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The person to whom you refer is Philip Ottinger, DDS of Santa Cruz.

Barbara

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From: <Sheila_Larsen@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 1:12 PM
Subject: [RC] What I know about Mustangs


> is that I don't know much.  Had a friend that finished Tevis on one, and I
> watched the Mustange Challenge at Sacramento Horse Expo.  I was very
> impressed with the progress made with those horses, I don't know if there
> was more or less progress made with those horses as opposed to what would
> have been done with "domestic" horses that hadn't been previously touched.
> I imagine that alot of time and effort was put into the endeavor.
>
> With that said, I hope the BLM raffle will continue at convention and that
> we hear about the success (or not) stories about them, perhaps in 
> Endurance
> News, lessons learned from training a mustang, what went right what went
> wrong, etc.   I would be nice to know where one might go to to get one 
> that
> has been started, perhaps information about the type of horses coming off
> of different management areas and is there a management area that produces
> horses that seem to do well in endurance (or whatever).
>
> I know that someone reputable (dont' remember who)  picked out horses for
> the AERC raffle, is that person available for "hire" to help pick one out.
> I think people don't get mustangs because they are afraid of what they may
> be getting into or don't have the time to devote to a completely
> unsocialized horse (mustang or otherwise).  If people really want to solve
> this problem of finding homes for mustangs these issues need to be
> discussed and solutions, ideas, whatever presented.
>
> Oh hey I have actually ridden one, just remembered, I did a 50 on one, I
> completed but it was not a good ride for me.  The horse was having some
> sort of muscle issue, the owner insisted I go on, and I blew my knee out,
> somehow we finished and somehow the owner got the horse through the ride.
> Don't ask how I could forget all that but it was a mustang.  I am NOT
> implying that the muscle issue was because he was a mustang.
>
> Let's try and provide a positive solutions and reasons why one should own 
> a
> mustang.
>
> Off my soapbox .... (gotta go help a university save their endangered
> species while running a university)
>
> Horses lend us the wings we lack.  Author Unknown
>
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