Interview with Molly Jenks
1.
How long have you been working with the
mustangs?
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February of 2010.
2.
How did you get into working with the mustangs?
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Well the economy had slowed down a lot, really
slowed down and I had extra time. So I just decided I would give it a try.
Honestly since it was in my hometown Norco, I just decided it wouldn’t hurt to apply and when I got excepted I
thought it wouldn’t hurt to get a horse. Then the rest is history, truly I had
the time to devote because I knew it was going to be more time than just
training a regular horse and since my business had slowed down so much, I knew
I had the time.
3.
How did you hear about the mustang competions?
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I had read about it in different publications
and of course being in Norco the competion was in Norco, they had really put out a ton of flyers and in the
horse trader and stuff because the competion was in Norco, they had really
tried to I think campaign to get Norco people to do it. So I had pretty much
heard about it through Facebook, western, horse trader, because at the time I
was not on their email list so mainly through social media is how I found out
about most of it.
4.
When you were doing your first mustang did you
have anyone helping you?
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Nope all me. Even though it was the first
mustang I had ever done, at that point I had been training horses for 15 years,
so I just did what I knew to do.
5.
What mustang is your most memorable?
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I would say Yeager since he was my first one and
really not that I am overly, I don’t really believe in, well I hate to say that
I don’t believe in destiny, but there was some reason that that horse was
chosen for me and how he has become such a huge part of my life. So I would say
the Yeager would be my most memorable mustang because he was my first one. Then
out of the rest of them I would say that my second most memorable would be
Pendleton who I sold in Texas in 2011. So he was, Yeager was the first one, I
got Jake for a client, and then Pendleton. Yeager definitely takes the cake and
Pendleton would be a really close second.
6.
Did Pendleton challenge you more?
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Oh yes, oh yes. Pendleton is what they call a
third striker, so he had been passed over for adoption and the competion that I
did with him is more, well it is an invite only competion and instead of being
able to apply for it. So Mustang Heritage invites trainers to compete in the
Mustang Magic which is in Fort Worth every year. So that is because they give
more challenging horses in that competion, they want to make sure that there
isn’t any not quite as advanced people trying to train these horses because
they are more challenging definitely. He was definitely more challenging, I was
not on him until day 45 out of 100. Where I was on Yeager on day 14 so he was
much more challenging
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