Eliza at the mature age of 9 was already training her second wild Mustang for the 2022 MYWY Mustang Madness competition
She chose a buckskin yearling with the most crazy wild mane I had ever seen!
This little gelding had a big personality, and thought quite highly of himself. On day 1 he was determined he could make it out of our 6ft panels. Although he was unable, I was impressed with his attempts…luckily he was just a tad too short
Once he settled in, he and Eliza quickly hit it off and became fast friends. This Mustang was special and with his wild mane and exuberant personality, we knew he needed a good name. We tried naming him Aslan from Narnia as well as after his rockstar look-alike Rod Stewart (They share the same taste in hair styles
) but ultimately Eliza decided to call him “Big Guy”.
Eliza and Big Guy had a great weekend at the competition and Eliza secured her 2nd “Reserve Champion Finish”.
Unable to part with this pretty gelding we ended up keeping him…now 3yrs later, he is the menace of the farm
Spoiled rotten! At a whopping 15.3 hands he still thinks he is the baby of the farm deserving all the attention…His current personality reminds us of a teenage boy that refuses to get a job and just drives his poor parents crazy!!! He is now going under-saddle, but will try everything possible to get out of work…straight lines and circles are nearly impossible…. Currently, Eliza rides him daily teaching him how to be a solid and respectable riding horse.
But this year he is in for some big life changes! He is going to enter the work force and be my Dad’s full time trail, jumping and all around riding horse. I’ll keep you updated on how that goes
Steffen Stampede 