Extreme Mustang Makeover

Last night my mom and I went to the Extreme Mustang Makeover. The premise was, they took 200 mustangs fresh off the BLM land in Nevada, and randomly gave them to trainers (I guess they applied to do this) and the trainers had 100 days to get them ready for this event. There were 100 yearlings that did halter events (this was Friday night -- we didn't see this) and last night were the older ones with unbelievable under-saddle events. We saw the top 10 perform. They had been narrowed down through previous events. A lot of it was kind of gimmicky- but they did stuff off the back of a fresh wild mustang that I would never dream of doing off of a horse that had been broke for 20 years. The shot guns off them and popped balloons, they jumped rings of fire (I am not kidding!), they rode bridle-less, they go them to lay down. One guy had a platform being pulled behind a pickup, and he got the horse's front legs to go up on it, so he was walking along with his back legs. Then he just urged him up onto the moving platform, and then onto the bed of the pickup! I guess that shows the horse will load into any trailer! It was really amazing. The horses were all being sold at auction this morning. The yearlings were going for a starting bid of $125. I'm sure the older ones will bring in thousands. A lot of the trainers were going to buy their own horses back. It would be so hard to spend that much time and effort on them and then just let them go.

It was absolutely amazing!

www.extrememustangmakeover.com