Saturday, December 15, 2018

BAXTER BLACK TANGO SED


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 track and 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 took  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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