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best of the bunch, everybody says so.” And Steve has stories to prove it. “Red Man will run over a cow, literally knock ’um down. We had 20t), 200 head take off down the road. I dropped Red Man's reins and he took off, running on the shoulder alongside to get up in front and head them off. There was a cow in the way. He bumped that cow, bumped her again, and she wouldn’t move over. He bumped her a third time, sent her into the calf and they both tumbled. Red Man just leaped over them and then headed off the leaders (of the herd).”

Clearing a cow and calf presented no problems to the big chestnut. He’s jumped straight up a threefoot

embankment, taking off flatfooted from a washed out creek bed, sailed over fourand-a-half foot rail fences, coops and gates — all with a heavy roping saddle and 210 pounds of Steve Leake on his back.

Laughing, Steve recalled how he’d threatened to put on cowboy boots, chaps and Stetson and jump circles around the fancy English riders at the point-to-point

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