Re: Running Martingales/Bill Munson

[DVeritas@aol.com]

    The horse was RAGIN 1284 and was owned by Bonny Croft Stables, Boone, Iowa
where Doc went to work in 1940 for Garth Knox (later Mrs. Buchanan).  She had
obtained the stallion from Selby's in Ohio.  Doc started the horse and one
afternoon while on an outing with some fellow students from Iowa State, he and
a friend decided to swim their horses.
    (And the following was related to me one morning around 3:00 while Bill
and I watched "westerns",  and he filled me in about the "early days".)  He
told me that Ragin was the first horse he ever came across who panicked in the
water to the point where he drowned...and while trying to save him, Ragin just
about kicked Doc to death.  That night while we talked, Bill (then 75 years
old) wiped his tears and told me his heart still ached.
Ragin was by *Mirage out of *Indaia.
    I know horses drown, and I know horses drown more easily when constricted
by martingales, but, Doc did not tell me that was why Ragin was lost.

Frank.