If you've been following our blog, or have been around Granny's House the last several years, you know that several of our "Spirit Riders" girls have participated in and event called the Extreme Mustang Makeover and have traveled to Texas, Tennessee and Illinois as a part of this challenge. This challenge requires youth from around the nation to train and "tame" a wild mustang for 90 days. At the end of this time, the youth get together and compete to show off their training skills, and see how well they did! Starr is one of our mustang trainers who has been participating in this event since the very beginning (3 years ago), and this year, was invited to participate in the challenge once again!
Starr and her trainers (Sue Crane and Riki Shipley) traveled to Mississippi a few weeks ago to pick up Starr's 3rd Mustang! Upon meeting her, Starr named her "Beauty" and INSTANTLY fell in love. Knowing that wild mustangs are often unpredictable, hesitant and avoid human contact out of fear, Starr was cautious as she approached Beauty. However, Starr must be a little "Mustang Whisperer" because the only time Beauty WAS happy...was when she was petting her!!
Starr has made AMAZING progress with her horse and on the second day back, she was already doing things that took her MONTHS with her other horses!
We are so proud of Starr and Beauty!
