Mustang Mania 2023 - Part 05

This is a very bittersweet update.  After deciding that we would dig in and see what we could do with Harley, I had the owner of the ranch spend a couple days with him.  She has trained tons of mustangs over her lifetime and has a lot of experience and wisdom.  In the end, she advised me that Harley was not safe.  Rather than learning and giving, he had become more agitated and had taken to charging.  She did not think it would be good to have Sidney work with him.  She recommended that we take him back to the BLM.  

We arranged with the BLM to return him.  We had a number of people chipping in to help load him up, after that she and I made the short trip to the corrals.  At the corrals, he seemed to calm and be in his happy place.  That gave me a sense of peace about it.   

As for Levi, I am planning to have our vet take a look at him and assess whether he will have the ability to be rideable.  I have been told that some horses will grow out of their conformity troubles with age.  In the meantime, Sidney will continue to work with him and show him in the mania challenge.  He is truly a sweet guy.  She has been doing some trailering work with him, and he has been a rockstar.  More to come later.