Bidders paid an average of $5,150 for 21 saddle-started horses trained by inmates at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center, according to a June 5 news release by the BLM.
The highest bid was $11,900. The lowest was $1,100.
The outplacement program moves wild horses from areas where they’re not wanted to other areas where they’re not wanted if they don’t bring enough prizes and prestige to their new owners.
In this environment, they can look forward to being locked in stalls, smothered with blankets, bathed with carpet cleaner and coerced with bits, spurs, crops and tiedowns, mostly by women.
Curiously, it’s mostly women who are trying to stomp them out in their lawful homes with ovary-killing pesticides.
Western Horse Watchers Association 
And it’s interesting that it’s mostly men who are ranchers and lawmakers pushing their removal and passing laws to do so.