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Post by C.utie.Pie on May 4, 2007 15:56:31 GMT -5
Jake Ely walked the Palimino stud around the arena.Drake raised his delicate nape his crown even with his withers.Jake sat deeper in the saddle and asked the horse to jog.Golden pillars thrusted black as coal flints into the ground.The horse's jog was noticable but was not mush faster then his walk.Jake asked Drake for a canter.The little fourteen hand stud had a rocking horse canter and moved lightly around the arena.Jake's darkly tanned body from years on the ranch swayed along like he was part of the horse.It was the horse's first ropeing lesson.He had only just turned four and was fairly new to rodeo.Jake rode to a box in partof the arena with one wall down. so it was closed on the back and sides but not the front.In the chute next to them was a young calf.They would chase it around the arena like a cutter and finnially Jake would rope it but the horse needed to know to get close.The chutes opened and the horse broke following from a distance and Jake asked him to go faster.The little Palimino got closer to the calf but stayed away still.Jake asked Drake to go faster still.They were now next to the calf.Jake leaned forward in the saddle in a position to rope and the horse slowed and Jake asked him to speed up and then he lifted the rope and bigan to make a loop.He then began spinning the rope and it spooked Drake.He threw the rope and it spooked the horse but he kept going so Jake threw the rope and stopped the calf.
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