Among their amusements were several horse races, which I arranged, and in which Tall Bull and Powder Face were invariably the winners.

Tall Bull by this time had such a reputation as a running horse, that it was difficult to make a race for him.

I remember one however, in which he ran against a horse in Captain Spaulding's Company of the Second Cavalry.
This race was rather a novel affair.

I had made a bet that Tall Bull would beat the Second Cavalry horse around a one mile track, and, during the time that he was running, I would jump off and on the horse eight times.

I rode the horse bareback; seized his mane with my left hand, rested my right on his withers, and while he was going at full speed, I jumped to the ground, and sprang again upon his back, eight times in succession.