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Eunice often tried to get Bud to let her make the video she had taken of him starting a colt available to the public, but he never wanted to do this. The modern way of training a young horse is so different from the way Bud did it that he didn’t want to start a confrontation with the “horse people.”  Bud and Eunice have always been concerned with the number of friends and acquaintances who have been injured with a horse. Some of these horses had been ridden for several years, and in their opinion, they still weren’t safe to ride.

Eunice had never been hurt by a horse, and she always rode horses that she really had no business being on. She had never ridden at all when she and Bud got married. They leased a ranch in Northern California for a while, and to make some extra money Bud would start colts for people or he would buy an unbroke colt, then sell it when it got to going good. Eunice never had any trouble with a colt Bud had ridden for three days as long as she did what he told her to do. In the heat of battle she remembered telling him, “You don’t care about me, you just don’t want me to spoil your darned old horse.” Bud responded with, “If you don’t spoil my darned old horse, you won’t get hurt!” As much as she hated to admit it, he was right.

People are always asking Bud for a “recipe” to work their livestock. This method of starting a colt is as close to a recipe as you will ever get from Bud.

This video shows Bud working three different horses. It is on 2 DVDs or on an external hard drive in .avi format.