"Alan Shepherd" was a Great Britain/British Grand Prix motorcycle racing/Grand Prix motorcycle road racing/road racer. His best seasons were in 1962 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season/1962 and 1963 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season/1963, when he rode a Matchless to finish in second place in the 500cc world championship, both times to Mike Hailwood. Shepherd was a three-time winner of the North West 200 race in Northern Ireland and finished on the podium twice at the Isle of Man TT.

Shepherd was a rider for the East German MZ Motorrad- und Zweiradwerk/MZ factory team. In 1964 when a resident of Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire, England, he was allowed to keep his 125 cc Single-cylinder engine/single cylinder and 250 cc Straight-twin engine/twin cylinder machines as part of his earnings due to currency difficulties, which he then offered for sale through The Motor Cycle/Motor Cycle, a UK weekly magazine.

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We're placing them into good homes where they'll be loved and taken care of and used as a useful animal or just pets. The alternative is we either leave them on the range and they damage the public lands because they're overpopulated, or we put them into large-scale holding operations where they don't get used; they don't get touched; they just sit there.

To do our job, we have to take all the resources into account, not just the horses.

The populations are so large it's taken a couple of gathers to get down to our target numbers. We don't want to do any further damage to the habitat they're in. The area is critical elk, deer and antelope winter range.

The adoption program is critical to us for the management of the wild horses. It's our mechanism to place our excess horses that are removed from the range.

There's nothing that you can't do with a domestic horse that you can't do with these. It's just time and effort and energy.

We are exceeding our management levels for these two wild horse populations.

When we do a gather to control populations, we remove down to the low end and allow it to build up over a period of three to four years, ... We allow them to have an increase over a period of time then take the population down to the low end of the range.