Oct 4, 2011

Will Success spoil Erin Bolster?

Let's hope not. Any 19 25-year-old beauty who will aim her horse at a charging grizzly to save a little boy is a woman you young guys should be fighting to court. You just have to trust  Providence that she's looking at her Letterman gig as a lark rather than a ticket to celebrity hood.

Any mention of this Montana story also requires a nod to Tonk, an 18-hander that, around here, would be referred to a a BFH.

7 comments:

SpeakerTweaker said...

WOW. That is amazing.



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JohnW said...

BFH?

Jim said...

Big ... eerrr, Fine, yeah ... Fine is the adjective in front of Horse.

Eighteen hands is a near-monster. Erin thinks it may be a quarter-horse/percheron cross.

Anonymous said...

Oh. I should have known that.

Anonymous said...

One look at Tonk's hooves tells you he has some draft in him. BFH really. JAGSC

Jim said...

When Lisa was a kid, gaming and showing her Arab, the draft horse revival was getting underway here, and I loved the docile brutes. Belgins and Percherons predominated.

Somewhere in the distant past, somebody we knew kept a retired drafter, just for us kids to ride. Talk about your gentle giant...

SpeakerTweaker said...

One of my favorite horses at the ranch where The Little Girl has her lessons was a monster of a Clydesdale, nearly all black with a bit of a white blaze. Hercules (how apropos) always made a point to greet me when I came into the barn.

His owners finally acquired enough property to take him home. Great horse. Also, great horse.



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