The heritage of the American West is fragile. It is not an indestructible birthright that we may possess as our convenience permits. Like a garden, it must be cultivated to assure its abundance. The wild horse, descended from Spanish colonial blood stock, is a vibrant part of this heritage. So, as we return to the soil a portion of our harvest ... here, we give back to the Wyoming mustang, part of that which these desert horses have given to us.
Offering the resources of their horse ranch to the future of the wild horse and the preservation of its Wyoming heritage, Ned and Diana Twining have initiated a mustang training program under the guidance of Patti Colbert, Executive Director of the Mustang Heritage Foundation in Bertram, Texas. The Twinings and the Foundation, together, have designed an enhanced wild horse training program to be directed by Gerry and Tommy Gesell during the summer of 2009. This initiative will undertake the transformation and subsequent adoption of six wild horses, selected from a critical mustang age group, at the Twining 88 Ranch near Savery, Wyoming
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America's excess mustangs and burros by means of
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GERRY and TOMMY GESELL: "THE YOUNG HORSE PROGRAM"
Tommy and Gerry Gesell have devoted their Young Horse Program to a solid foundation by building trust, confidence, respect and a constructive work ethic. With these basics in place, a young horse will accept discipline. The Young Horse Program is sensitive to a horse's God-given abilities and the rider's acquired characteristics with the goal of a mutual understanding between them.
Although the Wyoming Mustang is central to our western cultural history, it is a horse without an identity. And within this wild horse population, there is a critical age group that is slipping even further from the possibility of an identity. These mustangs are the mission we have selected to undertake.
Together with Ned and Diana Twining of the 88 Ranch near Savery, Wyoming and with the guidance of Patti Colbert of the Mustang Heritage Foundation, Gerry and Tommy Gesell will commit their Young Horse Program to developing the capabilities of both the wild horse and the new adoptive owner during the summer of 2009 and beyond.
