The Foundation

Mushy Stohlmann, Ithaca, Nebraska

DISCIPLINES: Cowboying

RIDES FOR: Two-time World Champion Header Chad Masters

AGES: 3-year-olds and up

PROGRAM: When Masters, known for the time he puts into his green head horses, bought a young horse he discovered was terrified of cattle, he called Stohlmann to change the horse’s thinking. Stohlmann works for the University of Nebraska Research Feedlot, and the operation also runs a few thousand head of cows on grass. When Masters picked the horse up almost a year later, he barely recognized him.

“He checked all the pens, with no bridle, and that was really impressive to a team roper,” Masters said. “He made me get on him and check the rest of the pens without my reins, and he heeled a cow tied on, clucked to the horse, and he turned around and drug it. That horse always scored and was super broke from then on.”

For Stohlmann, the way that horse worked is how he wants all of his horses to ride.

“My horses are being hauled all the time, learning how to work a rope and ground tie and all that. But, when