Someone’s got to be driving ahead of him, setting up his next lodging. This guy is not going to sleep on the ground or go showerless. I’ve looked filthier after a 30 minute flat lesson. He does not even have a mess kit for cooking.
If he makes it to Nevada, east Oregon or far north California I know some cowboys who will go nuclear. A big if for those poor animals.
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https://www.instagram.com/stories/2raw2ride/3100022615593551690/
THIS. Hell, even taking pictures in N TX I get filthy because of wind blowing. You’re telling me ole Cyril isn’t covered in West TX dirt??
Also I feel like he’d be weighing less if he was only eating Cliff Bars & riding 20 miles daily. Maybe I should try that diet.
How so, if you can share. How are their animal and land ethic different. Or are they simply more willing to put themselves out there and confront and defend the right of the animal and preservation of the land and western “cowboy” culture and ethic
I am surprised that so many are supporting him, perhaps as a way to help the horse along. Perhaps they sadly realize that only keeps the horse(s) doing what is wrong.
Really a difficult position for an animal lover to be put in.
On the one video where he is opening the silo door – I do not consider myself tough at all, but my hands are a lot more weathered than his. And, as someone mentioned, his hands are so clean. A moment in time – but while scrounging around in feed? His hands do not look like someone who has spent significant time around horses doing horse stuff.
Where were his horses while he was in the tent during the rain?
But it is interesting that suddenly he is showing evidence of feeding his horses. He wasn’t doing that before. So maybe the pressure had some results.
Well they’d give him hell for treating horses, your working partners, like that.
Oooh, call National Geographic.
Thought the article had a very fair summary. And the TT clips let doofus show his true colors – “it’s all about me, not the horse(s)”.
The article does not seem to have had personal contact with the horse, though, just a phone interview.
A few things slipped - yes, the “confidential” source DOH; “road horse” should have been “rode horse”; and the vet remarks who had never seen the horse. I’m guessing the actual vet isn’t talking on the record.
And – “all the vets” according to Knucklehead, claiming he stops “every two weeks” … big miss on the fallacy that he’s only been out 4 weeks, so at most 2 vet exams.
If this guy really wants to calm down the criticism, let an experienced long rider thoroughly examine the horse, including saddle pressure and feet and so forth, and give their assessment. Let a vet do the same, and a farrier. Publish it all. If there are any deficiencies, what is he doing about it? Just share that info. Now is the time to do it, the horse isn’t likely to look better later on.
Well, I am glad to hear that he has a support system. At least for the sake of the horses.
(Though clearly his support system kind of sucks.)
So, the long rider who opined that doofus is ‘figuring it out as he goes’ seems to be right on …
And in my life experience, that means that there is no way he makes this 100 day goal. And that is going to change things for him. And already has – he can do enough math to figure out he’s falling behind and time will be very hard to make up if he actually tries to ride the entire distance.
To do something this profoundly technical, at the mercy of random events and weather, and make a firm deadline needs meticulous planning. And preparation. With plenty of failsafes and extra time for the random things.
He himself is indicating that he hasn’t done that planning & preparation.
But he also seems to see himself on a no-room-for-failure trajectory. To make the time to Seattle there will have to be a LOT of trailering, I’m thinking. With staged media to make it look like he rode the entire way. And - stealth to hide the fact that he didn’t.
Such a situation is not all bad! 
The horses don’t have to walk the entire way. And later on, other people will have the evidence to contradict his claims. An expose’ will be coming at some point, either during or after the ride. If there is a Netflix or other documentary, the narrative is about the things people try to stage on social media without actually doing what is claimed.
If I were someone with the means to track him throughout the ride and suss this out I would wait until the end to reveal my findings. Not rile up the internet during the ride. Given there is no stopping this dude, better to watch and make sure the horses are managing ok, and pull the rug out with the evidence of fakery after the guy has declared himself done and off the trail.
I notice that his videos are all him-him-him. The horses are barely shown in the background at all.
And his own videos portrays him in an almost cartoonish way. With the chaps and spurs, the goofy self-narration, he’s portraying a caricature of what he is claming to do. It’s an odd approach and maybe more self-revealing than he intends.
For those that don’t have Instagram… here’s a screenshot of the horse tied by the reins to a forklift at a feed store. 
Yeesh at least it’s the non-forked end, I had visions.
From his insta, fwiw …
So maybe his vision quest will turn out to be a 100 day ride from Texas to… another part of Texas.
Daily Beast article keeps kicking me out 
Probably a Good Thing, as watching or reading about Cereal makes my brain hurt.
Just tell me:
Was it scathing? Praisefilled? Neutral?
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrKXxWWLpIS/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
Saw this on Instagram and it made me think of this thread.
The side comments alone are hysterical.
If it was supposed to roll clip, it didn’t, was just a single shot. But all good it’s a great meme!
Thing started running & I heard it! omg this gram-er nailed it …
Someone who time manages better than me, write up a transcript for anyone who can’t listen to it … omg. And we all know it’s funny because it is SPOT ON.
It was pretty balanced. I hadn’t heard of him until I read the Daily Beast article. I came here and you guys didn’t let me down - I knew there would be a thread on it already!
Saw this last night & it broke my heart:
https://www.tiktok.com/@the_mare_stare/video/7232065558437432619
Obviously we all knew the horse has been NQR, but he’s gotten so much more lame to the point that I’d find it hard to find any denier. That’s not “being gaited”. I’m so sorry for both of these animals.
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