2025-11-04
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He's above my age in horse shears.
Brud Smith gently strokes the neck of a glossy chestnut horse.
The little white patch on its muzzle matches Brud's moustache.
On his head sits a wide-rimmed cowboy hat.
Turns well and he's real gentle.
But he's got lots of action when you go after a cow and have to turn them or whatever.
I'm on a ranch in rural southwest Montana in the United States.
A single dirt track led us to the entrance, marked, as most ranches are, by a timber archway.
There's a hand-painted sign welcoming us to the Smith Ranch,
in the distance in all directions and mountains.
What makes a good horse is if they can chase a cow and turn the cow,
they have to have a lot of horse sense too.
They say, if you've got a good horse, then you're smarter, whatever.
But then horses are pretty smart.
Yeah.
This is a medium-sized ranch, Broad tells me.
He owns the place, a real-life cowboy.
Each summer,
they saddle up the horses and drive their cattle into the mountains to graze the grass on higher ground.