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He is so right when he said " 'Cow sense is a difficult trait to describe in a horse. You need to be aboard, to feel how a horse responds to cattle, to feel how the good ones can instinctively anticipate what a cow or calf will do."Neat little story.
Rod Miller: The Thousand Dollar Horse
Columnist Rod Miller writes, "The Marlboro Man showed up at the ranch at the crack of dawn with a horse trailer. While we normally raised our own horses, Darrell Winfield had a proven eye for horses and it was always worth taking a look."
Dad had a couple that were that way. Once he short of people, so he put mom on one of his best horses. There was a calf that had crawled through the fence and wanted back with mama; that horse would not let it go, and all mom could do was hang on for the ride. In the ordeal mom had lost her hat, and dad gave her a bad time about losing her hat. I think that is the last time she rode. Dad was busy giving a bunch of steers larkspur dope to the ones that were down. The boss told him to put them in that pasture and not look back; a week later dad had someone go look at them. The ranch lost a bunch that day, and the boss never admitted that he was wrong.
