Cody Crow gets candid when asked what he learned from drawing straws on horses out of the kill pen. His answer is straightforward: he's just not a very lucky man. Cody shares the story of a grey mare who had a habit of pile driving him into the ground and then refusing to let him catch her on the walk back, forcing him to make the long walk of shame home more times than he'd like to admit.But those experiences were anything but wasted. Learning to ride a bucking horse taught Cody to feel what a horse was thinking before it happened, a skill that's hard to develop any other way. It also taught him how to negotiate with a horse and change its thinking rather than simply overpowering it. The grey mare he couldn't catch ended up being one of his better teachers. A fun and honest look at the kind of experiences that build real horsemanship.