AL 32AB -48- Tape B M: of talking about..... yell, they're going to tear down to build the new um..... J: Coliseum ? M: That coliseum or whatever it's called. Uh they actually housed horses in those days. Big, fat mean-tempered, uh work horses. Big things. And had a .... where the um concrete parking area that used to be a temporary building uh there was a corral, riding corral, and.- riding lessons. You learned how to ride. You were told to march around and ride around and how to mount and how to tighten up the saddle and how to put the bit in the horse's mouth without gettin)your fingers bitten, all the nice little things you're supposed to know. And then this uh..... /aptain..... cao-N think of his name now, came back after the ar as a colonel. He was a /aptain at that time and he had his own personal mount, a beautiful horse. He'd be out there, ynow and the horse would be prancing along looY-1 yM and i ...... .We'd be on these big, cloddy, ugly animals and he would explain what he wanted to do, he would be walking around the corral, horse oJ o-- walk in a line and he wanted the lead horse on command, to gallop around and then to the rear of the line and stop and then next command was the next one and do this \' Those horses would never go around the periphery They wanted to cut diagonally right straight across the corral and he gave the command and it was my turn and I..... kicked my heels in the horses belly/y know let's go. And he started to cut across diagonally and of course I knew I wasn't the first guy to do this and all of'em wanti do that and everybody that.... where the horse had taken the bit and gotten away with it by just going right straight across instead