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...cutting horse needs high spirits and a high I.Q. His highly specialized ranch job is to nose into a herd and cut away calves marked for market. Rancher Gay Copeland, president of the N.C.H.A. last year, sums up the requirements: "He has to be light on his feet, like a dancer. He has to be easy to turn, and a quick thinker. He has to know which way a calf intends to move, then outsmart...
Battle of Wits. By the final go 'round last week, it was apparent to the crowd that a four-year-old bay mare named Marion's Girl, a virtual unknown in cutting-horse circles, was the horse to beat. Owned by Rancher Marion Flynt of Midland, Texas, who bought her 18 months ago for $2,000, Marion's Girl took an early lead in points and was never headed...
...dodge game, the calf trying to get around the horse and back to the herd. Then the calf gave up-Marion's Girl gravely facing him, head on. Nose to nose they stood, frustrated calf and triumphant horse, while the crowd shouted its appreciation. Said one fervent rancher: "A cow pony with a master's degree...
...Texans not knowing how to ride horses, well, that isn't exactly true, but why should a rancher with excess cash ride one anyway when he can ride in a Cadillac? . . . BILL F. BROWN Longview...
...cost a lot of money for new equipment, 2) make it necessary for children to travel longer distances to class. Many farmers just feel like the Holt County rancher who explained last week: "My grandpa learned in that there little school. So did I, and so did my kids. If I got anything to say about it. my kids' kids will be learning in that selfsame little school...