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| 223266 | 11440 | Molded, Reverse Engineered, Handshaped by One Only...WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE TO YOU? | 68 | Bruce Fowler | Oct 13, 2021 | 2021-10-13T13:31:11-0400 | Sax-son said: OMG! You just reminded me of something that I got to do at age 14. My uncle had a ranch up in Watsonville where he had a small business rehabbing injured thoroughbred race horses. Because he was 6'3" and weighed close to 300 lbs., he was not a candidate to ride them. Enter yours truly who weighed maybe 115 at that age. To make a long story short, he, myself, and my young cousin got to run these horses at the beach near Moss Landing. He wanted me to first ride them casually in the close "white water" as he said that the salt water was good therapy for their legs. However, some of these horses were a little "spunky' and they wanted to "fly". On a couple of occasions I was riding a few at full throttle with just a jockey saddle. A little exhilarating and scary at the same time. He tried to talk my mother into me being a part time jockey for some of the "low level' races he was involved in, but she said 'absolutely not". Anyway, it was long before my weight went way past the acceptable jockey weight so my career as a jockey would have been "short lived". What an experience that was! Click to expand... THAT'S A CLASSIC STORY along with the other comments. Yup I rode bareback a lot and could stand on our horses as a pre teen. My brother & I would joust, but I usually lost becuz I'd be on Annabelle, my burro and he would tower over me on "Pandora" our Strawberry Roan. On one occasion I was asked if I was interested in making some money riding in the Fiesta Rodeo in Santa Barbara. They said, "you'll have a saddle and be racing other kids your age on an Ostrich." I asked them how fast do they go, and they told me about thirty. I declined....... sounded like a bad accident just waiting to happen. |