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Remember it was a Spanish Mustang not a blm type
mustang.

--- heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I'm not quite for sure...but I came across a
> website that had the story
> > of Hidalgo.  Said that this horse was a mustang,
> and had been in pony
> > express type races and so on, and won them
> constantly, and to make a
> > long story short apparently there had been a bet
> made that this horse
> > could not compete against the fine arabians of the
> egyptian king.  He
> > took the bet and the horse ended up winning this
> horendous race of that
> > time- by days.  When he came back to America they
> turned the horse with
> > herds of mares trying to get the stamina.  Said
> that the horse had came
> > from a certain indian tribe.  Anyway that's the
> jist of the history I
> > got from the website.  It was a family that raised
> mustangs for
> > endurance it's their cover story.
> Actually, there is considerable evidence that the
> story is NOT true.  I
> believe the Long Riders website (I'd imagine someone
> here has it
> bookmarked and can provide the url) has a pretty
> comprehensive writeup
> about this.
>
> Heidi
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