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be held for the top-10 highest scoring competitors. Ribbons and Prizes will be awarded to the Top 10 finalists. We are currently seeking Sponsors for the event to help with prizes! When I was presented with the possibility of helping produce a mustang training competition I was very excited. My goal of helping save one mustang at time, now had the potential to be involved in helping many mustangs being saved all at once. I also felt like this was an opportunity to help shape young peoples lives. So many of our youth are feeling lost, unwanted, and alone. They are seeking out ways to survive this world and many of them find a path that can lead to destruction, much like our wild horses. By giving these junior and youth trainers the opportunity to gentle a wild horse, my hope is that they to will see themselves in these horses. That every person and horse, no matter what society sees as being worthless, actually has the potential for greatness. That learning to trust and lean on someone that can take care of their needs will lead to success not only in life’s goals but emotionally and spiritually as well. Joshua 1:9 Fear not for I am with you. Cindy Branham- Trainer/ Clinician from Tecumseh, Kansas. www.cindybranham. com Cindy Branham is a graduate of the John and Josh Lyons Certified Trainer Program. She has had a very successful Coaching and

Training program for 20 plus years. From coaching students from the start of their equine education to them winning local, National, and World Championship titles and year end awards. Students of all ages have excelled under the direction of Cindy Branham. Mustangs have been a huge part of Cindy's life in the past 11 years, starting in 2007 in the very first Extreme Mustang Makeover, Cindy has been a top competitor making it to the finals and Reserve Champion Mustang Magic. She and her horse Tucker the Mustang have been finalists in Extreme Cowboy Races, The Televised America's Favorite Trail Horse Competition, Reserve Battle of the Breeds Champion Equifest of Kansas, and The World’s Most Beautiful Horse Breed Competition Champion. Cindy Branham has been a featured guest on Rick Lambs RFD TV Show and multiple times in the Extreme Mustang Makeover RFD TV Specials. Cindy Branham is sponsored by Total Equine.

divisions: Junior 8-13-year old and Youth 14 – 18-year old’s. All trainers competing in the event purchased/adopted their mustangs for $25.00 and can choose to keep or auction/sell their mustang at or after the event. The 22 Selected trainers had to go through an application process where they had to provide letters of reference from their legal guardians on the trainer’s personal experience and work ethic when working with horses and from a Professional Trainer or accomplished horse person that agreed to mentor the young trainers during the training process. The Junior and Youth Trainers picked up their assigned Mustang in Hutchinson, KS at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility on Saturday May 12, 2018. The Yearling Gelding Mustangs were pre-assigned to the trainer randomly prior to pick-up. Trainers will have from the day they pick up their Mustang until the day they arrive at the event to train and work with their Mustang. The Mustang Beginnings Challenge will be held at Mustang Days at the Kansas State Fair, Hutchinson, KS Sept 15 & 16, 2018. The competition Preliminary classes will include Condition & Handling, Trail and Free Style. A finals competition consisting of a pattern in hand class including a “Free Choice” maneuver will

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