C'mon Nicole, stick and 'Easy Boys' in there somewhere, will ya'?
I hope you did not put him away wet.... :-) Funny story: I used that expression (ridden hard, put away wet) in from of my S-I-L one day and she took great offense. ?? After quizzing her about it, she thought it was a negative sexual reference to human females. Ah. So I explained that it has absolutely nothing to do with humans or any sexual reference, it is in reference to working a horse hard, until it lathers (I believe horses are the only furred animals that actually sweat) and then putting said horse in the barn immediately. This leaves the horse much worse for the task, all matted and quite poor looking. The expression is of course used today to generally refer to anything abused and the worse for it ('That car looks like it was rid hard and put up wet' for example means the car is quite tired and rough looking). She responded that she still did not like the expression..... and I suggested how much less she would like it if someone applied it to her on a 'bad hair day' for example.
Brian
Mr. Max is smiling! I rode em hard!