Update: White sands horses leave for S.D. WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. (AP) - About three dozen wild horses left their drought-prone New Mexico home for greener pastures, beginning a new life Friday on a ranch far away. Clambering aboard aluminum trailers Thursday, the animals, among the last of the White Sands wild horses, began a 21-hour journey to a private ranch in South Dakota - where they will retain their freedom among rolling hills, towering pine trees and an abundance of fresh water. The herd arrived Friday morning and were unloaded into a corral. The trip to the 10,000-acre ranch 85 miles east of Rapid City ends a saga of a herd once numbering 1,800 horses. They had roamed free long before the ranchland became the White Sands Missile Range in the 1940s. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559716694-b83>
