The day of this pic of Cassidy Rain was warm(ish) and windy (can we skip the wind until actual spring?). I caught sight of a couple of band members on an isolated little ridge-mound between some open ground and a rising, tree-covered hillside behind. The rest of the band was in a semi-protected little cove between the ridge-mound and the main hillside. I found a rocky little drainage and perched on a series of rocks until I found a comfortable one. The horses watched me watching the horses, and we enjoyed the warmth. Based on the number of closed eyes in that series of photos, they were fighting the sleepies as much as I was in that comfortable little area!
Cassidy Rain was named by me. She shared her birthday with the then-2-year-old daughter of our then-herd manager, and I liked the name. And the day I found her, I was poking along the road back in the northeastern part of Spring Creek Basin, in the drizzle, wondering whether I was an idiot for continuing to drive … or whether I’d find horses just around any/every bend that kept appearing along the way.
Thus did Cassidy Rain become a two-name/combined-name mustang. 🙂
An additional note related to yesterday’s post of Maiku: She’s the same base color – dark bay – and she may be distantly related to him. Cassidy Rain’s sire was a dark-bay pinto named Cinch, for the white “girth”-like marking on his side. (Very sadly, he was the one on-site casualty of the 2011 roundup.) She got his color, but as you can see, only a couple of little bits of his white markings.
We need some of the second part of her name. Or snow. We’re not fussy, ever. (As of the publication of this post, the temps have dropped again, and ice has appeared on water sources overnight again. We’re hoping for snow this week!)
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 
I love these name origins, TJ, and Cassidy Rain’s is just perfect. A rain foal! And you know, TJ, I always wondered if there was a connection between Maiku and Cassidy Rain because of the similar appearance. Poor Cinch. So many lost to the old ways of doing things. And yes – we need some of Cassidy Rain’s “last name!”
I’d love to know whether there’s an actual connection, but we’ll never know. It’s not direct; Cinch never had any other offspring, and I don’t know *his* parentage. My fingers and toes are crossed for moisture!!!!!!!
Love this story about Cassidy Rains name.
When ever I saw a post showing Maiku or Cassidy Rain I would often ask the question in my head, Are they related? I thought maybe related somehow to Duke, but looking back at older posts of Cinch there’s more resemblance.
Sometimes the relationships are fairly clear! Sometimes … not at all! It’s all fascinating. 🙂
Another perfect name for this gal! Hoping for moisture!
Everything is crossed!!!
They do resemble each other.
Yes. 🙂