The color of this horse reminds me of Ole Topsy,a horse my granddad Coyd Wolfe owned when I was growing up.
He bought her from Old Dr Bowles. He brought wild horses from out west and broke them to harness. Our neighbor had another of the wild horses and they borrowed from each other so they could have a pair of horses to mow and rake hay. We also used Topsy to plow and skid wood. She did a lot of work on the farm. She was a great and gentle horse and even as a kid I could plow and other farm work with her. She didn't like anyone to ride her, maybe because she had been wild and never broke to a saddle. She lived to a sweet old age of 36 years old, and she was buried there on the farm. She was one of my greatest memories of growing up there at my grandparents farm in Richpatch.
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