From Mugwump:
http://mugwumpchronicles.blogspot.com/2008/08/warp-drive.html
So here came Ted.I knew he could be good. He just needed new rules that made sense.I saddled him up, and longed him. I am pretty strict about horses bucking under saddle.If I don't tack them up, they can play, and buck and yahoo around.Once they have a saddle on, we're at work.Ted didn't agree with my plan. He took off, bucking and leaping, and dragging me around.I got out one of my secret weapons, my big long rope.It's fifty feet of thick, soft cotton rope.I have a loop tied at one end.I use it for a myriad of things, that day it was a bucking rope.I put it around Ted, and ran one end through the loop. It made a loose noose that I slid behind the saddle, so it hung around his flanks.I sent him out on the longe line, where of course, not appreciating the rope around his flanks, he proceeded to buck.I pulled the bucking rope tight. Ted went a little nuts.I hung on, the noose stayed tight, and I kept yanking on the longe line and the bucking rope.This is easier in a round pen, but I don't have one, so we just wrestled around the arena.As soon as Ted stopped to catch his breath, I loosened the noose.He took off again, threw out a kick, and I pulled the noose tight.Ted was fat, and smart. So he figured out that I was going to pull that noose tight every time he bucked. He really didn't want to work that hard, so he started to lope around nice and easy on the longe line.My first point was well taken, no bucking under saddle.
