Choctaw Sun Dance - red roan Medicine Hat stallion (photo courtesy - Karma Farms) Though Hidalgo was competing with approximately one hundred crack desert Arab horses ...he completed the race in sixty-eight days, the winner by thirty-three hours.
		7. "Pintos" By Pers Crowell Though pintos have been unpopular with many American horsemen, there are others who know that staunch spirits lie beneath the multicolored coats. One of the advocates would be Mr. A.F. Tschiffely who rode alternately two Argentine Criollos, one a pinto, from Buenos Aires to Washington, D.C., a distance of approximately ten thousand miles. The three companions made their way across vast plains, over cold barren mountains, through jungles, hot deserts, and swamps. Both animals arrived at their destination in good condition. After being shipped back to their native Argentina, the two animals lived many, many years. Another would be Mr. Frank T. Hopkins, who owned the famous Hidalgo, a cream-and-white pinto stallion bred and raised near Laramie, Wyoming. When Mr. Hopkins was competing in the Worlds Fair in Paris in 1890, he was requested to enter the 3,000-mile endurance race which had taken place in Arabia each year for a thousand successive years. The ride started at Aden, Arabia, continued along the Gulf, then inland along the borders of the two countries. Though Hidalgo was competing with approximately one hundred crack desert Arab horses, over hot dry country with a scarcity of water, he completed the race in sixty-eight days, the winner by thirty-three hours. The pinto Hidalgo thus won the distinction of being the only horse other than an Arab to win this historic race.
		7. "Pintos" Crowell, Pers. Cavalcade of American Horses. McGraw Hill, 1951: pp. 292–295.

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