Mustang Talk

 The other day I had a guy call needing his horse shod for a sale. He informed me that he had it done three days before but it didn’t look right. So I went down to the fair ground to take a look and what I saw was the worst job of shoeing I have seen in a long time. None of the feet were the same when I trim them I took off about 2inches off three of the feet and 3 inches off one. Why do people think that there is nothing to shoeing horses when it takes training and education plus a lot of practice. There is a big difference from putting iron on and doing it right. When you hire some one to shoe or trim your horse make sure they know what they are doing for your horse benefit. Don’t just hire the cheapist or the first one you find without asking around to see if they know what they are doing. Your spending your money and the health of your horse is your job. Shoeing does not harm a horse’s feet but bad trimming or shoeing does so hire a good shoer next time and stay with them as he will get to know your horses feet and your horse will learn to trust him.

Last week some trick me into giving them my password to my hotmail acount now they are emailing my friend asking them for money if any of you have recieved an email from me asking for money to get me home from England .Well I’m not in England and I don’t need help getting home so don’t fall for their scam you can reach me by the email on the web page. We will try to up date the web soon with pictures ofmy next mustang challenge horse. Will be writing more soon.

  I was wondering why people who know nothing about horses think they know everything about horses. yesterday I was going to pick up a horse for training and when I got to the place where the horse was it was a junk yard of a place no place to back my trailer up to run this unbroken horse into or any place to catch him of course the people wanted me to rope the horse in a wire pen that was falling down when I refused they were mad and rude to me for refusing to hurt myself and the horse. Some people should not own horses just like these people their horse was underfed, hadn’t had her feet done in 8 yrs. I felt sorry for the horse but I was not going to add more injury to it to get it out of there but I’m the bad guy for refusing to hurt the horse and myself.  Just a little venting on my part, have a nice day to all of the good horse people out there.

      I would like to past on my feeling on leaving your halter on your horse. I think this is a bad practise for the safety of your horse. When you turn your horse loose with his halter on it can and does get caught on things. I saw a young filly turned out in a pasture with her halter on. She was found the next day with it caught on a standpipe she had a dislocated jaw and need 160 stitches in her face. She had a hard time eating and look terrible. She was put down about a year later. I also meet a mare that was crippled because she had her halter left on. The owners had turned her loose with her halter on and went to town when they returned the next day they found her with her hind foot caught on the side of the halter she had fought it for a long and pulled her hip out of place she was no longer a useful horse and had to live a life of pain. These are some of the worst things that can happen but they do happen so next time you want to leave your halters on think of they safety. Try to make your horse as safe as you can it is our responsibility to take care of them. 

This is where we stayed in Kingman AZ. This is the Blake Ranch  RV. park they have corrals for your horses and a full RV park plus they have one cabin you can rent for the night There is a truck stop down the hill from the park with a good place to eat. there are showers for you also but not in the cabin you have to walk over to the park to shower and use the restrooms but it isn’t far.so if you are going through Kingman AZ. and need to stop with your horses check at the Blake Ranch it is a nice place to stay.

I finally got my computer working again and would like to thank some of the people we stay with on our way down to Texas in this picture  I’m ridding Duel at SAM Cruse’s place in Wichita Falls Texas If any of you are traveling through and need a place for your horses  call Sam Cruse it is a great place to stay.  We have stayed there the last two years on our way to the Extreme Mustang Makeover.

well we made it home it was a great show and we had fun Brown Derby place 4th in the yearling group 46 and over we brought him home and adopted him duel went to someone in Texas hope he has a good home The horses in the finals for the legends were super those guys did a great job on their horses as did all of the trainer there from the youth to all of the ridding horse.  I hope they all feel as I do that we are all winner because we made it there and our horses are now useable horses. we took untrained wild mustang and made rideable partener for people to use. Good job everyone. I hope we can do this again next year

It is time for us to head to Texas I don’t know about the rest of you but I can’t believe it is time already. I hope all of you have a safe trip and I hope everyone in Texas are safe from the storms. Lets all have a good time this year and be safe. I sure am looking forward to seeing the young trainers and their yearlings  Thanks to the MHF for putting on this show and letting me compete again See you in Fortworth  

We’ve come a long way from this to where we are today as I’m sure the rest of the trainers have done also. It is getting close to the time we start our trip to Texas I hope to see  and meet a lot of you please look me up and talk about horses or anything you would like to chat about, Like all ways I’m still getting things ready to go had to fixes my trailer axle it was bent hope it is right will find out on the trip, had to get my tractor ready so Bill can use it while we gone, ride horses get all the customer’s horse sent home busy busy get packed If this wasn’t so much fun I would stay home. I have had a lot of fun getting the horses ready I hope all of the trainers the best of luck and a safe trip and all of the people a safe trip too. I hope there are more people at the show than last year let’s keep this going for the mustangs let find more homes for them. See all of you there have a good day.

   I would like to tell all of the trainers that showed their yearling at Reno this weekend what a great job they all did. All of you should be proud of your yearling  I thought all of them were well trained and you did a good job showing them. It was too bad that know one wanted to bib on them for the public lost a great opportunity to get some really nice yearling for a cheap price. The lost to them is priceless for a bid of $125.00 people could have had a well started yearling that had 3 months training that would have cost up into the thousands of dollars if they had to pay someone to put that much time into a yearling that they bought some where else to bad for them. To all of you who took the time to train these yearling my hat is off to you  good job. I will try to find my yearling a good home for he is a nice colt and if anyone wants a nice yearling check with the trainers who took their’s home may-be some of them will sell you their yearling you will get a nice horse from any of them.