Spotlight on the Antelope Valley HMA, Nevada

Meet Valor 

Valor is a sweet, sassy, courageous mare that I picked up in Georgia at an adoption event. Valor was a long yearly at the time of pick up. She was rounded up from Antelope Valley HMA, Nevada. This HMA is located approximately 52 miles south of Wells. The highest point is High Peak Mountain at 9,258 feet in elevation and the lowest points are found in the valley bottoms and ranges around 5,000 feet. The area consists of 496,356 acres of BLM land and 6,553 acres of a mix of private and other public lands for a total of 502,909 acres. The wild horses in the Antelope Valley HMA are descendants from horses used by homesteaders, ranchers and miners. There is some evidence the Army Remount Service was active in at least part of the area during the early 1900‘s to the early 1940‘s. The dominant colors are bay, sorrel, black, brown, buckskin, gray and dun.
An incentive was in place to adopt some of these wild horses and show at a later date in a Trainer Incentive Program Mustang Challenge. I had four months to gentle, train, and get this filly moving nicely in hand, no riding as she was under two years old. We placed ninth overall out of over 100+ participants, not too shabby for our first show. After the show, we made our way back home for rest and continued training. When Valor was three, that's when she was mature enough to undergo saddle training.  While training is a never-ending process, she's a great horse with whoever handles her and wonderful addition to our herd.