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{SPEAKER name="Unknown Speaker"} What qualities do you look for in breeding a bucking horse?

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"} Well, look for a horse with good size and one that's real athletic, you know. By crossing, uh, crossing a bigger horse with a thoroughbred...we all know how athletic a thoroughbred is. But then, I've always said that a bucking horse is kind of a freak of nature too.

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{SPEAKER name="Unknown Speaker"} Well, let me just, let me just butt in, if I can?


{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"} Yeah, sure.

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{SPEAKER name="Unknown Speaker"} In terms of the thoroughbred, of course, the legs are very, very thin.

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"} Mmh-hmm [[affirmative]]

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{SPEAKER name="Unknown Speaker"} In terms of the bucking horse, I think, you know, the legs have to be a lot sturdier, in most cases, wouldn't they?

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"} Well, by crossing the two, see, you get a heavier leg, you get a heavier bone from your big draft horse. But he's got enough thoroughbred that naturally he'll be a little more active.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"} There was one family in Montana that bred bucking horses and still does, and they started out about 25 years ago. Well, they had bucking horses before that.
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But they bought a shire stallion that weighed seventeen hundred pounds, so it was unmanageable. It had terrible traits, you know, he just fought and kicked and struck and everything, and they crossed him on all kinds of range mares and they got...then he died real early, and then they got a horse called Prince from him.
[00:06:03] And uh, Major [[?]], I forgot the other names of them, but they, they passed them traits on. And when the duke horses from that shire stallion, like Major Reno was the bucking horse a year or some, a few, 20 years ago, 15.
[00:06:19] Why, uh, he was from that breed. And they sure was tough horses and you had to be awful careful with them in the chute or everywhere. They just...it was was kind of dangerous and they was so big and strong. And bucks are hard...A lot of guys didn't like to go to the rodeos where they was at because they didn't have much chance of riding them.
[00:06:39]They sure had that strength in them that...to fight you as well as buck.

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{SPEAKER name="Unknown Speaker"}Question over there? Your side, yes?