Capitan Crunch

   Captain Crunch 

   By

     Mike Capron

I bought this horse because he was good looking and cheap. I took him home and I found out he didn’t like side by side two horse trailers, he nearly kicked the door off the hinges when I shut the door on the trailer.  He was easy to saddle and good to get on.  But it ended there. When I asked him to move off easily, he broke into a bailing , squalling fit. He was grinding his teeth and making so much noise that Anne came out of the kitchen in the house to see what all the commotion was. I can remember when I bought him as I named him after the popular song at the time call “Capitan Crunch In The Morning”. He was jumping and bucking without making it too hard to stay on. He wasn’t ever a hard bucker, but he was regular, every time you saddled him. I got used to his routine and it got a little humorous. He never bucked me off, and he got to be a pretty good pony, if you didn’t mind his little tantrum when you got on him.  Nobody offered to buy him though.  He wasn’t good enough to put up with his routine and not enough bucker to make him a rodeo prospect. So I guess I was stuck with him. I kept him for a year or so and believe it or not, he ate something in the horse pasture and died.  Anne said some things are for the best.