Of a horse: To leap vertically from the ground, drawing the feet together like a deer, and arching the back.
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... my grandmother got kicked by a cow once. ... Yeah she was ah she was working um with the cows and she was milking them and one of them started being stupid and ah (laughs) so she decided- well it sort of like- like I want to say bucking, but that's what horses do. Um just like kind of like getting pissed off and ah my grandmother just stabbed it 'cause it was like it was kicking her and stuff. |
Of a horse: To leap vertically from the ground, drawing the feet together like a deer, and arching the back. (e.g., to force a rider off) |
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Interviewer: So you just ride him around in your fields? Speaker: Mm-hm. Pretty much. Interviewer: That's funny, nice, did you ever fall off? Speaker: He bucked me once, like the only time. Interviewer: What? Speaker: I think he was spooked by something but other than that, no, he was a really calm horse. Like, I'd put my niece on it and she was like two at-the-time, well with me, not by herself. |
Of a horse: To leap vertically from the ground, drawing the feet together like a deer, and arching the back. (e.g., to force a rider off) |
Interviewer: Oh. What happened that time that he bucked you? Speaker: Oh, I'm not sure, something just spooked him though, and I just fell off. Interviewer: Did you go flying? Speaker: No, I didn't go flying, like he- he's too old to buck that vigorously. |
Of a horse: To leap vertically from the ground, drawing the feet together like a deer, and arching the back. (e.g., to force a rider off) |
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Speaker: But on ground you have to roll. ... So that you don't hurt anything, you have to keep going with the speed until you actually slow yourself down. So I rolled, when I got bucked off the horse (laughs) and nothing was hurt, I just had a h-- really huge bruise on my leg but I got back on him and I've seen that a lot with our horseback riding team. |
Of a horse: To leap vertically from the ground, drawing the feet together like a deer, and arching the back. (e.g., to force a rider off) |
(laughs) and nothing was hurt, I just had a h-- really huge bruise on my leg but I got back on him and I've seen that a lot with our horseback riding team. ... Where people have been- not actually that much, about three people. Three people have been bucked off a horse. And the biggest thing is that you have to get back on the horse. They haven't and I feel really bad for them because I- I got bucked off and I didn't want to get back on him but (laughs). ... Yeah (laughs), he's my horse. ... I love him. |
Of a horse: To leap vertically from the ground, drawing the feet together like a deer, and arching the back. (e.g., to force a rider off) |
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I sat down and I had the reigns in my hands (laughs)- ... Still and I'm like I didn't drop them. The pony kind of just looked at me like what are you doing (laughs)? ... Yeah, pretty wild. But I still get on. I've been bucked off like three times. ... Um, I've been reared up on. I've slipped underneath a horse a couple of months ago. Um, I almost got kicked in the head. This is just like a couple months ago, a couple years ago. This is recent. |
Of a horse: To leap vertically from the ground, drawing the feet together like a deer, and arching the back. (e.g., to force a rider off) |
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Speaker: And ah, I put the saddle on the horse, played around with it a little bit, petted it up got to know it, and ah got out on the road leaving the farm, it kind of didn't want to leave, so it bucked couple of times, then it was perfect. And I had that horse for years and years and years and years. |
Of a horse: To leap vertically from the ground, drawing the feet together like a deer, and arching the back. (e.g., to force a rider off) |
