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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dot Wiggins" <dotwgns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:57 AM
Subject: Arabian Ledgend?


> I remember a similar story about a Bedouin father and son being pursued 
> across the desert.   Father asked son "What color are the leading 
> pursurers?"   "Black" he answered..  "We must ride on the hottest side of 
> the dunes, blacks tire more in the heat"
> The blacks fell back.   "Now who is following closest?"  father asked. 
> "Chestnuts"  son said.   "We must ride in the rockiest places, chestnuts 
> have softer hooves"    The chestnuts slowed.  Next the son said 
> greys/whites were closest.  I do not remember what the father said about 
> these, but they slowed as well.
> When only the bays were following closely the father told the son, "Now we 
> must ride for our lives, they will not falter or slow."
> Sorry I don't remember the part about light colors, it's been a long time 
> ago (:>)  but I've always remembered it, at least in part.
> I think I read this in a book of short stories/ledgends  about horses as a 
> child???.
> If anyone comes up with a credit I'd like to know.
> TIA
>
> Dot 


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