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Bronco Americano Que Fez o Raid a Aden a Akaba en 1890 (American
Bronco That Made the Ride From Aden to Akaba in 1890) 1930s article excerpt sent in by Robert Brislawn's son Neil. In the letter Neil also makes reference to a horse that Frank Hopkins rode up from South America. By Dr. Ruy D'Andrade Since the start of the 1500s til the end of the 1700s, from a little more than 300 mares there spread millions of mares and horses that returned to the wild state in all parts of America, and they recouped in the free life and in the difficulties of the climate, the savage enemies, wild animals and men, the original qualities of the Spanish Horse. The Americans admired their magnificent qualities, but which they could not admit to being other than Arabian, so they said the Spanish horses were those of the Arabians and the Moors. As is seen, they lamentably confounded the Spanish, Arab, and Moorish horses which are, as I have told in summary and have already shown, horses pertaining to very distinct breeds. (Author's note: the Spanish type is always primitive and native when returned to the free life.) So convinced are the Americans of this illusion that it is not enough in order to reject it to observe how the Spanish Horse I refer, of course, to the primitive type came through in that most severe test of resistance (endurance) by those self-same Arabs in that same Arabia, as occurred in the ride of 3,000 miles brought about in 1890 from Aden to Syria. In this course competition the pinto Hidalgo beat, in their own country and climate, 100 Arabian horses selected for this very purpose, as he brilliantly awarded himself the victory, arriving a day and a half before the only three Arabian horses that came through to the end of this so disputed trial. It is not enough either, to the American, to observe how in our rides those who arrive in the front of all the rest of the contestants, imported or crossed, without giving sign of the least bit of exhaustion or fatigue, are those of ours, and if these contests are brought about as being without technical concerns, which is to say, utilizing only those natural resources that are found along the road, it is certain that, at the end of three months there would remain even the memory of those foreign horses who came against us, while those of ours, with only grass and dry pasture, would cheerfully be making 40 miles a day indefinitely, because, given their fast and comfortable way of traveling, they would move slowly and indolently with frequent pauses to graze peacefully, covering the distance in about 12 hours and without fatigue. It is also certain that, today, disgracefully, there are few Spanish Horses left that still have their ancient characteristics. Dr. Ruy D'Andrade was a Portuguese zoologist, paleontologist, anatomist, and historian, and was regarded as the most highly-respected expert of his time on Iberian horses. In 1920 he rediscovered and saved the lost Sorraia breed. |
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