Rock Finds His Stride While Scrappy Finds Some Chicken Bones

My muscles recovered enough from the mountain climb that I decided to ride Rock on the trails this morning.  Bombay's nose injury is almost healed, but now he has a big bite mark where the saddle would sit, so I left him at home.  About 1/3rd of the way through the ride, Rock picked up speed and actually walked with a purpose with his head held high, or at least as high as a Quarter Horse gets.