A Texas woman here in Las Vegas for the mustang competition helped in recovery efforts following devastating floods in Central Texas.
Crystal Cates and her search and rescue trained mustang named Zoro assisted in recovery operations after flooding killed more than 100 people in Texas Hill Country.
“None of us were expecting what happened,” Cates said.
The Mustang Champion Competition at the South Point Hotel showcases dozens of wild horses that were captured by the Bureau of Land Management and then adopted out.
Cates is in Las Vegas to help trainers in the competition, providing a brief distraction from the ongoing disaster response back home. She shared video footage taken right after the flooding where she and Zoro joined search efforts…