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[RC] Starting mustangs under saddle - Liz Masters

In regards to starting my young mustang The Foxx. I sent him to Char Antuzzi for training when he was 3 1/2. The Foxx is a solid 15 hand well built horse. After I adopted him and tamed him he went out to pasture with two other colts for a year and half. He didn't take to being ponied so I mostly just used to take him for hand walks. Mentally he was ready to go under saddle. I had worked him on the ground, saddled him, we had sat on him and I wanted someone to get his first few rides on him for me.
The Foxx needed a job. He was ready to carry the weight of a saddle and a rider but neither I nor Char has asked for any speed from him. I have ridden him 6-8 times since he's been home and have only let him trot some but he has climbed some moutains. He filled out, lost his "baby" weight and looks great - he'll go to his first LD latter this year.


*Thank You Cowboy Ed* I plan on picking the buckskin boy up at the Norco, CA adoption April 8th. Can't wait to get him home. I love the Devil's Garden colt I have now and he was SO easy to tame.

**Also congradulations to Melanie Wong in Southern CA and her recent adoption of a mustang colt who is also from Devil's Garden.

Liz Masters, home to 1 Pet Cow, 12 Mustangs, 5 Belesemo Arabians, 7 Shalimar Arabians, 1 Payback Arabian, 3 Akhal-Teke's, a few other Arabians, 1 Haflinger, 1 Morgan, 2 Thoroughbreds and whew I don't remember what else.......



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