I’m liking this change:
Briosa
Eliana
What do they have in common?
! 🙂
What else might they have in common?
Mahogany might be Piedra’s mother, which might make Eliana Piedra’s sister … Briosa’s aunt.
Mahogany and Eliana
Piedra and Briosa. The funniest thing about this photo is the backstory. Briosa had been nursing and must have slurped a bit too hard because mama delivered a swift reprimand in the form of a snap to her little heiney – which provoked a little kicking fit from both of them! “Don’t bite the udder that feeds you”?! Learned early! 🙂
Hollywood was working to keep his girls close … because Aspen showed up on a hill a short distance away.
To recap, Sundance had Mahogany for a bit more than a year, then two weeks ago, he finally lost Mahogany and Eliana to Aspen the day after I first met Eli. Sometime in the last two weeks, Hollywood managed to steal them from Aspen. To go a little farther back, the winter before this last, Hook briefly stole Piedra and Sage from Hollywood. He had them a shorter than the winter before, when Aspen stole them!
Shall we go even further back in time?
Mahogany and Piedra were originally part of Steeldust’s band. When I first started documenting the horses, Hollywood had Jif … and then they started hanging out with Steeldust’s … that was in the days when the Bachelor 7 were running around with them, too. Then Grey/Traveler stole Jif to add to Houdini and Two Boots and Twister, and Holls turned his attention to lovely Piedra. Bri is their third baby!
Bri is a month old, and Eli is about 2 weeks old – enough age difference that Bri is more independent than her aunt Eli (!), who still sticks pretty close to mama.
So here’s a question: Who is alpha? Piedra, who has been with Hollywood for a few years now, or Mahogany, who is older – and possibly Piedra’s dam – but newly come to the family?
Oh, the wild ways of the wild ones!
Can you stand the cuteness?
How amazing it will be to watch these red babies grow together!
Little beauties. How amazing they are! And together!? Look out! 🙂
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 
TJ, who is likely Bri’s and Eli’s fathers? These two look lovely together, and I hope they get to stay together because that would be nice for them each to have a ‘sister’ to grow up with.
Bri’s daddy is Hollywood, and Eli’s daddy is Sundance. I hope they can stay together, too. 🙂 So far, this is the only band that has more than one foal, and only one other band is likely to have two – by the end of June or early July. That’s the pintos, with mama Kiowa and her daughter Reya both pregnant. (Daughter Spook also is pregnant … but she’s now with Butch!)
TJ – Spook with Butch?! I thought sure we’d seen her with Bruiser in the “gap” and then on the top of the East-West ridge last Friday, May 28th! Could be wrong about one or the other, but both were pintos – Butch was with Luna’s group. Are we nuts?! 😉
OOPS! Freudian slip?! I meant Bruiser! (Hopefully I was right in my email to you later that day??) Ha. Yes, Spook is with BRUISER. You didn’t see her with a foal, either? I’d love to see the other pintos … from two weeks ago, sounds like Reya is pretty close.
Even though they were a bit far away, we didn’t see any little one. On the way out, we looked for the pinto group, David’s and Ty’s, but saw nary a one, darn!!