Maestro, his mare Gracie & son Legacy
our Second Royal Family of Skydog Oregon
Maestro is a 13-year-old band stallion who was much loved and photographed in Salt Wells Wyoming. He shared the range with Goliath and between them, both people traveled from far and wide to see them and marvel at their wild beauty and follow their wonderful herds and families. Maestro is also a curly mustang but with a smooth coat. He lived on the range with his lead mare Gracie, a beautiful black mare, who we believe is quite likely to be Goliath’s daughter.
On the day Goliath and his family were rounded up Maestro and his family were in the same run, chased by the same helicopter into a trap. Suddenly Maestro and Goliath went from being competitors to suddenly being thrown together in a trailer heading for a BLM facility where they were penned up together. When finally they were put on the internet adoption a few months later, each photograph shows them next to each other, giving each other support and comfort in their new life off the range. Suddenly they were all each other had left of their old lives.
We bid on Goliath to reunite him with his lead mare Red Lady and they had a baby together soon after they were reunited. Maestro’s mare, Gracie, had already been adopted by a lady who loved Maestro and she cared for Gracie as she gave birth to their last foal together, Maestro’s Legacy. Her adopter waited a year to get title to her mare and then reached out to us to ask if we would take her and their son and reunite them.
We were thrilled to say yes and the day they saw each other again was one of our happiest here at Skydog. Maestro had always been shy, afraid to be close to people, and would hide in the woods until we left when we brought his hay. When Gracie arrived with their son they ran to meet each other and truly Maestro has been a different horse entirely since his family arrived. We are so thrilled to reunite a second family at Skydog and watch them raise their son and realize the true deep bond they formed in the wild.
family photo album
