I broke and trained most of my own horses until I was in my 40’s. The last one was a gray mule. He nearly killed me, so I retired from that. I got him broke to ride though.
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Horse wrecks! I’ve had a few, broke and trained young horses when I was younger, then rode reiners. Had one go over backwards on me, on a cement barnyard, he was cinchy. But my fault. My head smacked the concrete first and knocked me out, otherwise it really would have smarted when he landed on me. It did smart later anyway. But your remark about looking up and seeing that foot coming down reminded me of going over and seeing that horse coming down. YIKES.
Anyway, hope Petey feels better soon.
I hope Petey is better soon too! It's worse to get boo-boos at our age than it was when we were young.
The mule hated dogs. I got him to ride in wagon trains. Everybody takes their dogs on the trains. I found out pretty fast that wasn't going to work out. :-)
This is from one of our wagon trains. My daughter is on the big bay horse. I'm in the blue hat on my retired barrel racing Leopard Appaloosa. He was the BEST trail horse. His only problem was that he loved beer and there was a lot of beer on wagon trains. As long as I tied him where he couldn't untie his own rope, we did fine.
My Appaloosa was cinchy too if you got it too tight. He didn't go stupid but he would whip his head around and nip me on the butt. That was his signal that it was enough.
