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where some of the country’s
top horse trainers must gentle
and train horses straight from
the wild in preparation for
competition Sept. 18-21 in
Fort Worth, Texas.
Gray is also among three
Georgia horse trainers select¬
ed by the Mustang Heritage
Foundation to participate.
After completing an ardu
ous application process, Gray,
Drew Olsen of Villa Rica and
Marc Chancey of Augusta
received their horses June 14.
Gray said the mustangs
were rounded up in Clark
County, Nev. just south of
Las Vegas. They were then
castrated, vaccinated and
taken to a holding facility in
Illinois for distribution to
trainers across the country,
But the trainers only have
the horses temporarily. “It’s a
lot to cram in to 100 days,”
Gray said.
At event’s end, the horses
are sold at auction with the
proceeds benefiting the
Mustang Heritage Found
ation, an arm of the Bureau of
Land Management designed
to preserve and promote the
adoption of American wild
horses.
The whole purpose of
this deal is to try to get these
things noticed and get a few
more of them adopted out,
Gray said.
And Johnny Cash is near¬
ly ready to ... well ... walk
the line.
Within three hours of his
arrival at Blackthorn Farms,
Gray had Johnny Cash wear¬
ing a halter. And, remarkably,
within the mustang’s first
three days on the farm, Gray
had gentled him enough to
ride.
Since then, Gray has
worked Johnny Cash about an
hour a day, four or five days a
week. The two have covered
30 to 40 miles of trails in the
Dawson Forest Wildlife
Management Area.
Already, the training has
netted the pair a second place
at the recent Midway Saddle
Club show.
“I’d always believed that a
real spoiled horse would be
harder to work with than a
wild horse,” Gray said.
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prove myself right or wrong
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Mustang Johnny Cash and Eric Gray stand in the ring.
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And after eight weeks,
Gray seems to have taken a
liking to the equine form of
his country music hero.
In fact, while Gray’s repu¬
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showing in Fort Worth, he’s
already thinking about what
happens after the “makeover”
ends,
When Johnny Cash is
offered for sale, Gray may be
placing bids.
“I knew that when I got
into this deal and said, ‘aw,
that won’t really be a big
deal,”’Gray said,
"Now, I’m trying to find
something else around here I
can sell so I can find a stall to
keep him in. He’s just kind of
a special little horse.”
E-mail Ben Holcombe at
benholcombe@forsythnews
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