10/07/2026
You think you’ve heard every way to tune a cutting horse. Then Punk Carter and Jeff Williams start talking about how they used to do it.
John Carter had the first one was a little horse called Rocky Joe Mack. Somebody else had started him. Daddy finished the job, hauling him to cuttings in the back of a pickup with a sideboard. The whole herd was Punk, Roy, Mama, and a chow dog. Mama balked. Roy quit. When the horse needed more charge, the dog went in the pen.
Jeff’s bright idea wasn’t any cheaper. He and Mike caught a bunch of wild pigs, put them on feed, and figured they’d work them in a solid round pen. The pigs never gained an ounce. A pig will make about two turns, then he’s mad and coming at the horse. Three hundred dollars in feed. Two days of work.
They worked goats too. One drove a nose sideways. Two pencils, no doctor, back to work.
That’s the good part of these stories. Not the hardship. The way they tell it.
New episode of The Total Podcast drops tomorrow.
