How to train a mustang in 100 days: Paige and Nitis

“Would you like to see his favorite trick?” asks Paige Burnham as she helps her sorrel mustang Nitis bow to a visitor. The visitor, being me, is dumbfounded and all I can do is stand there with my mouth open.
Just three months ago, Nitis (Native American for “Red Boy”) was a wary wild horse, standing in a corner of a pen at the Meeker Fairgrounds. “He was super-reactive,” said Paige. Her mother, Leiah Burnham,…