Best Adventurehorse Poems
So I look back for 60 years to my old bay horse star...
Hard mouthed, a galloper just the thing,
at 5 what speed and power....
My chestnut pony stallion was a pig rooter with the best,...
Got dumped when I relaxed a bit, to ride him was my test....
Bronco Don loved a spirited horse he said ...
He taught me riding some...
Don't let em bloody drop their head ,...
hang on, with the horse be one!...
You feed a horse some chaff and oats ...
Its spirit lifts with power...
City folk say don't be a goat ...
Coil springs the pigroot hour....
Dons droving horses always got a feed...
Of chaff and oats for strength ...
Horses ridden every day would need...
quart of oats, strong horses meant....
Try it if you ride very well.....Don Johnson..
So you would saddle this springy horse and take it for a lead at the canter,
it would buck with the saddle and get the hoops out of it for the days work.
Then you would tighten the girth strap and mount a lively horse.
Never underestimate a lively horse.....Don Johnson :)
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NED KELLY AT GLENROWEN
So boy keep your mouth shut don't tell em what i'm doing...
For its jail for me as you will see if you talk it will be my ruin..
The Kelly friends swapped horses when the gang
hid in their field...
The worn out nags were fed with bags,
nosebag chaff and oats a meal...
Mirth and Music and some more joined Minnie
for a rest ...
They needed to be strong to carry the men a
galloping to the west...
Fresh horses at Glenrowen to gallop and get away...
Joe Byrne was dead, heartbroken Ned, would stay
to make em pay!...
Dan and Steve rode north, black Minnie,
Dan rode her....
Steve Hart’s horse was game of course,
of racing blood so rare....
Sydney then the Waler boat, with horses put to sea...
To India with remount horses, from Australia they were free ...
Don Johnson
The 2 Missing Kelly Gang horses ..
I say 2 mounts were found belonging to the Kelly Gang
of 1880 after the Glenrowen stoush, Mirth and Music, only two? What about Minnie the black
Race mare taken from Jerilderie during the bank holdup 1879.
We know the other two men Dan Kelly and Steve Hart
would have wanted thoroughbred horses also to outrun the following police, very important
if you were being chased by the traps in those days. In Ned Kelly a short life by Ian Jones
A very interesting book, it tells of the robbery of the bank at Jerilderie, while there
7-10th February 1879, Steve Hart took a black race mare called Minnie when asked to by
Ned Kelly. She was kept by Kelly friends till Steve Hart came and took her away a year
later in 1880. Dan Kelly was riding her at Glenrowen in 1880.
Having been a Jockey myself and having chased ordinary horses with a race horse I know you
can chase down horses and yard them easily on a quicker mount
My money is on a fast mare.
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My heart pounds against my chest,
But I'll keep going I'll never rest.
Until the thieves are all shot down,
They'll never steal The Gypsy Crown.
My mare rides forward, I'll not look back,
Only cheese and bread I did pack.
Days may pass, but I'll not frown,
They'll never steal The Gypsy Crown.
I travel through thickmist and fog,
My only companiions, a horse and dog.
A lonely ride, the trail to town,
They'll never steal The Gypsy Crown.
I hear them coming, but I'll not wait,
The crown will be saved, it's not too late.
Maybe my luck will come around,
They'll never steal The Gypsy Crown.
Into a clearing; dog, horse and me,
Today is the day I make history.
I throw it in the river, I watch as it drowns,
They'll never steal The Gypsy Crown.
I'll not tell you, I'll take the secret with my death,
But I'll give you a warning with my last breathe.
Do not search, It will not be found,
You'll never steal The Gypsy Crown