Working equitation

I ended up with a Mustang diagnosed with navicular disease and a whole ton of issues related to the hoof.

So when I was watching some clips from the world championship in working equitation in Spain, I noticed that there were a few Mustangs there and at least one of them I noticed was barefoot.

So I wanted to reach out to Matt French and talk to him about his journey in working with his Mustang, how his hooves have been, how it's been training him barefoot and how it looks competing on a horse at high level without hoof protection.

All right.

actually I this is kind of embarrassing.

I don't follow anything in terms of competitive riding.

Like I didn't really even know what working equitation was until my friend Kierley sent me a clip saying, like, did you know that there are Mustangs in the working equitation world championships this year? And I had no idea.

I just happened to have two Mustangs and I'm obsessed with them.

It's only because this guy has this horse that I'm interested in.

But I've gotten obsessed with something I've never been interested in, working equitation.

So we just sent a team to Spain for the World Championship Working Equitation.

It's the first time America has sent a team.

And they have been killing the social media game and posting everyday updates and videos of what they're doing.

We actually did okay.

The U.S. team ended up, I think, eighth overall.

And in one of the events, it worked like the Jamaican bobsledders in the world of working equitation.