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"MUSTANGS"

"Mustangs have taught me more about horses and myself than anything else I have ever done...patience, prayer, body language, understanding, not taking things personal, creative thinking, different perspectives...if more people understood the true reward and could grasp the real meaning, no mustang would ever want for a home..." By Fred Woehl

Fundraiser For Cystic Fibrosis!

T.I.P. horse

We went to Burns yesterday and picked up 2 wild horses for a client. The white mare is a 6 year old form Cold Springs HMA. The black gelding is a 1 1/2 year old gelding from the same place. Sunrise as we waited to load. Kevin worked the mare first today. She is extremely flighty and snorts a lot. She is very afraid of us and is shaking anytime we come near her. Kevin says she is wonderfully spirited. He likes her a lot and has already started a bond within minutes. He calls her little lady.

Ellie's 5th birthday party!

Our granddaughter Ellie received a horse from us for her birthday. This is the yearling filly we adopted at the youth and yearlings competition.
Ellie named her horse Daisy.

up date on Santana!

Santana is doing great. He had an abcess on his lip and it caused him not to eat good which caused him to colic. Just like Secretariat!! It popped and he is doing great but lost a lot of weight!

Santana

Santana is suffering from colic. It has been going on for two days and he has been tube with oil and is on Banamine. It is a weird sort of colic as he's not throwing himself on the ground or kicking at his stomach. But he does lay down for a minute and then gets back up. Please say a prayer for him.

MUSTANG MAKEOVER

Scenes of Oregon

Columbia River

Sept. 27th Back in Oregon

Jackson is hauling good. He seems happy as a clam back there loose in the trailer. He keeps getting into the bales of hay. I think he's on his second one. When we stop at a rest area and take him out he doesn't seem weary at all. I think we already found an adopter for him;:-))))

Wild Horses near Vale, Oregon

Sept. 26th

Well the adoption is over! It was pretty hard to see these well trained horses going for so cheap. They went from $125(injured) to $2400(best horse there!), but most went for around $700 to $900. Noche went for $375 and got a good home. Jackson only went for $175 and Kevin got him back! It was sad to say good-bye to Noche and I cried when I did, but the really hard thing was when we were leaving the parking lot and Jackson was whinnig in the trailer for Noche. I started sobbing because they have been together for 3 years. We are leaving Lincoln, it is 4p.m.

final results

I place 9th in the top 10. It was so much fun, I really enjoyed it. Got $350!! I really need to thank my husband for helping with the finals. If it wasn't for him designing my coarse and giving me pointers we wouldn't have looked as good! Love you honey!

Top Ten Tonight!

Lisa and Noche' made the top ten!!!

Sept 25th.

Well We are done with the riding portion of the contest. Kevin and Jackson did really well, and so did Noche and I. We are waiting for them to post the scores at 3 p.m. to find out who is in the top 10 and they will perform tonight at 7p.m. So we really don't know how we will place. There are a lot of super trainers and awesome horses here. I have videos of our goes, but they take too much time to upload and I don't have a lot of time right now. So you will have to wait awhile.