Posted on 07/05/2004 7:17:05 PM PDT by missyme
Edited on 07/05/2004 8:43:10 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
That's cool.
There are many cities that have a running of the bulls. Pamplona is the one that the news media features every year.
The only possible excuse for my blank mind is the backlash from attending more than my fair share of Independence Day celebrations,some that lasted well past the 4th. :}
Never cared much for "sports" and would have a hard time thinking of the names of a couple of football or baseball players but to be unable to remember Bill Pickett's name is getting mighty near to being un-American. :{
I figure one on one,a bull's got a pretty fair chance to get even in bullwrestling or riding.
Gosh you must be many girls dream....
Well that must mean many more people are going to the hospital rather than the 5 in Spain the Media speaks about...
He had BIG brass ones. Spradley was a fairly ugly horse but he was very smart and very good at what he did. Handsome is as handsome does.
The 101 Ranch, IIRC, had a good long tour, not as long as Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, but "crowned heads of Europe" and the whole nine yards.
Once in a Blue Moon,my wife will watch a short part of a baseball game on tv.We spend our time on the water,in the woods,etc.Life is good! :)
True torture for me is being stuck around a tv or radio with a "game" going.
Like I said you must be a girls dream, tell your wife she is a luck lady not to be a widow to the latest ball games.
Regularly,she comes home and tells me about boats that she's seen for sale that she thinks I might like.Very few wives do that.We've already got more,for different uses than you can shake a stick at but she knows that I make our "toys" pay for themselves.
Firearms,boats,camping,etc.,she likes 'em all.It's a hard old life but "somebody" has to do it.HeHee :o)
Your misdirected compassion for the bulls is apparently based on propaganda. With bull fighting, lion, elephant and cape buffalo hunting and others, the animals actually have a chance to kill the man. And, on several occasions, they do. Below is the "Fatal goring of Peter Mathew Tassio". Dead in minutes.
Photographs by Javier Campos
They were descended from wild horses that were domesticated and were real workers,tough too.
Their owner had hunted the wild ones for bounty(dead)when they were a big problem and caught some colts for himself.
The bounty hunting worked well enough that there were no longer any of the wild ones left in those parts and the man would cuss himself for helping hunt them out.His ranch was big enough that he could have kept a culled herd on his place easily.
Live and learn,I guess. :(
Coming from the hunter-jumper tradition as I did, I found them not particularly flexible, short and choppy in their gaits, high-headed, and most went inverted (with the forehand down and the back hollow instead of arched up).
But they're tough and they're quick, and they have legs and feet like iron. My job was riding fence and checking the water tanks, and my little sorrel cow pony would carry me all day without complaint so long as he could get his regular drink at the tanks every hour or so.
The cowboys kinda grinned at me when I put a snaffle bit in his mouth and started riding him on contact. But by the end of the summer he was carrying himself like a miniature dressage horse, back arched and weight on his haunches, and he could do shoulder-in, half-pass, and his "every others" (lead changes) at the canter. If I'd had another month or two he would have been doing his everies, he was extremely clever. He could have made a very good reining horse. As a practical matter, since he would do turns on the forehand I could open and close gates without ever getting off his back.
I wonder whatever happened to him. He was a nice little horse.
With his education,he probably owns the place now. ;O)
LOL!
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