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On Tuesday, December 30, 2003, at 05:31 PM, 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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