I do remember that now... I remembered the image but I thought it was her. It was when he was still at the original house, and the owner had gotten drunk and driven him home where he shouldn't go or something... right? And then his knees weren't pretty enough for the snotty woman, and they sold him, right?
You got me now but I think you are correct.
Yeah, you're right. I just got the book out and looked.
You know I read that book as a kid alot. But after I got horses, and started learining about them, alot of things took on whole new meanings. I swear everytime I'm going down a trail and my horse wants to turn at some point, and I want him to go straight, I think of that part in the book where that one man reported to the father of that boy about seeing the boy beating on some pony that had tried to turn into it's old driveway from habit.
Becky
Ok, now I know what happened. I had my book right here. It was a drunk named Reuben Smith that broke Beauty's knees. It was his second or 3rd owner, he was riding Beauty full speed and was too drunk to notice that he threw a shoe. He was running on rocks, being whipped to go faster, tearing up that foot and stumbled from the pain, landing on his knees.