
Clare Staples
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Sep 12, 2026
CORRECTED: Mustang Documentaries with Jamie Baldanza & ReALLi bAd aDz for September 11th, 2026 by Kentucky Performance Products
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19:35Jamie BaldanzaGUEST
to get this out there, especially with that New York Times article, but Blue Zeus is a wild horse from Wyoming who was rounded up and separated from his family.
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19:47Jamie BaldanzaGUEST
And then Claire Staples of Sky Dog made it her mission to save Blue Zeus or adopt him and then go and actually find his family, which is no easy feat.
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19:59Jamie BaldanzaGUEST
She got lucky because it was during the pandemic, so they didn't really have a lot of time to move horses around so they were all in one spot which was incredible but what's great about this film it weaves in a bigger story of what's going on today with america's wild horses and the issues they are facing so you get a little bit of everything you get the love the surprise the heartbreak the issues all in one little movie
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20:29Ashley WinchHOST
And all about the most darling blue roan you've ever seen.
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52:26Suzanne RoyGUEST
It's increased 200%.
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52:29Suzanne RoyGUEST
The way that we found, the way I got involved is that I saw Claire Staples, who's the founder of Sky Dog Sanctuary.
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52:36Suzanne RoyGUEST
which has rescued hundreds of horses from BLM horses from the slaughter pipeline.
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52:42Suzanne RoyGUEST
I saw her posting on social media about this dramatic increase in the numbers of horses, BLM horses and burros she was seeing in the kill pens.
Mustang Documentaries with Jamie Baldanza & ReALLi bAd aDz for September 11th, 2026 by Kentucky Performance Products
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19:52Jamie BaldanzaGUEST
To get this out there, especially with that New York Times article, but Blue Zeus is a wild horse from Wyoming who was rounded up and separated from his family.
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20:04Jamie BaldanzaGUEST
And then Claire Staples of Sky Dog made it her mission to... to, you know, save Blue Zeus or adopt him and then go and actually find his family, which is no easy feat.
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20:17Jamie BaldanzaGUEST
She got lucky because it was during the pandemic.
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20:20Jamie BaldanzaGUEST
So they didn't really have a lot of time to move horses around.
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35:18Brandi CyrusHOST
And if you're interested at all to s- hear more about that, and the roundups, and just all of the issues with it, and what needs to happen to protect the horses, I would highly suggest watching this documentary.
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35:29Brandi CyrusHOST
Claire does an amazing job of, um, explaining it and also, uh, you know, h- having you get to know these wild horses.
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35:37Brandi CyrusHOST
Like, she, she and her group have studied every single herd.
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35:42Brandi CyrusHOST
They know every single thing about every horse and every family group.
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35:44Brandi CyrusHOST
It's very cool, um, and very beautiful.
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35:47Brandi CyrusHOST
So, uh, if you are interested at all in that, I would say go watch that on Amazon Prime.
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35:52Wells AdamsHOST
When a wild stallion and his family are captured from Wyoming's Red Desert by the US government, Claire Staples must fight a broken bureaucratic system in attempt to rescue them from a shockingly inhumane and inherently corrupt system.
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36:09Wells AdamsHOST
Blue Zeus.
REBROADCAST: America's Wild Horses with Clare Staples of Skydog Sanctuary
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0:56Caroline CulbertsonHOST
These horses are federally protected from slaughter, but the Times traced government-branded mustangs through a system in which some horses are sold by the government for as little as $25, lose those federal protections, and ultimately end up in the slaughter pipeline.
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1:13Caroline CulbertsonHOST
And one of the people featured in that reporting is the woman you're about to hear from, Clare Staples.
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1:19Caroline CulbertsonHOST
Clare is the founder and president of Skydog Sanctuary, a sprawling multi-site haven for America's wild horses and burros, and Clare's work has been featured by The New York Times, the BBC, Washington Post, and many others.
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1:32Caroline CulbertsonHOST
And she's become one of the most recognizable advocates for wild horses caught in this incredibly complicated system of roundups, government holding facilities, adoption, and sale.
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4:28Caroline CulbertsonHOST
I also trimmed off a little bit of our conversation at the beginning so that we could just dive right into Clare's experience.
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4:34Caroline CulbertsonHOST
So I just wanted to make note of that in case it sounds a little different than your usual Horse Person content.
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4:38Caroline CulbertsonHOST
So here is our conversation with Clare Staples of Skydog Sanctuary.
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4:44Clare StaplesGUEST
[dramatic music] The whole thing of Skydog came about because I had one horse, Elvis, at a barn in, it's called Sunset Ranch, and it's up Beachwood Canyon-