First Rides

I will spare the boring details of our early rides. Suffice it to say that Sam was very good from the start and I could tell that he had a brain (which came in handy later when he decided to act like he was incapable of rational thought). Right after I agreed to take him, he came down with a case of strangles and had to be quarantined on the farm for 8-10 weeks. I went to visit him every weekend during that time, so our work was very intermittent and low key.

Our first ride-