The Mustang I (Sierra) received for the 2021 Mustang Competition was a tiny little all black filly I named Paisley Moonlight. Paisley was one of the easiest Mustangs we had trained this far. She wasn't reactive or spooky and I was able to get my hands on her pretty quick that first day but she …
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Can an 8yr old safely handle a yearling Mustang? This was the question of the year for my family. Eliza, the youngest of us sisters at the age of 8yrs old, decided she wanted to train a wild Mustang. At first, we all were pretty against the idea as she was still just so young …
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On March 26th, we made the 10hr trek down to Burns, OR and picked up three adorable yearling Mustangs for the 2021 Washington Mustang Madness 100 Day Training Challenge. The competition gives participants 130 days to train a completely wild and unhandled mustang before returning for a final competition to showcase the trainability of wild …
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We are once again competing in the Washington Mustang Madness Training Challenge. The challenge gives competitors 120 days to train a wild Mustang before returning for a final competition on August 5th-7th. All three of us sisters will be competing this year and we couldn't be more excited! All of this years picks are yearling …
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Week Three And Four With Crumpet May 3rd-16th What a couple of weeks! Crumpet has learned many new things including the beginnings of Side-passing, haunch turns and forehand turns. Now we just have to focus on trying to stick her turns and not move around so much. I also introduced her to standing tied and …
Week Two With Crumpet April 26th-May 2end The beginning of my second week with Crumpet brought a surprise. My family was all in the house when we heard this really weird sound coming from outside that kinda resembled a fog horn on the ocean. We have never had a donkey before, so it took us …
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With all the craziness happening in the world right now we had to make a couple very hard decisions. With the online auction Mustangs plus Marissa and I’s competition animals we would be up to 5 wild equines.  So we asked ourselves, "Do we really need four more wild mustangs plus a burro if the …
Marissa had so much fun competing in the competition with Stardust last year that she decided to do it again! She received an email saying she will get Mustang tag #5574, an adorable filly from the Warm Springs HMA in Oregon!! It is going to be so much fun training Mustangs together! What a great …
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March 18th, 2020 I am super excited to announce that I have been accepted to participate in the Mustang Yearling Washington Youth 100 day Challenge! The competition gives trainers 100 days to train a wild horse or burro from the BLM and then compete in the final competition which will take place on August 6th …
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Summer 2019 Imagine a horse that had spent it's whole life running wild with no human contact. Then imagine taking that horse and having only 100 days to train it to, not only load into a trailer and lead, but to be able to complete trail courses, showmanship patterns and Freestyles. Now, I am going …
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Steffen Stampede 