He adjusts the volume and the auction begins. The goats get purchased quickly and the main event begins . . . In the stockyard, horses and their riders line up to enter the ring. Some soothe their mount. Others get a feel for how the horse will ride once in the ring.
Many sellers pay others to ride their horses in the ring to demonstrate how the horse handles.
At his day job, Mr. Keeney lays conduit for telephone lines. On weekends, he and his father horse trade. But it's a long haul out there. The owner said this horse doesn't smoke or have any other bad habits. A bidding battle breaks out.