Mustang Smackdown What Happen?
The most interesting thing about the results, for me was not who won. But that all three of the first place winners were Kiger Mustang type dun ponies. Two quarter horses and a mustang dun named Winemmuca.
Mustang Smack Down
Mustang Smack down
It was in the hands of the bull owners of Spain and Portugal that the progenitors of the Kiger Mustang earned its reputation as the greatest stock-working animal in the equine world. In the valley of the Guadalquiver River Spanish Vaqueros used this horse in handling temperamental bulls. Few horses would feel comfortable working these dangerous animals, yet these horses appeared to delight in the work. With incredible speed and handiness, they maneuver an anger bull, dodging in and out barely missing the hooking horns when the bull charges.
The Kiger Mustang is a horse that has inherited from it progenitors five hundred years of “Cow Since”.
This coming Sunday in what could be considered one of the most unconventional approaches to an equine competition, at the Texas Classic, one of the nation’s largest Quarter horse shows, they will be pitting five American Mustangs against some best quarter horses in the world in what’s being billed as the “Extreme Mustang Smack down.”
The five American Mustangs will take on five of the best freestyle horses the Quarter horse industry has to offer in a “no holds barred” freestyle event. A winner-take-all purse of $5,000 is up for grabs in the event to be held at the Will Rogers Memorial Center May 25.
It’s said that the Quarter horse inherited their uncanny cow sense from five Spanish mustang mares that were the foundation of the modern Quarter horse breed. And what a breed. The American Quarter horse went on to earned the reputation, as the finest working cow pony in the world. This coming Sunday men and horses like USET Gold Medalist and World Champion trainer Pete Kyle of Whitesboro, Texas, will be competing in the Smack down with American Quarter Horse Chexy Dr Pepper, winner of more than $70,000 in NRHA competition and former year-end high-point reining horse in AQHA competition.
Against five American Mustangs, the results of trainers working 100 days to tame five America’s iconic wild Mustangs. These men and their mustangs will be given a chance to prove their mettle. Mustangs like the Dun Winnemucca.
We’ll see if the Spanish Mustang after five hundred years running wild in the American west still has what it takes to be a cowboy’s mount
We hope to be able to bring you some live video from the competition, I think you will enjoy it.
Clean Water Act 2007
Farm Bureau Working to Stop Expansion of Clean Water Act.
I’m sure that’s the right thing to do for farmers, but I’m not sure it’s the right thing to do for the environment.
The Clean Water Restoration Act of 2007 would expand the authority of the EPA and the Corp of Army Engineers beyond navigable waters and add also authority over ground waters.
This gives it the power to regulate activities that add pollutants from run off, pollutants from landfills and sewage lagoons run off from pesticides, and chemical fertilizers. And our pesticide formulations available today are between 10 and 100 times more potent than those sold in 1975. Roughly 85-90% of pesticides used for agriculture never reach target organisms, but instead spread through the air, soil, and water.
One third of the wells tested in California’s San Joaquin Valley in 1988 contained the pesticide DBCP at levels 10 times higher than the maximum allowed for safe drinking water-more than a decade after its use was banned. Ninety-five percent of all fresh water on earth is ground water. The average length of time groundwater remains in an aquifer is 1,400 years, as opposed to 16 days for river water. This suggest clean up a long term project ie prevention is a better solution, Estimates suggest that nearly 1.5 billion people lack safe drinking water
Clearly, the problems associated with water pollution have the capabilities to disrupt life on a planet-wide basis. Global environmental collapse is possible. We cannot ignore groundwater pollution no matter the economic consequences to agriculture. As a farmer I believe a workable solution must be found sooner rather than to late.
Important Tax Incentives passed for Kiger Mustang Breeders
The President signed into law an economic stimulus package that includes a major tax incentives for the Kiger Mustang allowing for new owners to write off, in most cases, 100% of your purchase price in the first year;begining in 2008. For more details see extended post in the tax section of the SWS web site.