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.
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