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| Click the image above to see the entire poster and about the exhibiting event as well as the auction. |
It’s such an exciting time! This week, on Friday, the competitors for the Fort Collins, Colorado Mustang Makeover converge on several locations through out the west to pick up their horses. I will be collaborating with photographer Amy Spivey of Lightning Bug Creek Photography to paint the Makeover horses assigned to Madeleine LeClerc and Robert Carlson as they go through the 100 day process of taking a wild horse, taming it, training it and competing with it, to make it more adoptable.
So what is the Mustang Makeover?
Basically it is a way to take older mustangs, give them some basic handling and training ,then show case them before the world. The goal is to help make the older horses easier to handle then find new owners willing to purchase them, continue their training and provide them with a good home. This event was especially set up to target older horses that are more difficult to adopt and thus give them an opportunity to be matched up with good homes.
At the end of the 100 day period the horses are then shown in a special competition. All the horses are then auctioned off to the highest bidder on the final day.
To find out more about the Mustang Makeover events you can go to their website: Extreme Mustang Makeover: http://www.extrememustangmakeover.com/emmcolorado.php
To find out about all the events and activities of the Mustang Heritage Foundation go here: http://www.mustangheritagefoundation.org/
Madeleine LeClerc will be blogging about her training experience and once the blog is up and going we will link in here. In the mean time you can check out Madeleine and Roberts website http://westernclinics.com/RM_Performance_Horses/RM_Performance_Horses.html
