I had two mustangs, a
mother and baby. The mom was very sweet and gentle, as is the
baby......but she was captured and he was born in captivity. I don't
think many people realize the specialness of the mustangs. I would never
have been able to ride her because she was too much "bolt and buck" when she
was afraid. I gave her to friends who have mustangs, understand them,
and most importantly ride better than I do. They are doing really well
with her but it has taken a year to two to get her to this point and she is
still not totally trustworthy. While her son, is 3 1/2 and can be
saddled and ridden on a lead and has no issues at all. He was born in
captivity and never learned that he had to take care of himself or possibly be
eaten.
*Maryben, you are certainly
the type of person who would be a very good bet on gentling one of these
animals, with all your years of riding and horsemanship. A friend of
mine once bought a gorgeous BLM dun gelding that had a lot of time and
training into him. She still found that he was extremely reactive and
pretty spooky as a riding horse. She had talked to many folks with
mustangs,and was told that some of them are always like
that....
A mare I owned was, I feel,
a very successful cross of a Pryor Mtn. dam with a CMK bay stallion.
Born in captivity, great horse. She has many of the spanish colonial
characteristics, and the neatest color, a 50/50 tobiano pinto ranging from
buckskin towards the back shading to grulla in the front. She did some
LD rides with my kids. I sold her a year and half ago to a gal in the
bay area, who got her certified through the POST training in Carson City, and
does a ton of park patrol and search and rescue. IF anyone gets Trail
Blazer, there are photos of her in the article called something like Wuss
Tevis Ride. The horse is Tawny, the pinto. I feel she had the best of
both mustang and Arab characteristics.....
