sales (many horses, often by the truckload), it seems they don’t know where the horses go. You might wonder if any of our wild horses, or their offspring, might in some instances have ever been used in any rodeo Wild Horse Races. (But, should any horse be treated in the way they’re treated in Wild Horse Races?) Reading the article (below) that was in the Wyoming news, you might wonder how many “pastures” contain “wild horses” that have had “ little, if any, contact with humans?” It could very well be that only “unbroken” horses are used in these Wild Horse Races.

Professional wild horse racers association