Word: remount
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...Small in the Saddle. On Dartmoor in England, TV Cowpoke Ross Salmon went for an off-camera canter on his cattle ranch, got tossed off by his skewbald mare Faithful, sent Faithful for help when he found he was too badly shaken up to remount, shivered all night after Faithful moseyed off in the wrong direction, gloomily told well-wishers: "I cannot think of anything more harmful for an experienced cowboy than to admit falling off his horse. I am afraid the kiddies will have finished with...
...jumper does not usually reach his peak until the age of 15 (ten years after most race horses have retired). The U.S.'s best jumper in recent years was Democrat, an Army remount horse, who was retired, finally, at 20, still in top form...
...Oriola, accustomed to the longer European jumping courses and hardly at home in the Garden, nonetheless was superbly mounted on his big chestnut Olympic horse, Ali Baba. Steinkraus was teamed up with an amazingly old (19) brown gelding named Democrat, a retired cavalry horse from the old Army Remount Service at Fort Riley, Kans. and a jumper of legendary prowess at many another U.S. horse show...
...training routine has both the exhausting overtones of a six-day bike race and the bewildering versatility of a five-ring circus. The day starts with 6 a.m. reveille. At 8, the candidates for the team put in more than an hour of riding, sharing six retired Army remount horses borrowed from Fort Belvoir. At ten, the group heads for the pistol range where Sharpshooter Troy puts them through their paces. Using .22 caliber pistols-because they are easy to shoot and ammunition is cheap-the squad practices pumping bull's-eyes into a man-sized silhouette...
Justice William O. Douglas, 50, enjoying one last ride in Washington's Cascade Mountains before going back to work at the Supreme Court, stopped to tighten a slipping saddle girth. When he tried to remount, the horse reared, threw him and rolled on him; then Douglas slid and sprawled down 50 feet of rocky slope. Injuries: 13 broken ribs and a puncture of one lung...