jlw45: i used to like riding....until one jumped over onto its back, with me in the saddle ....my back can go out, to this day, because of it .....that was 20 years ago....if i'de had a gun, i would've shot that horse when i came to.... ..........
{damn, i think i've hid in my last three posts.... }
I had a mean horse and she was always trying to throw me. She would take off and head for a barbed wire fence and slam on her breaks. Once she slammed me into some trees and put a locust tree thorn thru my knee cap. I got tough with her after that. But she still liked to run away with people sometimes. She was half thoroughbred and half quarter horse.
So one day I hooked a rope to her bridle down to the chest strap so she couldn't stretch her neck out too far. And when she ran away with me on her back, I lifted up in the saddle and stretched up to her and covered both of her nostrils.

Omg that horse came to a stop real quick. And from that day on she never ran away with anyone.