{"id":409,"date":"2014-02-18T06:41:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T06:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ANIMALPAGES.COM\/animals\/?p=409"},"modified":"2025-07-09T00:02:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T07:02:49","slug":"wild-horse-stallion-champ-rescues-a-filly-from-drowning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wild-horse-stallion-champ-rescues-a-filly-from-drowning\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Horse Stallion, Champ, Rescues a Filly from Drowning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We love animal rescue stories, and who doesn\u2019t love it when the hero is also an animal?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Champ is a wild mustang stallion that lives in the Tonto National Forest in Arizona with his herd. He and his family were interacting with another herd in the Salt River when one of Champ\u2019s fillies lost her footing and started to get washed down the river. The proud stallion came to her rescue and Becky Standridge, a Park Service volunteer, was on hand to capture the remarkable moment on film. Watch the drama unfold in this lovely photo montage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Salt River Wild Horses - Champ, Wild Stallion Rescues Filly From Drowning\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-SXbVw4qojg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Learn more about the Salt River wild horses:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230320084750\/http:\/\/saltriverwildhorses.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">saltriverwildhorses.com<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230320084750\/https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SaltRiverWildHorses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">facebook.com\/SaltRiverWildHorses<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-2571651847880215\"\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n<!-- banner ad -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2571651847880215\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"7178535257\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We love animal rescue stories, and who doesn\u2019t love it when the hero is also an animal? Champ is a wild mustang stallion that lives in the Tonto National Forest&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,33,34,32],"tags":[54,38,18,31],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animal-heroes","category-animal-news","category-animal-tales","category-animal-videos","tag-animal-rescues","tag-horses","tag-videos","tag-wild-animals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/video-mustang-stallon-Screenshot.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}