02-03-2005, 02:55 AM
Marion,
That is truly one funny story, although I am surprised that anyone who claimed to know animals could not have expected that horse would stop on a dime at the quarter-mile mark, just as he had been doing all along. Now, if Coppertooth had been, say, a dude, like maybe some eastern boy from back east...someone who had never seen or been around a horse... but he was a farmer, one who claimed he knew animals! Oh, well, perplexing, but still, very funny when you picture that horse skidding to a stop! Which conjures up yet another picture, equally funny in its own funny-sick kind of way: That of the rider being pitched forward over the horse's neck and through the air when the race came to an abrupt end. 
Marilyn