Once again, think horses

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/27/2010 10:52 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>Horses gallops??
>DanG

Indeed.  I hadn't noticed through all the dust
raised by flying hooves.  But it's still on the web page.
Joel


>On 3/25/2010 7:17 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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>>If you heard hoofbeats on the streets of Chula
>>Vista, California, yesterday, you should not have thought zebras.
>>
>>   From the Seattle Times, at
>>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2011439678_apuswildhorses.html
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>>Horses gallops through San Diego County suburb
>>
>>The Associated Press
>>CHULA VISTA, Calif. ­
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>>Manes and tails flying, a herd of horses galloped
>>along paved streets of this San Diego suburb,
>>through a parking lot, fields and an Olympic
>>training center for up to two hours before a
>>mustachioed cowboy herded them back to the ranch.
>>
>>Wild horses apparently led other horses to escape
>>from a ranch east of town in Otay Mesa on
>>Wednesday afternoon, Chula Vista police spokesman
>>Bernard Gonzales said Thursday.
>>
>>"They had come down from the hills just above
>>Chula Vista and they had intermingled with some
>>other horses," Gonzales said. "I guess that the
>>leader of that pack of wild horses induced the other horses to run free.
>>
>>"In their natural state, a horse will follow the
>>dominant horse. They were all following the lead horse."
>>
>>Abel Canales, a ranch hand at the OK Corral, told
>>The San Diego Union-Tribune that the wild horses
>>may have come from Mexico, which is just a few miles away.
>>
>>U.S. Border Patrol trucks tried to herd them and
>>television helicopters followed as the horses and
>>a few colts galloped through the wide streets of
>>the Eastlake area, which is the urbanized portion of the town.
>>
>>The horses ran into the U.S. Olympic Training
>>Center near Otay Lake, where they cantered around
>>the flag court and fields before heading through
>>a parking lot and back onto the road. The Olympic
>>facility includes training venues for track and
>>field, canoe/kayak, cycling, field hockey,
>>soccer, archery and rowing.  [But apparently they
>>did not find the location for equestrian events.]
>>
>>Two of the horses, including a colt, stopped
>>about a mile away. Volunteers from the San Diego
>>Humane Society roped and calmed them. Televised
>>reports showed one roped horse neighing and
>>kicking its front legs as a volunteer struggled to hold it.
>>
>>"It was pretty stressful, they were both injured,
>>minor injuries on their legs, and they're both
>>very fatigued from galloping around," Human Society Capt. D.J. Grove said.
>>
>>Pursuers on horseback managed to push the rest
>>southward onto a road and then a trail through
>>open country and finally got the horses, winded
>>but not seriously hurt, back to the ranch, Gonzales said.
>>
>>Canales said he followed the herd on horseback
>>and was finally able to rope the lead horse and
>>guide the herd back to the ranch. With his white
>>cowboy hat, bushy mustache and lasso, he cut a dashing figure on the TV news.
>>
>>"I felt like a cowboy out in the Old West," he said.
>>
>>Police said it was unclear how the horses got out of their stalls.
>>
>>"Did they jump? Was there an open gate? Were the
>>horses so domesticated that the owner thought
>>they would never leave? I don't know," Gonzales said.
>>
>>No citations were issued because there was no
>>real threat to motorists or other residents, Gonzales said.
>>
>>Gonzales said it was the first time he could
>>recall horses cantering through the town, a
>>suburb about a dozen miles from downtown San
>>Diego where lemon groves dominated in the last
>>century until World War II brought in factory
>>workers and servicemen. Thousands of new homes
>>have been built in recent decades although there
>>still are ranches scattered among its scenic hills and canyons.
>>
>>"It's interesting to think that wild horses still
>>roam free out in those hills," Gonzales said. "It
>>was kind of like nature springs forth to remind
>>us all that there are greater things out there."
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>>Joel
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