"LAST OF THE CLAN" "How is one meant to keep up?" "One big lunatic." "Leave it be!" "Well then!" "A bit to the left, hey?" "Where you off to!" "?" "Get stuck in, no fear!" "Left, you comedian!" "Slowly!" "Damn!" "Don't fool around!" "Slowly!" "Slowly!" "It's lasted thirty-five years." "It was handed on." "In the Køíž family." "Of all the Køíž family, I the eldest, have stayed with horses." "Make a good horse out of a bad one." "A Køíž speciality." "I have the horsey relationship, the horses smell me, perhaps I do them, I have the knack." "When lads here take the reins horses rear up on their back legs." "I don't even need the reins, I just talk to them and the horse walks the way I need him to." "Alan, here, I saved once from the knackers yard and put him in one piece, if he went to the abattoir now" "I'm not sure they wouldn't need to take me there too." "He's a small piece but he is equal to a pair sometimes." "There were logs where you couldn't hitch up two horses, so, I set him up on his own and he pulled to the last moment, ten times, fifteen times, always with the same power." "We came to an agreement on this and to destroy him just..." "that would be a cardinal sin." "It would be a sin to harm him." "Even if I am rude to him sometime or even hit him, though I stroke him three times after." "If a horse is being good one needs to treat him well, when he misbehaves you need to handle him a bit differently." "It's like with people, see." "Twice or three times he gets a lousy lunchtime service and the horse starts lacking zest for work, begins to get nervous, when he is regularly used to getting what he does he is less of a problem." "Like with a human." "When he is taught something on a regular basis, when there is a time to begin and a set time to finish then it should be adhered to." "With this animal it's the same." "When I have one too many and come a bit late and whatever state I'm in I ask in the first place:" "Did the horses get theirs?" "If someone says they don't know it's an automatic response, bluster and no retrospection." "Or the other way round." "As the horse works for me, not me for him." "The harness has to be just right for the horse, like a shoe-fit, one has to be able to walk, not to get a sore, and the fancy bits have to be there for it to look nice." "When a person gets togged up he looks like a human and when he doesn't bother looks like a tramp." "The same with a horse." "When he gets a proper harness then he looks like a proper horse and when he doesn't he looks like a vagrant." "When doing something, might as well do it properly for it to have the right feel, the way it should be." "Bit of affection towards the animal..." "A horse is really sometimes more sincere than a human, more sensible." "Off we go!" "Stop it!" "Now then!" "Damn it, you wastrel!" "Right!" "Hiyah!" "Well now!" "Left!" "Wait a mo, will you?" "Alan, left, you comedian!" "Slowly!" "Where are you off to?" "No harm done, lad." "Shall we get up, Your Honour?" "You look great." "Ugh." "One great beauty." "It's behind you." "Nothing is torn, so no harm done." "A fine clot!" "Shall we move, right?" "Put your leg there..." "Someone has to do it in these mountains, or with these horses." "But with mechanisation it is slowly taking a back seat and all those who had horses changed them for cars, even my uncle." "I'm the only one from so many Køíž's who has stayed with horses." "Three lads used to come with me but ran away from it, one to a car, one to a tractor, and such mechanised beasts interest them more than horses." "If I didn't hang on to that horse tail I would..." "I suppose I can't do without it." "In our family the tradition is that when a new horse comes along a proper big slice of salted bread is given to him, and he gets used to it and becomes part of the family." "He is a member of the family." "I love nature and I love horses, basically that's my whole life, my purpose in life, thirty-five years I work with horses, from being a child - capable of running away from school when seeing a pair of beautiful horses going down the road," "ran away in Pardubice once like that." "Love of a lovely horse, the other I can't say." "Or maybe I can?" "If a beautiful woman, with a lovely bit of leg, hmm, then comes a gorgeous horse and also has a lovely leg," "I love it and will stick to it until I die."