Shackleford-Ocracoke Cross Filly Born

The following press release was published by the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service on April 12, 2010. It is reproduced in full below.

Harkers Island, NC -- Cape Lookout National Seashore Superintendent Russel J. Wilson announced that an adopted Shackleford stallion, Wenzel, has sired a new addition to the Ocracoke/Cape Hatteras National Seashore herd, a filly named Paloma. Paloma’s dam, Spirit, is a full-blooded Ocracoke mare. The Shackleford-Ocracoke cross provides valuable genetic diversity to the small Ocracoke herd.

Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service