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| ...Continued... Here I'm running 8 dogs, the trail is only about 8 feet wide and she's standing in it. I had no choice, the dogs were pulling so I gave th command.........ON BY........ Thank god I had Outlaw upfront because to my surprise we were passing, he was passing. No sooner did the thought enter my head, and I was thinking.........Wow, well this isn't so bad, EVERYTHING CHANGED! Just as my wheel dogs were approaching the horse and most of the team was past, the horse rose up, pawed at the air and let out this incredibly loud deep, screeching noise. The dogs spun around like a rocket and now my leaders were standing behind him. I screamed NO! And the next thing I saw will stay with me for the rest of my life. The horse began bucking, kicking franticly and then stumping his feet in a circle. His rider had his reins drawn right up to his bit And was holding on to him tightly, I left the platform, ran towards my leaders to pull them back And as I stepped down there was the horse standing in the middle of my line stumping! I grabbed the leaders pulled them back, yelled at the women "let go of him", And the horse knocked me down. He then began jumping back And forth on each side of my line kicking as he did so. He hit me in the back of the head as he was jumping And then I saw him kick Kia across the trail. She looked like a sling shot And bouncing as far as her neck line would allow and then was propelled back to the main line. I yelled again "let go of the horse." You can see the fear in the horses eyes. He had no where to go, no way to get out of the situation. As I tried to get to my feet I saw him once again standing over my line stumping his feet only this time Mayhem was balled up underneath him And she began screaming. Suddenly Primus came out of no where And he And Havok immediately started jumping at the back of the horse. Mayhem was still balled up on the ground. It was at this point something snapped inside me. The fear was immediately replaced with anger And I leaned over while still laying on the ground And kicked the women holding the horse. She fell to the ground And the horse took off like a shot down the trail. As I watched him running I was afraid to look at the team. I remember thinking Becki get up, the team isn't snubbed. But I couldn't. I was absolutely unable to stand. My legs were shaking so badly that I couldn't get them under me. I knelt down and grabbed the team as they started screaming And pulling forward. Thats when I saw Quoia. There was such a knot of tug lines that shes was completely wrapped up in it. As the dogs pulled forward her head was being pulled and they were choking her. I grabbed the team threw them around a tree And pulled out my knife to cut the lines. I managed to unwrap her quickly And thats when I saw once Quoia's head was free it created tension on Kia And she was being pulled in half And was blue with her mouth open. I used the knife to cut the lines away from her And once free she started heading down the trail in the same direction as the horse, but also where the truck was. I yelled for her to come back And she stopped, starred at me for a moment ( I can only imagine what she was thinking) and then headed back towards me. I turned my focus back to the team, I knelt down again And thats when I heard the voice...." Are you all Ok" the women rider was still there, I didn't know what to say, she asked again " is everyone ok, can I help? " I looked up at her And just said "Please, Please just get away from me" She looked puzzled And I told her " Please just go, there is nothing you can do to help me And theres nothing nice that I can say to you, You should just go". I looked up towards the front of the line And Mayhem was still on the ground, as I went to her she began making a very odd noise, a cry type noise that in 4 years I had never heard her make. The women asked" is she ok" I didn't have an answer. " I don't know, I've never heard that noise before, she's still on the ground And I need to get back to the truck.......if we can get back to the truck". I looked up And that when I saw them, There was the women's husband, he had caught the horse And dismounted his own, he was heading straight towards us with both horses on each side of him. I yelled. " Oh my god, what are you people doing." I looked at the women And told her to get away from us, And stop him. She ran down the trail and the dogs started screaming. I quickly snubbed them And wait for what felt like a life time. I pulled myself together, settled down And eventually got back on the rig. Still shaking like a leaf, I pulled the snubbed line and remember thinking........... Please let them all be ok. I had no idea who else had been kicked or who was hurt. As the snub line sprung free the entire team leaped forward And we headed back to the tuck. To my surprise we all made it back the 5 miles to the truck. |