Western Idaho Fair 2012

Well, gang........What can I say?   Here is the 2012 Idaho State Fair 'Mustang Trail' Grand Champion!  He also placed Second in the Halter Show.  

It's been a busy few weeks preparing Marty for his 'Debut' at the Fair, but now I can say it was all worth it!  

My friend Sabine from Austria arrived late Monday night.  She worked with Marty Tuesday through Thursday, and then showed him on Friday!  Marty stood perfect all day long at the fair and waited for his 2 events to come up: Halter Show and Mustang Trail Challenge.  Both Sabine and I have already realized that there is not too much that gets Marty excited but I was really pleased he did so well during the events.  And Sabine was fabulous as his handler.  I don't think we could have placed first in Trail Challenge if I would have showed him.  At the last minute we found out the Challenge included some side-stepping which Marty has not even been trained to do yet.  However, Sabine knew what to do to get him to side step and he did wonderful!  And then I found out later, she had a few tricks up her sleeve to impress the judges even more.  Sabine was supposed to lead Marty up to a roping calf statue and touch it.  Well after Sabine touched it, she also had Marty touch it with his nose too!   Great move Sabine!  

Marty and Sabine

So it was a very very exciting evening for us both!  We will float on this win for quite some time I'm sure!

                                                Sabine, Marty, Joy

So this ends the Fair portion of Marty the Mustang!  It'll take a lot to top this!  But I will still post the training progress and events that we do from this point on!  Thanks for staying with us!