A Good Horse (2010)
“Just having a vet look at the horse was a sign of how much they thought of him. When we sold Melinda Aniston the gray pony, all they did was look him over very carefully, flex his joints, trot him out, and let us know that if something turned up in the first week or two that showed we’d misrepresented him (given him some kind of drug, really), we would get him back and return the money. People bought and sold horses all the time, and having a vet go over every one of them would be very time-con...suming. When Daddy went to Oklahoma and bought horses, he went over them inch by inch himself and prayed for guidance, but if he needed a vet to find out something about a horse, then that was a horse he didn’t want, anyway.
The vet even brought an assistant to hold the horse and trot him out and to run to the truck and get this and that. They came at the end of the day, and I had work to do, but while I was riding Jefferson and then after I got on Happy, I could see them going over him. Daddy did things in the barn while they worked, and then I could see the assistant hand Daddy the lead rope, thank him, and get in the vet’s truck.MoreLess
The vet even brought an assistant to hold the horse and trot him out and to run to the truck and get this and that. They came at the end of the day, and I had work to do, but while I was riding Jefferson and then after I got on Happy, I could see them going over him. Daddy did things in the barn while they worked, and then I could see the assistant hand Daddy the lead rope, thank him, and get in the vet’s truck.MoreLess
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