Chapter Six
Taking Samson for a Ride
The training horse wasn’t a horse at all. It was a mechanical monster, bought in the late 1980’s from Don Bob’s Western Saloon and Booze Parlor in West Dewdrip, Texas, after the western bar craze dried up. Don Bob’s charged five dollars to any fool who wanted to mount the critter and get the ride of his or her life. But some riders fell hard and broke bones, heads and even one back. Thus the profitable, but dangerous entertainment device had been shut down and the bar closed, to be reopened later as a wine bar and then even later as a cigar den. The mechanical critter was sold at auction where the school was the successful bidder. Installed in the main barn, the horse was cleaned up and equipped with a wide range of new improvements. The entire mechan
