{"id":65623,"date":"2023-04-12T13:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.saltriverwildhorsemanagementgroup.org\/?p=65623"},"modified":"2023-04-14T14:15:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T18:15:29","slug":"horse-bloodline-spotlight-retired-lead-stallion-sarge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.saltriverwildhorsemanagementgroup.org\/?p=65623","title":{"rendered":"Horse bloodline spotlight: Retired lead stallion Sarge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We love keeping track of the bloodlines of the Salt River wild horses. Today’s spotlight is on patriarch and retired lead stallion Sarge. (When we release interesting information about our many years of research and data collection, please feel free to share it, as long as you credit who you learned it from, SRWHMG.)<\/p>\n

We call a lead stallion “retired” once he has been kicked out of his own band, because of old age. In other wild horse hma’s there is not a lot of research on retired lead stallions, because they are often assumed to be just another bachelor stallion. Their lifestyle is similar to bachelors, but upon closer look, very different in that they no longer do any effort to gain a mare for themselves and they try to avoid battling at all cost.
\nOnce a stallion is retired, we know that he will not produce anymore offspring, but he can still live for many more years and quite happily. We have many retired stallions roaming around, and you can usually find them on their own, staying out of trouble.<\/p>\n

From pictures from 2006 we can see that Sarge was an adult at that time. This means that he was born at the very latest in 2002, but probably even earlier. So that means he is 21 years at minimum and likely older. He was last seen last year around this time, but he was in good shape then, so we hope he is still out there.<\/p>\n

In our database app we have 21 offspring for Sarge. These are all babies from his beloved lead mares that he doted over for more than a decade. Sarge had beautiful Andalusian looking conformation with a heavy curved neck, and he definitely gave that to all of his male offspring. He was not a dominant grey, but still gave his grey genes to half of his offspring, even while none of his band mares were greys.<\/p>\n