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.