Kylie ended up buying a mature bay stud that caught her eye for $500. “It was weird,” she admitted, “but I was just thinking about bidding and bringing a horse home.” Kylie agreed to participate in their story, but, focused on the task at hand, the 18-year-old was indifferent to the cameras pointed at her. On auction day, the news program W5 was there hoping to follow the stories of people who adopted the wild horses. The horses going through the auction were the ones in danger of falling between the cracks and ending up in a bad place.” She launched a GoFundMe page to raise the money, and, thanks to the generosity of wild horse advocates, the campaign was a huge success. Kylie decided she would purchase a horse at auction as opposed to adopting through WHOAS because she said she “knew whatever horses WHOAS took in were going to be safe and well taken care of. Any horses that WHOAS could not take into their facility for gentling and adoption, due to space constraints, were offered at public auction. Wild Horses of Alberta Society (WHOAS), with whom the ESRD has a five-year Moratorium of Understanding for a pilot project and study that combines adoption and PZP (a form of contraception via vaccine) in the Sundre Equine Zone, had first dibs on the horses that were captured. This seasonal horse capture was nothing new, but, for the first time, horses were being offered to the public.
Kylie’s next opportunity presented itself in February 2015, with the news of a wild horse capture set to take place in the Ghost River Equine Zone in Alberta, by the Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development (ESRD). “If you take the time to gain their trust and let them understand what you’re asking of them, the sky is the limit.”
“These horses are so much more willing than any domestic horse I’ve ever worked with,” she said. After falling in love with him during the competition, Kylie adopted Oden, but was unable to bring him home until April 2015, due to paperwork delays.Įnthused by her experience, Kylie was eager to continue training wild horses. Kylie placed 10th overall in the Youth Division with her assigned horse, a two-year old-gelding named Oden. She sent her application to compete in the 2014 BLM 100 Day Challenge, held last July in Nampa, Idaho, and was thrilled to be accepted. Unable to make her dream a reality close to home, the teen from Stony Plain, Alberta sought an opportunity across the border. Her ambition to tame and train wild horses was born after being given a link to the film Wild Horse, Wild Ride by her instructor, Tony McKee, at the Remuda Horseman Program, an equine-assisted leadership and social skill development program. Kylie Jensen dreams a little wilder than most.
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