Reminds me of one of Mom's horses that was mine to ride all the time I was growin' up. Handy, we called him. I never saw him give a woman or even a little girl the least bit of sass, but with a man, it was forever a contest. We had an understanding, but it would take the first coupla minutes EVERY day to get things sorted out so that I was gonna be the boss.
I was bent over cleanin' out his left hind hoof one day when he came around and gave me a hard nip on the butt. I came up up all in one move and my aim was to catch him with the back of my hand across his nose, and if my class ring caught him, all the better. Instead, I caught him in the teeth with the hoof pick. He never so much as nipped at me again.
As far as the girls? Same horse. We'd bought him as a 6yo, and he'd only been gelded the year before. He was a foundation type quarter horse, so he was pretty studly and, come breedin' time, we used to use him to tease the mares. We did this for about four years until one day he blew up in his stall as we led the mare up. Didn't seem right. We called up the folks we had bought him from and they allowed as how even before they gelded him they'd noticed that he seemed to only have one, and assumed that he'd lost the other one in a truck accident he'd been in as a yearling. Right. This was before ultrasound, but we took him up to Ohio State. They opened him up and found the other one. Poor old Handy. Four years of havin' mares in heat paraded past his stall. I mighta been a little testy, too.
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