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Jack is working a Spanish-registry mustang. Note wind fence in background!

Working the mustang and a sorrel colt the second day. Colts were sat on the first day but not rode.

Learning how to ask the colt to pick you up off the fence.

Figgy started a 3 yr old mare, not hers, which had some serious issues and strange behavior with any rope pressure on her head.

Figgy's presence with the flag was enough to encourage the mare to move her butt to the fence.

First weight in the saddle.

The mare was fine about accepting a rider, as long as you left her head alone.

Before the day was over, those tangles had been unraveled (and maybe a few inside ones as well).

Another mustang named Blueberry. She was pretty serious about bucking with the saddle, so she was taken to a small pen for the first ride.

A larger pen made it easier for her to move around after she was accepting the rider.

She's getting pretty soft so they go to the roundpen.

Blueberry wads up a little, but the rider goes with her nicely, holding on to the saddle & not the rope.

Jack on Choppo, Figgy on Studly.

Figgy sits on the mare. This one needed lots of petting.

Jack's ready to lead the mare a few steps while Figgy pets her.

A short ride & they quit before the mare gets lost. Jack supports the mare while Figgy steps off.

Figgy exposes the mare to mounting from the ground, but doesn't get in the saddle.

Brent (who started the sorrel colt) offers to ride the mare. He was instructed to leave her head alone, pet her & just go with her.

They both did great & everyone agreed that this troubled mare had came a long way in 3 days.

End of The Trail. We returned from a ride to a nearby Buffalo Jump, ate lunch, loaded up & headed for home.

Camping at the Helena, Montana fairgrounds in our cowboy teepee on the way home