I’ve got 1 mustang and one half mustang. The BLM guy is a pony. Good enough for a small man or most women, but there isn’t a big market for small ponies who are too much for a small kid to handle. The half-breed is a good horse, but he’d win no prizes for looks. They both have good minds provided the rider knows how to work with them.
I expect them both to stay with me for life. They are both good horses for the local trails. My family likes them both. But I couldn’t get squat for them on the market.
IIRC, there are nearly 50,000 BLM mustangs in the holding pens, and roughly 2,500/year get adopted. That math doesn’t support the idea that mustangs are “almost perfectly conformed.” I’d be willing to take another mustang but can’t afford any more horses. I notice just about no one in the ‘save the mustang’ crowd even owns ONE.
” I notice just about no one in the ‘save the mustang’ crowd even owns ONE.”
Boy, is that the truth.
Nothing wrong with a good trail and general riding horse - in fact my big hunters would not be good trail horses. Besides the fact that I would be hitting every low lying tree limb and getting all the spider webs, a springy hunter trot is NOT the way you want to spend 2-3 hours! that's why the Plantation Walkers are so popular . . .