I’ve consigned my oldest horse to a ranch horse sale in October. It’s an invitation only sale for specifically ranch horses. He’s 17 years old nowadays and I figure he’s got a ton of monetary value still but as his years go on that value drops. I don’t want to be the one to bury him someday and he could touch someone else’s kids what to look for in a horse. My kids ride him some but they’ve got others. I will miss him because I don’t have another horse as capable as Hamster yet. I’ve rode many horses and he ranks in the top 2 but I suppose I gotta go work on the others cuz he’s getting old. He’s fought many cattle battles with me and drug who knows how many pounds of beef. He’s abnormally large for his pedigree and has athletic ability that usually isn’t found in a horse his size. He stands 16.2 hands tall at his wither. He weighs 1400 pounds. He can stop anything I can rope. I’ve ridden him since he was 3. He was ate up with cow naturally. I remember calling my wife the first time I was driving a few sick yearlings to the doctoring pen on him. He was 3 and I maybe had 10 rides on him and he was watching everyone of em. I told her to come hide around the corner of the barn and watch this. One of them calves would turn around and wanna go back to the herd and Hamster would get low and ready. When he was 4 I was doctoring many trader cows on him. Foot rots mainly and he just craved to put the brakes on one I’d rope. Anyhow the sale is in two weeks. I got a few videos of him workin a steer today while we were sorting and check weighing steers that we will ship soon. The ol man is 17 years old but still knows how to get fancy holding a steer. Man time flies. Watching 3 daughters grow and this horse and a couple dogs. Where the hell did the years go!
