by Jeff Hampton, Virginian-Pilot, March 8, 2020, 4:40 pm The blind Corolla wild horse that was once a king of the underdeveloped beaches died Friday. He is possibly the only wild horse saved by an ocean rescue team. Several weeks ago, Amadeo became increasingly stiff in his legs and hips and unable to move freely. […]
Horse trainer Nora Tarpley helps Amadeo, a 35-year-old blind Corolla wild mustang, paint on Monday, Nov. 25, 2019, at a farm in Grandy, NC. (Kaitlin McKeown / The Virginian-Pilot) By JEFF HAMPTON, The Virginian-Pilot Posted Dec 6, 2019 Horse trainer Nora Tarpley fastened a small paintbrush to the halter on Amadeo, the blind stallion from the Corolla […]
OBX Today October 10, 2019 by Kari Pugh The Corolla Wild Horse Fund this week hired a contractor to temporarily fix a fence meant to keep the Outer Banks’ wild mustangs from wandering the paved roads and neighborhoods of Corolla. Following Hurricane Dorian flooding, a group of wild horses have been passing through the dilapidated […]
October 1, 2019 by Kari Pugh Raymond the mule and a group of wild mustangs displaced by hurricane flooding have been crossing dilapidated fencing and entering the paved road and neighborhoods of Corolla, leading to a “heartbreaking” decision for those tasked with caring for the herd. On Sunday, the Corolla Wild Horse Fund was forced […]
OBX Today September 5th by Kari Pugh There’s one group of Outer Banks residents who won’t be evacuating for Hurricane Dorian — the wild horses. Instead, the colonial Spanish mustang herd will likely ride out the the winds and rain as their ancestors did before them — in huddles, “butts to the wind.” “They have […]
Kari Pugh OBX Today August 30, 2019 The Corolla Wild Horse fund on Thursday rescued an elderly wild stallion “we’ve been keeping an eye on for the past couple months,” the group said in a Facebook post. Captain, believed to be well into his 20s, had come out of winter thin. The fund, tasked with caring […]
By JEFF HAMPTON AUG 17, 2019 COROLLA, N.C. A wild horse was put down after getting caught in barbed wire stretched across parts of a wildlife refuge. Joaquin, a well-known member of the Corolla wild horse herd, was found Thursday entangled in the barbed wire, according to a post on the Corolla Wild Horse Fund Facebook page. […]
CBS NEWS May 17, 2019, 4:04 PM By “Sunday Morning” contributing videographer Carl Mrozek We’ve all seen plenty of images in movies and on TV of mustangs on the prairies, high plains and deserts of the American West. But wild horses on an East Coast beach? Not so much, except possibly recent escapees from a ranch […]
Coastal Review Online 4.4.19 by Staff Reporter COROLLA – The Corolla Wild Horse Fund announced Thursday that the first foal of 2019 was born March 31. CWHF officials hadn’t determined the foal’s gender, but they said that both mom and baby were in good condition. The foal was named Renzi in honor of Melissa Renzi, […]
Where do Outer Banks wild horses vanish to in winter? An aerial survey found out. By Mark Price North Carolina’s wild horses have been known for decades to vanish from the Outer Banks in the winter, leaving visitors to the barrier islands mystified. On Friday, a survey located much of the elusive herd in the […]
