March 17th isn’t just St. Patrick’s Day, it’s also Lacy’s birthday. My best girl and Wild Horse Outreach & Advocacy ‘s first Ambassador Mustang turned 10 years old on 3/17/25 In most cases and for obvious reasons, a Mustang’s date of birth isn’t known. Lacy however was born at the Cañon City holding facility to …
Category: Stefanie’s Notebook
Mar 04 2025
Adopted: DG Aerin
The last and possibly spiciest of our Devil’s Garden Mustangs from last year has found her person: DG Aerin, facility born at the Double Devil Wild Horse Corrals to a mare gathered from U.S. Forest Service-Modoc National Forest in California. She’s grown into a tall, elegant, spirited powerhouse of a filly who is going to …
Mar 03 2025
Happy belated Gotcha Day Lacy
February (10th I think) marked the princess’ 8th gotcha day anniversary and 8 years of gentling Mustangs for me. I’ll never forget seeing the spicy, lanky filly dart around the round pen at Great Escape Mustang Collaborative ‘s Deertrail location, just sorted out of a group of other TIP horses (remember the Trainer Incentive Program?) …
Feb 11 2025
The privilege of carrying a rider
“Hop on ’em already!” is what I often hear as soon as I get a horse halfway gentle. It’s what I see others do even in light of what I consider obvious warning signs. And you know what? I respect that. You do you. Anyone who can get a horse going under saddle is doing …
Feb 10 2025
(Un-)becoming
I’ve always struggled to define who I am. I grew up firmly planted in the ‘in-between’. In between blue and white collar worlds. In between a failing communist regime and a country trying to redefine itself. In between big, gentle old-style Warmbloods, naughty ponies, draft horses used for logging living in tie stands or stalls …
Jan 30 2025
Valentine Update
Remember the little bay filly in Oklahoma, born in holding to a High Rock, NV Mustang mare that needed both a soft landing and training that I posted about a few weeks ago? We have an update that couldn’t be better The story was that she had been adopted, not handled much and wasn’t going …
Jan 29 2025
Mustang winter in the Rockies
I recently got the question “How do the Mustangs do in the winter?” We’ve had about a week of pretty severe cold (a normal part of high elevation Colorado winter), with daytime highs well below freezing for several consecutive days and the lows being… pretty low. The horses do great. The training horses have 24/7 …
Jan 15 2025
Adopted!
Beautiful Tillie, coming 3yo Twin Peaks CA Mustang filly, nuzzled and side – eyed her way into her new human’s heart this past frigid Sunday morning. We’re so beyond happy for her! She’ll be staying with Wild Horse Outreach & Advocacy for another month of additional training to get her to where her adopter wants …
Jan 12 2025
Thank you and please
“We don’t usually do this, but…” is not how I’ve begun any other post before, but here we are. *Before I let the out of the , I want to express my heartfelt gratitude for several very generous and unexpected year end donations, for our recurring donors and for everyone who took some of their …
Jan 10 2025
Rockstar
Credit for that hilarious play on “words” goes to Tay Martin . And to Rock because he really was a rock star at the New Year’s ride. Something like 88 riders and drivers came together to start 2025 on the right “hoof”. The weather was gorgeous, and the greenies, Taylor’s DG Juniper and Wild Horse …