Miles City Bucking Horse Sale: The Sale
The real action in the Miles City Bucking Horse Sale is, of course, the sale. There were over seventy broncs bucked that day, ranging from experienced buckers who had seen the NFR, to outlaw saddle horses looking for a new career more fitting of their talents. The majority were somewhere in the middle, youngish and/or inexperienced broncs.
For me the broncs that are the most fun to shoot are the big time pros, like Grated Coconut and the like, and the rank young untested broncs. Experienced broncs will come out and buck rhythmically, gracefully, beautifully really!
Inexperienced broncs, on the other hand, pull things like this:
And occasionally they do things like this:
I looked at this photo probably two dozen or more times while picking it out for the blog and editing it, but it wasn't until I was totally done editing it that I realized that the horse wasn't wearing a bucking strap. Show 'em how its done Pali!
The young and the rank: There was also a handful of futurity broncs bucked like this handsome "born to buck" colt.
The one thing that has really struck me about broncs, both the young rank horses and the tried and true pros is actually how they're the same:
They're athletes. Plain and simple.
Coming up: The BHS match bronc riding! Friesian colts! And (it's that time again)... HELIX!
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