Hancock Horses question

[S.S.A.P.]

I'm posting these pictures for Faster Horses. A Hancock bred horse she mentioned in a previous post.

I have to say he's a good-looking horse for 25 years of age!

[Faster horses]

Thanks SSAP, for posting the picture for me.

That horse was so broncy when he was young, it is still hard for me to imagine him as a kids horse. He has been a really great ranch and team roping horse, but a kids horse, whoda thunk it?

But, pictures don't lie.

[Soapweed]

[Faster horses]

Tumbleweed. Soapweed.

Yea, I guess there is a difference!!

I'm sorry I mixed you up!

[Soapweed]

I had a Hancock bred gelding quite a few years ago. He was a pretty colored red roan, but that is where the pretty stopped. He was big and rugged, but certainly no halter horse. He was the thinnest hided horse I ever owned, and about the only horse I've ever sored. Right under the cinch area, he got big open sores. This was just from one fairly hard ride one morning that turned into half an afternoon before arriving back ant the ranch. He was one of those horse I didn't own very long and soon had him traded off for something I liked better.

[Big Muddy rancher]

SSAP when I first saw those pictures you posted I said "Boy she wasn't kidding when she said she was short" Then I read the captions and got straightened out.

Little muddy was happy to night as the colt that wasn't moving out started walking out for her today. She had driven him some more and was just persistant in trying to get him going. The other 2 she is riding were going pretty good today as well.

[Faster horses]

That's good news, BMR. Thanks for the update!

[gunslinger]

just saw your post today, just wondering if that was Ben or Sam? And if he was the one i was supposed to ride in the queen contest? Beautiful picture by the way.

[Tumbleweed]

Hey gunslinger welcome abourd here and that was Sam holding down that heifer to doctor. You did ride him and so did several other ladies. He was always a gentleman when a lady was on him.

One time he got away from me and was bucking, bawling and really tearin up the dirt trying to throw the saddle off. Grandma was there with acouple of the neighbor ladies and her eyes got pretty wide and she said "thats the horse I've been riding"!

[Curly]

Around here we think of Hancock's as being good horses for guys who ride a lot and need a tough horse. They are not know for very pretty heads but they are built real tough in the body. They are hard to teach but once they learn it they don't forget. As mentioned earlier I think a lot of this anymore is environment-- especially as we get further and further from the original blood.

[Brad S]

soapweed, My bro- in -law (vet) was just telling me about a malady that caused the extreme skin sensitivity you noted. I'll ask him more and get back. I think its genetic.

[Soapweed]

That happened 17 or 18 years ago, but he was sure thin-hided enough to be soreable. Besides, he was tall, long-legged and not very agile on his feet. A local horse rancher raised him, and even though most of the horses wearing his brand had a fairly good reputation, this particular roan didn't have much going for him.

The old horse rancher was a small man but a very good cowboy. He took care of a lot of yearling cattle in the summertime, and would ride one horse and lead another horse that was saddled. If he found a yearling that needed to be doctored, he'd drop the horse he was leading, and then rope the critter. Then he'd whistle for the other horse to come and use it to heel the yearling, so he could tail it over to do the doctoring. He had a pretty good one man-two horse system.