$500 and a new Mustang!?! Sign me up!
The MYWY Mustang Madness Competition was offering a $500 incentive if competitors wanted to adopt and train a 2nd Mustang. If you haven’t noticed, we will take any opportunity to play with another Mustang and it made it a lot easier to convince our dad of yet another Mustang when we explained we were “literally getting PAID to adopt another Mustang”
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During selection my mom fell in love with an exquisite little bay yearling. She was full of life and trotted all about the pen with her head held high and an intelligent look in her eye. Right then and there it was decided that this was going to be my 2nd competition Mustang.
True to her appearance she was EXTREMELY Smart, bold and outgoing. Due to her fiery personality, I named her after my mom and my favorite country music artist Shania Twain
To this day I haven’t had a Mustang that could learn so much in such a short amount of time. She was AWESOME! I spent the summer doing a deep dive into my advanced ground work and was absolutely amazed at what all this little filly learned!
At the competition, Shania absolutely rocked it putting in one of the best performances of my career. She was on FIRE
We secured our spot in the top 10 and into the freestyle competition. I typically am a big prop person when it comes to freestyles, but with Shania, any prop or obstacle I added seemed to take away from her natural beauty and refinement. So, with the help of my sisters and mom, we crafted a freestyle that focused on advanced ground-work maneuvers strung together in such a way that created a beautiful performance, showing off what Shania did best.
You can see it at: https://youtu.be/AmwDqWPSUf0?si=7oGyqZceJlLQdelh
It was a huge success
and landed Shania a “Grand Champion Finish”
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And the best part of all is that Shania now lives with the same AMAZING family that adopted Elsie and Princess, two of our 2021 Mustang yearlings! It was the absolute perfect home for such a remarkable yearling!
Steffen Stampede 