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(Warning: Graphic Images) RENO, NEV. (May 20, 2024) – On May 16th, representatives from the leading wild horse protection organization, American Wild Horse Conservation (AWHC), witnessed disturbing conditions for over 3,000 wild horses currently confined at the privately owned Winnemucca Holding Facility. Most alarming was the presence of a severely …
Mustang Challenge / South Point Arena, Las Vegas NV, July 11-13, 2024 – the richest western discipline national mustang competition. Mustang Champions, in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management and Western Horseman, is proud to announce that the inaugural event will be streamed live and on-demand through RideTV. The …
Mustang Challenge, South Point, Las Vegas, July 11-13, 2024 – the richest Western discipline mustang competition. As of March 1, you can go online to buy your tickets to this prestigious event. The Mustang Challenge, produced by Mustang Champions in partnership with the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program, is …
Funding in the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) budget for wild horse roundups has been cut by $5.9 million, as part of the federal spending bill signed into law in early March 2024. Ironically, this move came directly on the heels of a Nevada Wildlife Commission meeting and endorsement of …
What is your name and the name of your sanctuary? Pat Craig – The Wild Horse Refuge How and when did you get started? As the population of free-roaming horses grew in Colorado’s Sand Wash Basin (SWB) to almost 1,000, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) intervened in 2020, rounding …
Mustang Champions is proud to partner with the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo in producing the 2024 Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo $100,000 Mustang Magic weekend. The three-day event includes two showcase performances in the historic Will Rogers Coliseum. The Friday night Mustang Champions Freestyle event features top …
Competition Day and Beyond At the end of our last article, I’d been out of town judging shows and wishing I had more time to prepare my mustang, Journey, for the upcoming Mustang Mania Trainers Challenge (see the July/August issue). These mustang competitions demand a solid, trusting relationship between horse …
Competitions and Opportunities Highlight Mustangs’ Qualities At the end of the last article, I’d finally saddled Journey, my formerly wild mustang who I was preparing for a 90-day competition, with a full-sized saddle after starting him with a kid’s saddle. Then life happened, and I had to be gone for …
Mustang Champions, a new partner with the Bureau of Land Management Wild Horse and Burro Program, officially introduced two new mustang competitions: Mustang Classic and Mustang Challenge. Wanting to give competitors as much training time to compete Mustang Champions changed the starting adoption or purchase date for their competitions to …
From BLM Holding to Accepting a Saddle In my first article in this series, I introduced you to Journey, my 4-year-old (formerly) wild mustang. I chose him by looking through photos of available mustangs for a 90-day mustang competition where competitors gentle and then ride wild horses. I brought Journey …
