Blaze at a homecoming

Usage examples of bonfire.

When the weather turned bad, Jimmy kept him in the stall and started breaking Bonfire to bridle and harness.

For weeks Jimmy tied Bonfire in his stall or at the paddock fence for a few minutes each day, teaching the colt to stand tied and to respect the rope holding him.

Jimmy put a light bridle and bit on Bonfire and the colt did nothing but play with the bit while he moved about his stall.

They taught Bonfire to work on the longe, encircling them at the end of the long rope.

And for many hours each day, he stood beside him while Bonfire grazed in the infield of the track.

He walked Bonfire up and down the wooden loading ramp, getting him used to entering and leaving a van, which would be so much a part of his racing life.

And he walked him in and out of other sheds, now empty except for those of Miss Elsie, because Bonfire must get used to strange stalls and barns.

Tom brought the colt in from pulling the cart about the track, he would work over him the very same way as he would have done had Bonfire had a strenuous workout or race.

Tom, and he turned to Bonfire for comfort, spending every minute of the day with him and keeping busy.

He had a job here, and the best he could do was to teach Bonfire his lessons so well that Jimmy would have less to do when he returned to Coronet.

While Tom walked to the side of the cart as Bonfire pulled it around the track, he was thinking about Jimmy and wondering what was happening at Bedford.

Jimmy came to the stables he let Tom do all the work with the colt, and was content to tell him what to do with Bonfire and to watch them.

He said nothing to Jimmy, and spoke only to Bonfire through the long lines.

George were still in front of the shed when Tom brought Bonfire off the track.

And when he knew he might be pocketed by them, he pulled Bonfire out and made his drive for the wire.