"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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That "country fellar" wasn't too sharp.
A real one-hour horse should be home in 45 minutes and a two-hour
horse in 90 minutes.
Besides that, he couldn't tell them apart.
Pretty good, Chuck. I don't know if you're pulling my leg or not.
I'm pretty wary of what former yacht brokers say.
Speaking of pulled legs, the nag that gave me a butt thumping tried
that too. That's how she started her campaign against me.
Tried rubbing me off against trees.
And the standing still stubborn trick? Yep.
But she jumped in a river first, then stood there until I was
thoroughly soaked.
My buddy stood watching on his horse, nice and dry, laughing his ass
off, commenting about what a poor cowboy I was.
Joe Cafone of Nutley, NJ, horseman.
Hell, the closest he ever came to an animal before was the pigeons
he raced.
In cowboy fashion I finally heeled - didn't bring my spurs - the horse
up the steep river embankment (although I'm not sure the horse was
aware of me) and insisted we trade horses.
Knowing pigeons as well as he did, Joe readily agreed and we swapped.
Joe lasted about ten seconds before the horse had him in the river.
He got her out, but wanted his horse back, so we swapped again.
Then the horse bolted full tilt across a big pasture. I lost my
stirrups, and the down stride had my ass a foot off the saddle, while
the up stride banged my balls back into it.
Very painful indeed..
Soon I dropped the reins and was holding on for dear life with my
arms around the nag's neck. Of course now I was getting a full
frontal banging on the saddle horn. Would have fallen off except
she stopped when we reached the tree line.
That hour was a long day, and that animal had its way with me.
Nobody would have mistaken me for Eddie Arcaro.
I gave up my jockey/cowboy/equestrian career the same day I started
it, and never whispered to another horse.

--Vic


that's the trouble with trail rides. The horses get to know every foot and
just go through the motions. Run here, wait there etc.
The few times I went out, I was always concerned about the loose rocky
trails. Soil is very rocky here along the coast.