... the winner (it wasn't her) but after, when the new queen had done her victory lap and the six or so pretty teenagers were preparing to leave the ring -- one horse just wadded up and started crowhopping, arching his back and jumping with all four feet in the air. The girl landed on her bottom and got up in one fluid motion, grabbing her horse by the reins and getting back on so fast it looked like...

.... He's an endurance horse. He's smart, and he's not an easy horse to ride, but I don't think he's difficult, either, once he figures out that he can't scare you off with some crowhopping and that yes, you really do mean it. On the trail, the biggest problem I ever had with him was getting after him enough to move forward during the first half of a ride and keeping him from just galloping for home ...

suicide

  Suicide   The day I had rued No one with me even food Screaming my plight Crying still no one in sight Black crow Hopping alone, dust of snow Poison from a hemlock tree Pain is over, my death I see. an escape from a hopeless man