Posted by ellen harvey
on October 4, 2009, 10:56 pm
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I rode with Les Hilton, who was riding Ed at the time, in Griffith Park in the 1960s. I left Calif. in 1972 & he had Ed. put down before that, due to ringbone, sidebone, & navicular problems. He had another palomino he called Pumpkin, or Punkin, but he said that horse never had the smarts or talent of Ed.
One time I asked Les what was the first thing he looked at in a new horse. I thought he would say teeth, legs, feet, or conformation. No, he said he looked at the eyes to see if the horse had a 'kind' eye. I know what he meant, because there are some people who, if they were a horse, you wouldn't want to walk around the back of them.
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