jlw45: half thoroubred ?...that could've been a long fall, if it took after the thoroubred side .....the horse that almost did me in was a stupid green broke horse that had to be mule reined....i thaught she was just raring up but she went all the way over...it happend in just a seconds time....the saddle horn glanced across my left rib cage....my pants were ripped from midway of my zipper, to inbetween my back pockets...my johnson was black and blue....it looked like a ripe plum, the next morning
Mine rared on ocassion but she couldn't throw me. I rode with most weight in the stirrups. If I felt her doing crazy crap I rode the stirrups harder and hung on. The only time she made me hit the ground was she ran under a very low tree branch. And I swung over one side of her And missed the tree myself, but she caught the saddle horn, it jarred the saddle enough that I hit the ground.