YAY! (again)
My guys are doing pretty well. Only one of them is gettting under saddle. He’s been here almost one year. It has taken quite some time to get him to this point. He’s been my ‘teaching’ horse. The rest of them are coming along more easily… Even though the five other geldings were wild and free and intact until age 12 or more. I have high hopes for them. Odds are in my favor that at least one will have all the right stuff
You going to try to do a mustang challenge with them??
no. Just learning how to speak feral-horse. Then maybe one day they’ll join our equine SAR team and those who are able and willing will do dressage. Plus general ranch work on our sheep farm. Or if they are unrideable, they’ll just graze and grace our hills.
I too was stoked by the article. My mustang has some of the nicest gaits; but, dressage really isn’t in the cards for him as far as competition goes. Like a lot of mustangs, he doesn’t see the common sense in expending any more energy than he absolutely has to after conserving what he could just to survive on the range (came off the rez 300 lbs underweight). He has, though, turned into the best darn trail horse I have ever owned. My daughter rode him the last two days on our trail rides while I took turns taking others out on the trail with him. She agreed that for someone who just wants a horse that takes care of them and is all around just relaxing and pleasant to ride, this guy is it. I’ve owned him for 5 years now after taking him on and gelding him. I would like do it again if the opportunity arose and I had the room.
nice!! Good luck!
poor baby. He is SO LUCKY to have you!
One of the ones i pulled was maybe a 2, or two and a half on body condition. And badly lame on both front feet…real thrush-y. One year later, happy, healthy, shiny and the sweetest little pocket-ponymare you’ve ever seen. My farrier is lobbying hard to take her from me for his daughter. She is starting under saddle. She’s four. I have a giant carnival won teddy bear that i bungie on the saddle. I’m too big for her (and i weigh 133). but she’s only 13h…and ‘fine’, not at all stocky.
There are four geldings and two-maybe-three mares that i could see taking into dressage training. I watch them move and drool over them. There are three top-tier that are older, like 13 or 14. All flashy colored and bold movers. (varnish appy, an all0ver black appy who looks more blue roan than appy…so essentially she’s gray and will ALWAYS be gray, not fade to white, and then there is The One…omg. my Pony dressage candidate. 14h, perfect body, and his pelt is blueroan…but the darkest kind of blue roan, almost black except his sides are like a seal. He’s really sumthin. He is getting close to tame too. I’ll get them started and see how far we can go. I have a feeling that it will be me that is the slug in the game, not them. The thing about a mustang is there is no bottom. You reach for more and it’s there.
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