Sometimes a virus just keeps coming back.
And a Hokianga boy has become an internet sensation with more than 400,000 people watching a video of his antics as he whirls a taiaha and mounts his horse by hanging on to its neck, after the clip has gone viral on the net for a second time.
Snow O'Halloran, who lives at Taheke and goes to school in Kaikohe, was filmed by his father Marty as he learned to climb on to Blue, the family's extraordinarily placid horse.
Just six at the time the video was made, Snow was too small to get on Blue's back by the normal route. Instead the budding cowboy worked out that if he waited for Blue to put its head down to feed, he could wrap himself around the horse's neck and wait to be lifted up in a kind of equine elevator.
The clip also shows the young Snow demonstrating his taiaha skills and prowess at the pukana.