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Post by tfrancis on Mar 20, 2007 16:13:20 GMT -5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YddnsXsW9KcThis is old footage from the steel pier and it's high diving horses. They stopped in 1978 when the steel pier was sold. Sonora Webster Carver was one of the original riders.
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Post by swissgrl on Mar 20, 2007 18:32:14 GMT -5
ohhhh geez, that is freaky scary looking!!!!
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Post by atticus on Mar 20, 2007 19:36:40 GMT -5
Didn't Black Beauty Ranch rescue all their horses??
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Post by tfrancis on Mar 21, 2007 0:41:28 GMT -5
from what I understand they rescued the last two, a mare and a gelding. The gelding ended up staying with someone else and the mare went to the ranch where she later had a foal. I am guessing she may have been breed at the ranch.
Sonora had retired by then and moved to New Orleans with Al. She just died in 2003 at the age of 99. Most of her dives happened after she became blind due to a diving accident. If I remeber correctly, the dives were originally form 65 feet, then lowered to 40 feet and eventually 30 feet.
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Post by lilypondfarm on Jun 19, 2007 16:22:58 GMT -5
Yikes - that looks super scary!!!!  |
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Post by dustyboots on Jun 21, 2007 10:43:35 GMT -5
YIKES!!!
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Post by sassiedogtk on Jun 21, 2007 12:49:59 GMT -5
There is a movie about her called "Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken". I say it years ago but I did not know that it was a true story.
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Post by April on Jun 21, 2007 14:54:11 GMT -5
I love that movie! I used to watch it all the time when I was little.
That is some scary stuff though, I'm glad they don't do it anymore.
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