SEARCHERS NEEDED TO FIND FOR MISSING HORSE IN CUYAMACA

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UPDATE:  SEARCHERS STILL NEEDED!  Need more on horseback, on foot and on bike to search brush areas.  Bring Bluetooth wireless speakers for phones or MP3 players and play horse sounds for Royal to reply to.  Meet Aug. 13 at the Sweetwater Bridge parking lot.  Call Shawna (760) 880-1714

East County News Service

August 10, 2016 (Cuyamaca) – Searchers on foot, on horse, and a drone are requested to help find a horse named Royal that ran off on August 7 in Cuyamaca Rancho State Park at Dyar Springs Trail south of the spring.  “He was fully tacked when he left us. His saddle slipped under him and scared him,” the owner says, according to a post at the Brush Fire Partyline on Facebook.  The horse took off bucking and the owner fears he could be caught up on brush.

Royal is a sorrel-colored 10-year-old quarterhorse gelding with “White Star” markings and two indistinguishable brands on his right shoulder and left hip.  He weighs about 950 pounds. He was heading south toward Harvey Moore Trail when last seen.

If you’ve seen the horse or want to join the search, please call Shawna Kramer at 619-993-3334 or call 760-880-1714.  Organizers of the search hope to form a line of searchers to comb the remote area. The best way to get there is stage at Sweetwater Parking, head up Harvey Moore, left on Dyer Springs.

The horse was lost at latitude 32.9168 longitude 116.54156.

A possible sighting was made at latitude 32.90631 longitude -116.54106

For the latest updates on possible sightings and where to join the search visit the Brush Fire Partyline on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/bfpartyline/posts/1281240255272760:0.


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