We spent the past week working on the usual daily stuff, she lunges, leads, has a pretty good canter and will stop when you say whoa. Now it is saddle time. I put our traditional heap of junk saddle on Josie as I am sure that because she is a "wild mustang" that she will just tear it to shreds. She will probably try to roll, flip over backwards and/or buck herself right out of our arena! I am fully prepared and have a full staff waiting and watching for all this to happen. Nothing happens, nothing to report. I am in shock-n-awe! Are you sure we got a wild one... she doesn't even kick out! We spend about an hour working on the lunge and also trotting on the lead and going over some obstacles. I am very proud of Josie today.

Special Thanks!

I must give credit where credit is due. Special thanks to my onlooker Lucy Lu and my most professional photographer, Brandon Plendl. Well done!

Well another bath under our belt and she once again just stood there and played with the water. Certainly I will scare the fur right off of her when I come at her with the cooler! She took a hard look at it, tried to take bite out of it....... so that must be her way of saying "it's cool, go a head and flop it on me". Weird?

What the heck? I just clipped a wild mustang without using any sort of device to get her to stand still! She loves the buzzing of the blades running over her muzzle and chin. I pondered the thought..... "I am sure she is going to freak out when I go near those ears". Nope, she just stood still and actually dropped her head so that I could give her a little bridle bath and buzz around the edges of her ears. She was a little hesitant about clipping her feet - so we will tackle that another day. For now I think I will stop on this positive note.

Josie got her first and much needed bath. As you can see from the previous photo, she came all inclusive with a ton of mud. From what I have seen from others trainer's posts.... they are all alike, Muddy. Remarkably, she once again blows my mind! She likes the water and stands in our cross ties like an angel. This is magnificent, what is the catch? Josie behaves better than most domestic horses? Huh? Regardless, she was real trooper for her first bath.

Both Scott and I have spent time with her getting her used to people. We have her leading in the stall, rubbing her face, ears and neck and she appears to really like it. She wants to follow us around. I think we are going to call her Josie. I lead (or somewhat pulled) her down the aisle to the indoor arena. The way she is trotting - I think we got some kind of circus horse? I think the sand footing has her baffled as she is stepping up really high with her back feet. I wonder what breed she really is? She is not the tallest horse, but she appears to be some kind of draft cross. She is easy to catch which can sometimes be a battle, but not with Josie. This is really fun!

We pick up our Mustang. Everyone is really nice and they would love for us to take home another one too! We meet Patti Colbert, the Executive Director. She is very positive and thrilled with all the trainers being able to make it to get their Mustangs.

My first thoughts; Darn it’s a mare, her mane is rubbed out, and she is a sorrel and not a bay. I didn’t get any of the things that I wanted! But she looks like she might have a flaxen mane and tail which is good. I pet her while she was in the chute and she she didn’t freak out.

She loaded fine, we checked her all the way home and although she was scared, she was traveling quietly. Good sign.

Get her home, she hops off the trailer and into her stall.