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C**t Starter in Caldwell, ID

31/05/2025

First sits on this big boy. 7 yr old mustang from Sheepshead Heath Creek. He’s been very slowly coming along but we have turned a huge corner this week!

17/05/2025

Jaäger struggles with confidence. I can saddle him and bridle him and do all of those things, but he’s not comfortable or relaxed for any part of it. He still backs away when approached, and I often say he’s scared of his own shadow. We have been taking a lot of steps back to nail down his confidence instead of just pushing him through to riding. I decided to pull out H***h today and see how Jäger responded to the added confidence from another horse. Jäger SHINED today. It was by far the most relaxed session. We started off shy of me touching him and ended being able to stand super close side by side and rubbed all down his back with a relaxed low head.

07/05/2025

We have one more training spot open that we are hoping to get filled!

We focus on strong ground work, and good fundamentals, creating good citizens out of your equine partners. We are strong believers in putting miles outside of the arena on our training horses, and not just training in the round pen and arena. If you are looking to have a good foundation on your horse, please message us!

We require a minimum of 60 days on saddle starts.

We are located in Notus, ID.

09/04/2025

Here is Chaney’s top 5 picks for the Teens and Oregon Mustang Challenge! Looking forward to getting one of these guys home in June!

08/04/2025

Excited to jump back into some Mustang competitions again this year after having our sweet little rainbow baby! We will be competing in the Teens and Oregon Mustang Challenge in October.

We won’t know which of these hunky boys will be coming home with us until it loads onto our trailer in June!

We are still waiting to get our other pick, because my wonderful husband decided to jump in on the action too! So we will have not one but TWO coming home with us in June for the competition!

07/04/2025

Thank goodness for BioMane Products detangler. First time this mustang’s tail has been brushed out. That’s years of tangling right there, and I didn’t have cut anything out. Still a nice full thick tail 😍

06/04/2025

Think outside of the box! 📦

Sometimes you need to think outside of the box with horses. Sometimes your normal techniques just don’t work. This Eagle mare has been gentled and and is very relaxed with touch all over, great with tossing the pad on, and great with an English style cinch and a ba****ck pad, but throw on a western cinch and/or saddle and she loses it.

This mare would always turn her butt toward you when you went to tighten the cinch and I originally told her owner, Kari, that she was being disrespectful, because she’s really looked like she wanted to kick you. Well after watching her more, I told Kari to step to the mares right side and pull the cinch tight, because I wanted to see if she still moved her butt end toward Kari, or if she moved away, which would tell us if she was actually moving from the pressure of the cinch being tightened. After testing it, it was confirmed the movements she was making before were out of confusion of the pressure of the rings of the cinch, and not actually disrespect. So we swapped her surcingle around and cinched her up from her right side instead of the left, and low and behold, she moved AWAY from the pressure of tightening, bot toward Kari. So we did it over and over, lunging her between each time, until she stopped moving away when we tightened the cinch. We then swapped it back to the normal left side and cinched her up with no twitching, no moving, just a leg cocked like she’d been cinched up and broke her whole life.

Sometimes we need to take a step back and not compare every reaction to another horse and cross off every possibility, instead of jumping to conclusions. Our goal now for this mare is to get her so comfortable with this that it’s perfected before we move back to the saddle. This has been a challenging mare for a first Mustang for Kari but she has come leaps and bounds since October.

31/03/2025

Now that we are coming into better weather, and I’m no longer pregnant 🤰🏼 we are opening back up for training spots!

We focus on strong ground work, and good fundamentals, creating good citizens out of your equine partners. We are strong believers in putting miles outside of the arena on our training horses, and not just training in the round pen and arena. If you are looking to have a good foundation on your horse, please message us!

We require a minimum of 60 days on saddle starts.

We are located in Notus, ID.

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