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A little Twist info :)
Don't know how accurate

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Faster horses said:
I'm loving it!!
Thanks Puzzled for the article. I had never read that one as I recall.

I have Western Horseman magazines dating back to the '50's. I'm wondering what to do with them all. That's a collection of 70 years. Mr FH is wondering what I am going to do with them all, too. 🤣
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Better hang onto those Western Horseman, lots of interesting "stuff" in them.

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Puzzled said:
Found one more 🤭
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Thanks for posting. I absolutely LOVE the bottom of that pedigree. Now I know why Sabre Twist offspring were so good.

We were fortunate to own a direct grandson of LEO. He was an outstanding horse. Looked like Leo, but BIG and had a better back, with good withers. He stood 15-3 and weighed almost 1400#. Athletic, quick and gentle. He had a big motor, but he was the kindest horse you could ever find. He was out of the last son of Leo, "Buffalo Wooten". I think Buffalo Wooten took care of Leo, if I recall correctly, and the owners named Leo's last son after him. Our horse, we called Dan, was a strip faced sorrel with a couple of socks. Our daughter got a rodeo scholarship on him. She breakaway roped on him and headed on him and Mr FH headed on him as well. Dan HATED running barrels...and he let us know that no way was he going to do that. The people we got him from ran him on chariots when he was 2 or 3 years old and they came out of starting gates, so getting him used to a box to rope out of took some time. He was a great cow-horse. I rode him working cows, he loved it and so did I. I said when Dan was done, so was I. He had heart failure when in his late 20's and I've only ridden one horse since. Dan will never be forgotten by us. He was definitely one of the GOOD ones.
 
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Great story about Dan, those horses only come along once in a while.

Our long time stud was a son of B Wood a half brother to Leo. Put a beautiful head and disposition on his off spring. He came at his mother's ide from Leo Taylor at Wolf Point MT. She was his daughter's old barrel horse and raised us some more great foals. All quiet.
 
Big Muddy rancher said:
Great story about Dan, those horses only come along once in a while.

Our long time stud was a son of B Wood a half brother to Leo. Put a beautiful head and disposition on his off spring. He came at his mother's ide from Leo Taylor at Wolf Point MT. She was his daughter's old barrel horse and raised us some more great foals. All quiet.
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I have requested, that in my eulogy, it reads "she always rode good horses".
I've been so blessed to have ridden some good ones. My first ranch horse (remember I was a town girl) was a JB King bred horse that we called Kelly. He was 10 when we got him. He taught me so much. He was long and not very tall and could run like the wind. (I never knew how fast he could run, but Mr. FH had to test him one time when some cows were headed to a gate he left open--oh he left a lot of gates open--🤣--they had a big head start on him and he really kicked Kelly into gear to beat them to the gate. And they did. He said he felt like he was an inch off the ground when Kelly went into fast gear.) They used him in the Pony Express Race at the fair one year and he beat a race horse. But anyway, my deal with him didn't have to do with speed. It did with him showing me many things about working cows; pairing cows and baby calves and trailing them down a meadow and through a gate; showing me where cows were when I was looking straight ahead when gathering a pasture; he was so wise. Once he even stomped a foot at me...we were helping bring some bulls through some brush and through a gate. There was an irrigation ditch where he and I were standing. I wanted him to go across that ditch and we'd wait there. He wouldn't do it...he tried turning around, he tried backing up, he stomped his foot, and we went across the ditch. Those bulls went right behind us and got away. If we had stayed where he was trying to tell me to stay, the bulls would have gone in front of us and along the fence to the gate. He sure made a fool of me that day. But he taught me to pay attention to what was going on. It was a job, not just a joy ride. I'll never forget that horse and how he showed me to be in the right place at the right time.
 
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Ah ha, you have been fortunate to have had more than one special horse. It is amazing what they an teach us, if we
pay attention and are willing to learn.
And it is so much fun when one of the local ranch horses can beat a horse off "the race track"
 

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