BAXTER
BLACK HUMOR
ON
THE EDGE OF COMON SENSE
A
HORSE NAMED TANGO SED
Tango
Sed was a horse from the New Mexico pastures and this story
was
passed along by Annie, a jockey and trainer of good reputation
from
that place.
She
tells that a horseman, Clyde, who ran horses at San Juan Downs
Race
Track at Farmington, New Mexico, spotted Tango in a pasture
near
by , watched him a day or two, liked what he saw, bought the 4
year
old
stud.
Tango
Sed was fast, real fast, trouble was no body could stay with him,
all the local cowboys tried as well as trainers, retired jockeys,
weekend
buckarroos,
rough necks, silversmiths, auctioneers, and some parolees.
No
one could stay with him. Local bronc busters were called upon,
they
eared
him down, mounted, got bucked off as all the rest.
So
Clyde, much disappointed , bit he bullet and sold Tango to a
Navajo
over
in the reservation. Six months later Tango and the Nahajo showed
up
at the race trackand tango and the Navajo smoked the competition,
winning
the 250, 330, and 400 and quarter mile races.
After
the races, Clyde went to the barns and found the Navajo, gave
him
his congratulations and such and asked him how he broke him.
The
Navajo told Clyde he toke him home, tried to ride, got bucked off,
his
brother
tried, got bucked off, his cousin tried, got bucked off. This went
on
every
day for almost a week . One day , maybe the fourth day, I got on
him
and rode him, as did my brother and my cousin.
“
Guess he got hungry and thirsty”.
ABSTRACT:
Baxter Black, “On The Edge of Common Sense”,
11
December, 2018, Delmarva Farmer.
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