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Post by mustangdara on Mar 24, 2009 22:27:22 GMT -5
Hey, so i am woundering who was there as saw the action!!! I was late getting there but cryed most of the time watching the last 4 or 5 of the top 10 compete...then i stayed and watched the auction. I cried AGAIN. I think the reserve champion went for 3,800.00 and the winning horse went for 1,800 or somthing close to that...some only went for 125.00 I belive kevin Sink's horse went for 1,650.00.. .lisa if you read this I am glad you landed on your feet!!! So many trainers wanted to take their horses home and were crying as people were bidding on thier horses...lots of girl did get to take the horses home...family were bidding on their horses for them. I had fun even though i was all by myself....maybe thats good, no one to see me cry   I finaly bought a blocker tie ring for my filly and some new flashy rope halters for all my girls. |
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Post by desperatehorsewife on Mar 25, 2009 9:00:52 GMT -5
Sorry I didn't get to meet you there, Dara!
We brought not only Steve Holt! home, but Flicka as well. No one bid on her and both my daughter and Whitney, the trainer, were crying about her going back to the corrals so up went City Boy's number...sigh... DD came running out to let me know she was bringing home a horse.
Mustang Sally, the winner, only brought $2,000. She's going to a 4-H girl, it seems. DD put up some video on you tube and someone who knows Laird saw it and they've been talking. Laird did a terrific job and put a nice handle on that mare.
Rudy went to mustang and kiger owner Stacey (who's last name is banging about inside my brain but not coming out on the keyboard) from the Portland area. She's the gal who adopted the high selling Kiger in Burns recently. They actually came home with two mustangs; both Rudy and Chino!
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Post by lilnagy on Mar 25, 2009 11:17:23 GMT -5
I was there! My sister from Denver, who has also adopted a mustang, came and went with me. We had so much fun watching the EMM and the Exreme Cowboy Race! On the adoption of the EMM horses, it was funny how some horses went for alot, and others not much, and it didn't necessarily have anything to do with how they did in the contest. I guess people like horses for different reasons. 15 horses went for $1000 or less, and 7 of those were $500 or less. Some of the horses were not ready to be shown, and the handlers were honest about where they were in their training. There was a wide spread of conformation; some pretty homely horses, and some extremely well put together ones. In the Extreme Cowboy Race, I did not have nearly a wild enough picture in my head of what it was going to be! It was really fun. In the top 5 there was a QH, an Arab, a pony, a mule and a mustang :-) the mustang came in third, even though he bucked his cowboy off in the preliminary round, going over a string of jumps, and in the finals that cowboy came off again, though I think the horse shied at a pile of sand bags on the ground, left from one of the obstacles. The Kigers in the breed demo did great, and the crowd seemed to enjoy them. The KMA raffle filly got lots of attention; she is a cutie! Another favorite for my sister and I was the Border Patrol gentlemen, riding a matched pair of buckskin mustangs, trained through the Colorado prison training program. Border Patrol is increasingly turning to mustangs for their work along the northern border. None of my indoor arena pics of the EMM or the cowboy race turned out well, but here is one of the Border patrol mustangs.  |
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Post by kigerfan on Mar 25, 2009 11:26:18 GMT -5
Nice picture, does that say Spokane on his breastcollar? Pretty boys and they look very relaxed. I notice they're both shod, I imagine that is a requirement being they are probably on hard surfaces a lot. I wonder if those are special non slip shoes for work on blacktop and concrete. Ive ridden my off the track thoroughbred and my quarterhorse I used to have in a few parades, They were not long parades so I didn't worry really about their shoes, also it was level blacktop and not wet, so I didn't worry about slipping. We did quite well. I wish I'd had pictures of it  |
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Post by desperatehorsewife on Mar 25, 2009 14:15:20 GMT -5
Yes, it's Spokane. All they ride anymore are mustangs. We've had them come to several adoption events in the northwest to show them off. Big stout horses and they're very pleased with how well they're working out up in the high country.
Lil, it was nice to meet you, even if it was briefly! Glad you got to enjoy the cowboy race. I didn't get to see any of it (sniff), but heard my friend Keith Danielson took 6th. He also did the makeover with a scruffy, homely little mare who only brought $175 despite having been a top ten horse. He put a real nice handle on that mare and I'll be you she'll clean up real nice come summer. Someone got a steal of a deal!
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Post by lilnagy on Mar 25, 2009 14:17:10 GMT -5
Yes, these guys are based out of Spokane (where my sister and I grew up :-), and yes, they do have some kind of special shoes, though I don't remember the details. One of the EMM guys, last name of Cox, is a trainer north of Spokane in Colville, who has been training and promoting mustangs for the Border Patrol. Lil
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Post by angelsdream on Mar 25, 2009 17:25:14 GMT -5
Dara and Lil, you guys got to see it all.  WIsh I would have been there. I am going to our extreme mustang makeover here on the east coast in Oct in Tenn. Great looking horses that the patrol has. Thats wonderful they are using mustangs now. |
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Post by mustangdara on Mar 25, 2009 22:40:26 GMT -5
I wish i would have posted here before the expo so i could of found out where to find you guys that were there...but busy busy! I agree there were real homely horses and some really nicely built ones. But the homley little horse seemed to really be collected well and behind the bit. IMO...any how i had fun watching it all happen.....Tracy i think i missed you and Steve Holt! sorry.
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WIsh I would have been there. I am going to our extreme mustang makeover here on the east coast in Oct in Tenn.