MFM would be proud -- update on stolen horse and his owner

[magical thyme]

I've been watching the horse forums all week looking for word on the condition of the horse that was stolen from his trail riding owner and run for 45 minutes through rough desert terrain before the cops caught up with him and launched into 2 minutes of police brutality.

The good news is neither horse nor owner appear to have suffered serious injuries; both are fortunate for that given the circumstances.

The question was how did he managed to get the horse away from its owner? Answer: MFM must be laughing somewhere...

The 50 year old owner was out trail riding and left his horse ground tied while he stopped for a swim. Saw the thief and yelled for him to not take his horse. Chased after the thief, stopping only long enough to put on his red underpants, boots and cowboy hat.

Proceeded to chase him shirtless and pantless (and sockless w/wet feet in cowboy boots --ouch!) through the desert. At some point, got close enough that he was going to try to stop him, when some deputies saw him and thought he was the thief. They got him on the ground and cuffed him before he was able to explain that he was chasing a 30-something who'd stolen his horse.

The consensus in my horse world is 1. we love that horse, 2. we wish thief had stolen a barn sour horse that bucked him to the treetops, and 3. obviously the cops shouldn't have beaten him up (although we wouldn't have blamed the owner if he had.).

http://deepcreekhotsprings.net/dchs/forum/read.php?1,24897,24904#msg-24904

[jakeXT]

1. How did they manage to not beat up the owner? /nt

[In_The_Wind]

2. I agree with you 100%!

[KMOD]

3. stopping only long enough to put on his red underpants, boots and cowboy hat.

any pictures of this?

[magical thyme]

8. only stuck in my brain...

and I can't view them for long before I'm

[irisblue]

4. no pants horse chase

I do miss MFM

[Boudica the Lyoness]

5. I was really impressed with that horse.

He stayed with them when they were fighting on the ground like a good un.

I have a couple of BLM mustangs and they only will let me touch them. I can't ride now (on the injured list) but I wonder if I had ever managed to ride them, what they would do if someone else tried to get on them. It would not have been pretty.

[marzipanni]

6. The horse was the only truly sane one,

calmly observing the humans acting like idiots.

[cwydro]

7. Agree.

The horse actually seemed disturbed by the beating.

Horses are wonderful animals.

[magical thyme]

10. agreed.

very, very lovely horse.

[magical thyme]

9. my very, very sensitive arab mare

would have given the thief a riding lesson that, if he survived, he wouldn't soon forget, unless he ended up with amnesia. She can bronc with the best of them, and it wouldn't have taken her very long to turn him into a human cannonball with direct impact on the mountain boulders leaving broken back or neck or head, or some combination of broken bones. She knows no mercy and, having grown up beaten up daily by a herd of aunts who stood in a circle around her biting and kicking her trying to instill some manners, doesn't realize her own strength. She just scrinches up her eyes and goes at it -- whatever it is -- full tilt. And she is a very powerful and athletic little girl

I'm just teaching my morgan mare ground lessons. She's been a pasture ornament since birth and arrived barely leading, usually running over whoever is tasked with holding the end of the lead rope But so far she is living up to the morgan reputation of smarts, trainability and curiosity that wins out over fear. So she may well have put up with the jerk jerking on her mouth and booting her in the ribs. Hard to say at this point...

Of course, I wouldn't be able to trust either of them ground tied, so there is that

[Boudica the Lyoness]

11. I owned Morgans for about 25 - 30 years.

I love them. My last one died in 2009 and I miss him so much. I just pulled out his papers - Orcland Bold Fox was his gt granddad. His sire was a working cattle horse and kept as a stallion all his life. My old boy inherited his sensible attitude.

One of my mustangs has a huge fear of people and will attack them if he's cornered. Lucky for me he lives on rocky hard ground and never has to be trimmed.

Your Arab mare sounds like a regular little pistol.

I couldn't imagine my life without horses in it.

[magical thyme]

12. I'm just sorry I didn't get a morgan about 30 years ago...

don't know what I was thinking.

Maizie and Dahli will corner you and try to pull your clothes off if they think you have treats in your pocket. Didn't take me long to spoil them, lol.

Good thing your mustang has self-trimming feet! I'm my own trimmer...definitely kept 'easy to trim' in mind when I was looking. My ground is very soft...

Orcland Bold Fox sounded familiar, so I just looked him up. I think I've seen him on some pedigrees! Interesting foundation breeding...lippitt x gov.
http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/orcland+bold+fox