Hey Everybody,

I haven’t had a chance to write a blog since we all got back from Texas, and that was all the way back in September, but it’s never too late! I’m just going to tell everybody about our trip to Texas for the Supreme Extreme Mustang Makeover. First we took two mustangs to Tennessee. Leslie Lloyd is the owner of Viggo, the mustang that my mom trained, and Mary Kay Soergel is the owner of Sparrow that Lauren trained. I was going to train a mustang along with my Mom and Lauren, but there was an age limit on this particular mustang challenge.

When we got to Tennessee we stayed over at our friend’s house, who was also participating in the challenge, and we took their two horses down to the competition too. Instead of taking two trucks and trailers the whole way from Tennessee to Texas, we drove together. We both wanted to go down a few days earlier than the actual challenge started, so our horses could get a chance to adjust to the heat and get some rest from the long ride.

We stayed at a place called Kyle Ranch, which is where Pete Kyle and his wife Tamera live. They are huge into the sport of reining and we got to see a famous reining horse named Einstein’s Revolution. He lives at that ranch – it was so cool! It was really nice for us because we could relax a little and they had a swimming pool, so when it was super hot we went swimming and got a refresher. I even did most of my homework just with my legs in the pool, hoping not to drop anything :). While we were staying at their place we also got to haul out to a couple other ranches and work some cattle, because in these patterns you have to either jump or work cattle, and both, Lauren and Mom chose to work cattle because they didn’t really have the jumping ‘type’ of horses this time.

Now its time for the challenge and we are on our way to the Supreme Extreme Mustang Makeover! The first day was just haul in and a trainers meeting. Then the second day was the start of the competition and both mom and Lauren did their trail course and a ridding portion where you have to perform specific maneuvers. The next day they both did the course where they had to work a cow. That is a lot harder than you think it is especially when you don’t have cows to practice on everyday! We didn’t do as good as we would have wanted to but lets face it, we only worked cows like twice and the cow work class was really important in this competition scoring wise. Overall we had a total BLAST and we got to go out to eat mostly every night, and we went to the Stock Yards which was really cool.

I also have some more great news to share: mom and I are going to be doing special clinics and demos at a couple of expos next year! I can’t wait to show people how cool my mustang Jacuzzi is!
So I’ll see you all in the next two weeks and share some more exciting news about what’s been happening at NLH!

Brooke