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SPARKY from the Calico Mountains (NV 222) - mustang colt adopted in 2001
Here's a quick photo show of Sparky, by year. For more in-depth story/web-blog, see links at bottom of the page.
2001 Sparky was born in the Calico Mountains, North of Gerlach, Nevada, in the fall of 2000. He was captured as an orphan on December 18, 2000. Mike and I made an adoption appointment at Palomino Valley BLM Corrals for January 30, 2001. Since this would be my first horse project, I decided to stack the cards in my favor and choose a youngster. I picked Sparky out of a pen of weanlings.
Here is Sparky that day - I adopted him then, but couldn't bring him home until his brand had been inspected and he had a Coggins test, so that he would be legal to cross state lines.
Unfortunately, while waiting for the Coggins and brand inspection, he and most of his herd-mates came down with strangles, so the whole facility was quarantied and he could not be released to go home until mid-April
April 18, Sparky comes home; April 19, Sparky begins gentling
CADAMA Playday Trail Course: We won First Prize! Benny, Sparky & Ruby are BLM Ambassadors at the Brentwood Adoption
Santa Claus Parade in Downtown Napa
Riding at home
2005:
2005: Sparky goes to Napa Schools Farm Day
2005: Sparky and Ruby & Benny go to Pt. Reyes - their first long trail ride - 14 miles round trip from parking lot to beach and back.
2006:
2006: Jerry Tindell Riding Clinic
2006: Outstanding in our field 2006: Tindell Driving Clinic (makeshift "harness")
2006: Trail riding at Skyline Park in Napa
2006: Jerry Tindell "Spook" Clinic
2006 CADAMA Playday
Sparky's first trick: "Give Me A Kiss"
2006: First Horse Camping Trip: Warner Wilderness
Warner Wilderness: Happy Trails! Teaching 'Lie Down"
Tindell Clinic: Come to the fence for mounting
2007:
Winter 2007: Sparky gets a real harness Giving grand-niece, Steffi, a ride
August 2007
January 2007: Raye Lockert clinic and Arena practice
Summer 2007: Little Benjamin from Singapore rode Sparky and learned what he wants to be when he grows up: a Cowboy!
Spring 2007: Trail Riding at Skyline Park
September, 2007: The Fearful Crossing Wagon Train Ride - 71 miles from Lovelock to Fallon, NV over the Humboldt Sink to the Carson Sink to the Carson River
October 2007: "Fun With Sparky The Mustang" demo at the Longears Cele-Bray-Tion in Red Bluff, CA
2008 With other riders from the Napa Valley Horsemens Asociation at Skyline Park, in April of 2008
Sparky is fully mature now, and what a nice guy he is! Totally kind, yet full of mischief. My riding instructor calls him "a rocket scientist trapped in a clown suit."
We're riding more than ever now, taking advantage of the wonderful parks in the Bay Area withint easy driving distance of home.
We're also continuing to work - sporadically - on trick training. Sparky has the tricks I've taught him in previous years down pat - now I just need to teach him some new ones.
At Bodega Dunes State Park in April
"Mustang Ambassadors" at a BLM adoption in April, 2008
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