Ride with a purpose

摘要

At a recent cow horse show, my son loped off in the wrong lead. I haven't seen him do that since his early 4-H days. Of course, he changed leads in just one stride, but the damage had been done and the penalty assessed. When he rode out of the arena,he said that he committed a cardinal sin: forgetting that he was the pilot, and instead putting things on autopilot.