Very nice animal Bill, while I am not a big paint fan - he looks perfect standing next to you. Black on white, that would be piebald to me.
You both look like your ready to shoot that scene in Wild Bill Hickock where he and (is it Whistler riding a paint horse?) charge at each other with rifle and pistols blazing - I will pay to see you get shot off the back (that would be a back flip) of the that horse!
, and submit you for the AARP athlete of the year if you survive!
In Tim McCoy's (one of the original big 4) autobiography he describes the stunt men of his day (1920's) who were basically out of work cowboys taking falls off of a horse. If you watch those movies they have some spectacular wrecks, much better than today's wimpy pull back on the reins and fall to the side. The reason for this is they simply used trip wires on the horse. He said many times this would break the horses leg and they'd simply shoot the horse. But horses were so cheap it was not a problem. So were the cowboys who did the stunt. They would do it for $50 a fall, which was huge money for those day's. If they were busted up they paid their own medical bills and the studio just offered someone else $50.
Congratulations on your purchase, there is something about a horse that is special.
One of the best modern falls I have seen is in the movie Geronimo with Matt Damon where a charging Indian shooting an old dragoon is shot off of his horse by lieutenant Gatewood. Watch it, that animal roles completely over him, I bet they didn't do a second take on that one.