Broad Brush euthanized at 26

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by ShadowRoll

This may be apocryphal, but I remember reading, a few years back, that he liked to travel so much that even after he was pensioned, they'd load him up in a trailer every once in a while and just take him for a ride. He was an admirable horse.

I read that too. I think it might have been in the Blood-Horse. He'd stick his head out the window like a dog does and get mighty angry if it had been awhile since he was taken for a ride.

[Kasept]

Small explained the back story of why Broad Brush came to like riding in the trailer.

[prudery]

He was all that he is given credit for here, and what an oldtimer might call a " hickory " horse--tough--and he meant business .

[DaTruth]

Originally Posted by prudery

He was all that he is given credit for here, and what an oldtimer might call a " hickory " horse--tough--and he meant business .

Toughness was a trait that Broad Brush passed on to many of his offspring. We got to see a lot of them during the few years that Small wintered at Fair Grounds.