Until very recently, it was official US government policy to more or less forcibly transform Native American warriors into farmers. US government agents made sure that Indian pony stallions were either castrated or slaughtered. Heavy horses bred for harness were brought in to cross on the local mares. Harness horses or trotters, whether heavy draft […]
Tag Archives: Colonial Spanish Horses
I was quite sorry to hear that San Felipe Pueblo was no longer interested in keeping the horse herds that have roamed the area for centuries. The lineage of Medicine Horses among Spanish Mustangs traces back to a stallion named Santo Domingo because that pueblo is where the Brislawn brothers found and bought him. That horse […]
I have waited to call the vet and get the Choctaw Princess’s teeth checked until she was willing to let people look in her mouth and float her teeth without panicking. The first time I set my hand on her nose, she threw up her head, rose up onto her tippy-toes and began skittering sideways […]
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