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Feature Story: Adopting Mustangs

October 16, 2024 by Karen Batt

Know What’s Necessary to Bring a Wild Horse Home Horses go by horse rules, and respect for human beings is not one of them. Wild mustangs speak the same language as other horses, but up until capture they have a clean slate as far as people are concerned. Personally, I …

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Elisa Wallace Claims Victory and $50,000 Prize in Inaugural Mustang Classic event presented by Practical Horseman and The Bureau of Land Management Wild Horse and Burro Program

October 12, 2024 by Press

Elisa Wallace & Zephyr win first-ever Mustang Classic. Images Courtesy Matt Manroe.

Rolex Stadium, Kentucky Horse Park, Lexington, KY. – September 13-15, 2024 Austin, TX – September 15, 2024 – Elisa Wallace of Reddick, FL, emerged victorious in the first-ever Mustang Classic Championship held in Rolex Stadium at the Kentucky Horse Park, Lexington, KY. Riding Zephyr, her 5-year-old gelding gathered from the Twin Peaks, CA Herd Management Area, Wallace clinched …

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HSUS Cashes In On PZP Sales While Wild Horses, Native Wildlife and Range Health Continue To Suffer

April 19, 2024 by Press

Image Courtesy Western Justice Legislative Fund

Funding in the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) budget for wild horse roundups has been cut by $5.9 million, as part of the federal spending bill signed into law in early March 2024. Ironically, this move came directly on the heels of a Nevada Wildlife Commission meeting and endorsement of …

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Feature Story: Savannah’s Mustangs

March 12, 2024 by Corinne Joy Brown

Photos Courtesy of the Aschenbrenner Family

Saving Our Mustang Heritage, One Horse at a Time In a large horse paddock behind a family home on two and-a-half acres in rural Colorado, two formerly wild mustangs can often be found gazing off into the distance. No one can guess exactly what’s going on in their minds, but …

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Cover Story: The 38th Annual Idaho Horse Expo

February 5, 2024 by Northwest Horse Source

Photo by Carrie Sigglin

State’s Largest Horse Expo Returns April 5-7, 2024 by Idaho Expo Staff The 38th annual Idaho Horse Expo will be held April 5–7, 2024 at the Ford Idaho Horse Park in Nampa, Idaho. This event is perfect for anyone who is interested in horses, training, and riding—from dressage to colt …

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Trainer’s Corner: My Journey with “Journey” the Mustang – Part 4

November 10, 2023September 13, 2023 by Matt Livengood

Matt and Journey the Mustang. Photo Courtesy Alayne Blickle.

Competition Day and Beyond At the end of our last article, I’d been out of town judging shows and wishing I had more time to prepare my mustang, Journey, for the upcoming Mustang Mania Trainers Challenge (see the July/August issue). These mustang competitions demand a solid, trusting relationship between horse …

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Trainer’s Corner: My journey with “Journey” the Mustang – Part 3

November 10, 2023August 15, 2023 by Matt Livengood

Matt and Journey the Mustang. Photo Courtesy Alayne Blickle

Competitions and Opportunities Highlight Mustangs’ Qualities At the end of the last article, I’d finally saddled Journey, my formerly wild mustang who I was preparing for a 90-day competition, with a full-sized saddle after starting him with a kid’s saddle. Then life happened, and I had to be gone for …

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Trainer’s Corner: My Journey with “Journey” the Mustang – Part 2

September 12, 2023June 26, 2023 by Matt Livengood

Journey on Arrival. Photo Courtesy Matt Livengood

From BLM Holding to Accepting a Saddle In my first article in this series, I introduced you to Journey, my 4-year-old (formerly) wild mustang. I chose him by looking through photos of available mustangs for a 90-day mustang competition where competitors gentle and then ride wild horses. I brought Journey …

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New & Noteworthy: Mustang Heritage Foundation Partners with Extreme Cowboy Association

June 13, 2023 by Northwest Horse Source

The Mustang Heritage Foundation will partner with the Extreme Cowboy Association (EXCA) again for their 2023 World Championships. The EXCA World Championships will be held November 1-5, 2023, in Glen Rose, TX. As part of the World Championship, Mustang Heritage Foundation and EXCA will produce the New Partner Race, a …

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Trainer’s Corner: My Journey with “Journey” the Mustang – Part 1

September 12, 2023April 15, 2023 by Matt Livengood

Matt and Journey. Photo courtesy Matt Livengood.

What is a Mustang? Mustangs are the wild horses of the American West. When most people think of wild horses, they think of stallions rearing and fighting with a band of mares and foals watching intently. Or maybe they think mustangs are a thing of the past—those great herds of …

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