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Special thanks to The Old European Restaurant and Design Renovations for Sponsoring Mariah during her 2010 and 2011 show season! My little mustang that could. A mustang doing upper lever dressage? Who knew!?!? I certainly didn’t expect to progress in my own dressage training mounted on one of these tough little steeds. Mariah’s story begins in Oregon where she was adopted off of the Paisley Desert as a wild mustang. Mariah has a rich history. She was the "poster pony" for a natural horsemanship clinician. Her best known accomplishment was standing on a box. When she was purchased after her career with the clinician, her new owner led her up to a mounting block to get on her and was bewildered when Mariah proceeded to get on the block with all fours! The new owner had forgotten her past training!
After her career representing the Mustang breed at Natural Horsemanship exhibitions, she then moved on to her dressage career, earning Mustang of the Year at training level.
	My instructor (Dale Forbes) came across Mariah for one of her previous students. Eventually, she just didn't have the time to ride her. So naturally, I fell in love with her before she was mine and made an offer to buy her. She is so unassuming. At the time I first met Mariah, the barn was full with fancy German horses. One look at her, and you thought to yourself "oh how cute, but why is she here?". Until she starts working of course, then she lights up the arena! Mariah is a joy to ride as she is very intelligent, sturdy and has the constitution of a real “workman”. She is proving to be quite a nice show pony as she and I earned our scores for the USDF bronze medal rider’s award in just one season. Mariah and I are currently training FEI movements and continuing to work twordsour silver medal. Though it is exciting to show Mariah at the FEI
level, we are enjoying our training rides with Dale even more. It’s a joy to experiment with passage, piaffe and pirouettes, as well as long lazy rides out on the trail while we reminisce over the past few eventful years. I call Mariah my "war horse" for her stamina, consistency and willingness to go to work day in and day out. I adore her!" -Melynnda

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