If we were the betting types, we likely would have put money on the idea that Ranger had been saddled before. A gentle, older horse who doesn’t balk much at the flag touching him or get squirmy in the cinch area tells a story, wordless as it is. Yet even still, we dot our “i“s and cross our “t“s here, and Ranger has been running through our groundwork checklist from the beginning as though he was green as summer grass.
That being said, when it did come time to cinch him up, Ranger was more prepared than ever to do something that he’s likely done before. You can see just exactly how much the process phased him in the video below. If anything, he was likely unaccustomed to a back cinch, but took the whole thing in stride.
