Extreme Mustang Makeover
Hurtling toward extinction of North America’s wild horses ?
The Mustang Heritage Foundation, in cooperation with the BLM, created in 2007 the Extreme Mustang Makeover event in order to recognize and highlight the value of Mustangs through a national training competition first held in September 2007.
The 2008 competition, to be held September 18-20 in Fort Worth, Texas, will feature 200 of America's Mustangs and their trainers competing for a purse of $50,000, with an additional $20,000 made available for the yearling edition.
A panel of judges will determine winners, among others : an AQHA and National Snaffle Bit Association judge (competition judge for two-year-old horses), a rodeo champion, an Agriculture and Natural Resources agent and last but not least the famous John Lyons, whose dressage techniques are well known in Europe and recognized in France by the FFE as being "ethological equitation".
The casting of this competition from hell has begun, so we must find future candidates for glory and all the American trainers deserving of the name "cowboys" or "whisperers", have reacted with enthusiasm without thinking for a moment of the other side of the coin...
After the disappearance of wild horses from the European continent, the same things now threaten to happen in America in the next couple of decades. Wild Equus of North America will soon be domesticated with a well-regimented stud book for marketing.
