Horses In My Life

[JimT]

From the past century ...

http://www.leverguns.com/taylor/horses.htm

[20cows]

Cool!!!

[gamekeeper]

JimT, I bet those photo's are full of memories!

I didn't lean to ride till I was forty (took me till then to find a Western Trainer ), never had any desire to ride English. I found a guy in the New Forest, Hampshire, that had imported some Quarter Horses from Canada, boy did I wish I'd learned earlier.

[Nath]

Yes cool, I don't ride but seem to be surrounded by horses.
Funny really as in what GK said, English don't interest me ever since the day at 23 years of age my wife and me got to know a couple whom the friends wife rode western and yes it just looks better somehow.

Thanks JT.

Nath.

[dr walker]

Beautiful horses, that Shay's Gal sure looks like a fine horse.

[JimT]

Beautiful horses, that Shay's Gal sure looks like a fine horse.

Her sister was Quarter Horse of the Year in '88 or '89 ... she was out of Pepper Red's stable .. Gal just was not fast enough to make any money but she made a durn good mountain horse.

[Griff]

It probably speaks ill of me, but when it comes to judging a man's character; how one treats & feels bout his horse(s) is like an open window into his nature. I'm wiiling to bet "difficult disposition" is a gross under-statement, and it's use sez volumes about the gentleman's generosity.

Bless ya, Brother Jim.

[JimT]

It probably speaks ill of me, but when it comes to judging a man's character; how one treats & feels bout his horse(s) is like an open window into his nature. I'm wiiling to bet "difficult disposition" is a gross under-statement, and it's use sez volumes about the gentleman's generosity.

Bless ya, Brother Jim.

Thank you sir and bless you also.

Hud ran free until he was 5 years old. He was captured and castrated all in about an hour. The old cowboy who cut him had just finished scraping the battery terminals on his old pickup with the knife and did not bother to clean the blade first.

So Hud had a few behavorial problems that were not entirely due to him alone.

Sometimes when leading him, he would suddenly set back and stop. At times he would then take off running backwards until he fetched up against a Mesquite tree or cactus or something that changed his mind. I never could figure out what it was that set him off .. it was different every time.

He was greenbroke when I got him and I taught him to neck rein and broke him to gunfire. I killed deer from the saddle on him without any problem, rifle and handgun.

And he had some qualities that I dearly loved. He absolutely loved to hunt! When we went out hunting he just got into it. I could rim out on top someplace, get out my binoculars and start looking and he would be too. And if he put his ears forward there was something there whether I could see it or not .. I learned that early on. He was like a birddog!

And he was the most sure-footed horse I ever rode. He would put his head down and look where he was putting his front feet when in bad country. I rode him down shale slopes I would have not wanted to walk down. Rode him in winter in snow and ice and he never slipped.

But then there were times when he just tried your patience ........

-sigh-

I still miss him.

[C. Cash]

Thanks Jim....looks like good times and some beautiful horses there.

[gunslinger598]

I know the feeling looking back at pics of some of the horses I've had. Over 400 head so far.

Looking at family on some of them and recalling that time.

Heck I'm still at it to. Been training 3 yr olds the past month or two.

I always like to see what other folks are doing with their horses to.

[kimwcook]

Thanks, Jim. Love my horses. Bought my last two as yearlings and they're now five. Greenbroke, but manageable. Shoulder surgery and other things kind of slowed their education down a little, but we'll get there.

My little sis and I on my two boys.

[BigSky56]

Jim, theres few things thats better than being ahorseback especially in the mountains. danny
If you want to see what man has built take a ride in a vehicle~If you want to see what God built take a ride on a horse EMERSON

[JerryB]

After having two back surgerys I had to sell off my horses, sure do miss working cows for folks around here.I have had some good ones and some ornery ones but they all worked when I needed them to, a couple would hunt too. That blue one of your daughter's is a fine looking one.

[winchester1886]

Jim T, just to have a Three Bars horse is an honour, my favourite horse of all time, and boy how much did he do for Quater Horses. As someone said those pictures would bring back some great memeries.