Horsemen Quotes, Definitions & Superstitions
Quotes
(Not necessarily unique to the individual.)
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"He's sittin on plumb ready!"
"They may call them dumb jockeys, but I call them smart jockeys." About a horse that isn't showning much promise: In a recent friendly phone conversation with Tom Ferrebee, "I know you're hiding something out there that I want." Junior Seay |
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"Hard Times Will Make a Monkey Eat Red Pepper."
"He couldn't ride in a boxcar with the door nailed shut." When speaking of shackles, he referred to Reverend Ikes, and his famous quote: "You can't lose with the stuff I use!" In a conversation with a Morgan horse person and told a Park horse doesn't back (implying that Tom didn't know he was training a Morgan Park horse), Tom's reply was, "True, but a broke horse does!" When speaking of a fractious or jittery horse, "She's as nervous as one of them girls in church" or "Nervous as a long tail cat in a room full of rockers" "Mercy, mercy, me" On a chicken hearted horse, "His heart is about as big as a mustard seed, and every time you ginger him, you feel it" "Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and right don't wrong nobody!" Tom Butler |
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"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt!"
"You can't talk and listen at the same time" "You can learn something from anyone, even if it's what NOT to do!" Bud Butler |
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Speaking to Bud Butler in reference to the walk-trot mare Shadow's Untouchable (now named Forever Elegant): "If Chief White Eagle was working this hussy, she would have been a broodmare a long time ago"
Gray Barham |
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"Why are we all here? Cause we ain't all there......"
Stanley Edwards |
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"Ya'll quit twiddling your thumbs."
Khari Ryder |
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"There is no such words as I can't."
"Believe in the magic of your dreams, only you can make them come true." Clarence "Possum" Johnson |
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Term
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Definition
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| Pretty tasty in the kitchen | Good hocks |
| Commenced to climbing | Showing more motion the longer worked |
| Rack and trot a hole in the ground | Having both speed and form |
| Snatching his hock, bending his knee and looking where he's going! | Showing great motion front and back with ears well forward |
| Vanilla ice cream | Excess saliva produced when a horse has a responsive mouth wearing a bridle |
| No-count, common, nickel sonofabitch | (probably needs no explanation!) |
| Double Gaited | a horse that mixes up his trot and rack, but also used to refer to someone who is possibly bisexual or gay |
| Rared Back | wears a bridle exceptionally well |
| Chief White Eagle Mr. Charley |
A white person |
| Ridden by a witch | The mane and/or tail is all snarled up in dreadlocks. |
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Never put a hat on the bed
Never eat peanuts in the barn Only cut a horse's tail, geld or wean by the sign of the moon Never sweep anyone's feet with a broom (if you do, be ready to fight!) Never split a pole when walking with another person. ("split a pole" means to have one person walk on one side of the pole with the other person on the other side of the pole) Never come in one door and go out another. |
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