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Man had one gait — a flat out run — and he’d hit that stride and maintain it for a half-mile stretch with Steve standing in the stirrups and sawing on the reins. “Then I put a big spade bit in his mouth, one with a brass wheel, and I literally took half his tongue off before he quit.”
Now the two are partners, joining forces to herd cattle, separate and rope a calf for special attention or move a stubborn bull to a new pasture.
Other stock operations in the county rely on pick-up trucks or trail bikes to work cows. Leake believes that Red Man and his stablemates — Lonesome Levy, Yackii, Festus, Pig (“He’s slow”), Tarantula and Red — are far superior.
“You can’t move around in a truck like you can with a horse. Even with a motorbike, you can’t. You can’t drive through swamps, up rocky cliffs or into heavy underbrush. But you can do it on a horse.”
One of the pastures at Eldon Farms is 800 acres with a mountain in the middle of it. The “Jerford” cows (a Hereford/Jersey cross imported from the Bell Ranch along with the cow ponies) take off for the wilds any time they even think someone might be planning to b'"-'1 ‘■hem. “They head for
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