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those bad habits are not the horse’s fault. He says the owner must learn how to be a trainer. “If you do it right you’re gonna have a nice horse.”
Even with all the safety precautions riding can be dangerous as Moody knows himself. Once his horses got tangled in some yellow jackets and the horse in front of Moody kicked Moody in the leg. The horse’s hoof cut through Moody’s leather boot and fractured his shin bone.
“I learned the hard way the things I preach to people”. He says he also learned from watching the mistakes of other people. His father told him to learn to “keep your eyes and ears open and your mouth shut.”
Moody’s fleet of old horse transport trucks attests to the many years he has spent ferrying horses to and from fox hunts and various race tracks.
He tells the story of when he was 21 years old and a car skidded out in front of him on a mountain icy road with no guard rail. Moody had no where to go with his horse truck but into a bank. The truck stopped safely but then rolled over onto its side.
The horses inside fell together into one several thousand pound tangle of saddles, brides, hooves, and manes. One horse’s foot even poked through the side of the truck.
Forty to fifty people gathered around the young, very nervous Moody Aylor each giving advice on what to do. Moody kept his cool and chopped a hole in the side of the truck with a hatchet. Then he crawled into the truck on top of the horses and freed them one by one.
The many bystanders helped with ropes and they dragged all the horses to safety. No horse was injured except the one with its hoof poked through the side. It suffered a cut that healed in a few' weeks.
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