Steamboat native Cosette McLaughlin hands off wild mustang Finnegan to its new owner Madison Ostrowski during the auction for the Meeker Mustang Makeover. (File Photo)
One of the best mustang and wild horse trainers in the region, Steve Mantle of Mantle Ranch in Wheatland, Wyoming, will hold two clinics for the Meeker Mustang Makeover trainers on May 1 at the Rio Blanco Fairgrounds in Meeker, and the public is invited to attend.
Starting at 9:30 a.m., Mantle will hold his “Starting a Yearling” clinic, which is a two-hour clinic using a yearling mustang. The clinic will include watching Mantle gain the mustang’s trust and taking it through its first steps for the 10 trainers who will be picking up their yearling mustangs. Then starting at 1:30 p.m., Mantle will hold his “Starting a Three Year Old” Clinic, where he will start a 3-year-old mustang and work through the early first steps to get the horse ready for saddle breaking.