Prison trained wild horse auction a success in Carson City

More than $43,000 was paid for trained wild horses during an auction held Saturday at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center.The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Nevada Department of Corrections–Silver State Industries hosted the first of this year’s three saddle-trained horse adoption events.Seventeen wild horses from ranges on BLM-administered public lands in Nevada and Utah were saddle-trained for approximately four months by inmate trainers in the NNCC program, and offer