Mae Darling, in her search for connections from the equine skeletons found in the Bering Strait and the American Mustang ponies, has uncovered a local legend of the Crow tribe. The Crow tribe claims to have been visited hundreds of years ago by a god who rode horses so beautiful that they could only be celestial. This god taught them a mixture of dressage and ancient equitation similar to what Xenophon wrote about in his famous treatise "On Horsemanship". The Chief of the Crow Tribe owns a bloodline of horses which is claimed to have descended from a young stud given as a gift by the god to the tribe. Ms Darling says that the offspring of this bloodline which she was allowed to view looked similar to the local mustangs, but with trimmer limbs, smaller head, and more muscular haunches.
Ms Darling is currently in the process of negotiating a DNA test on one of these horses.
"It is a very slim possibility", says Darling, "Local legends are often nothing more than a tourist attraction and have no basis on researchable fact. I suspect that these horses are actually just a Warmblood cross with some Mustang in there somewhere, and that this is just a tourist attraction gimmick. Still, if it were in fact true, this could be groundbreaking. It could change our history books!"
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The Horse Man
Fiksi UmumAn immortal man who cares only for horses discovers that the world has built up around him while he ignores it. While hidden from prying eyes, he has preserved ancient bloodlines of certain breeds, and developed a type of his own; something that uns...
