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About the Mustang Breed
.The term ‘Mustang’ was applied
primarily to the feral or semi-feral horses of the plains of
western America, but has been extended to include the herds
on the pampas of South America as well. The derivation of the
word is from the Spanish mestengo, meaning ‘stranger’,
which in turn comes from the Spanish mesta, the name given to
associations of graziers, one of whose functions was the appropriation
of wild cattle which had attached themselves to the tame herds.
Like the word, the horse in historic times in America is of
Spanish origin, and the animals that Cortés brought over
from Cuba in 1519 were the first true horses ever to be seen
in the New World. When the ‘caballeros’ of Cortés
charged them, the Aztecs thought the gods had come down to earth,
and fled in terror; and it is no exaggeration to say that without
the horse Cortés could not have conquered Mexico or Pizarro,
later, Peru. Other horses were introduced later by the Spaniards
into Florida, by Ponce de Leon and by De Soto, Coronado and
others, into the unknown hinterland of North America west of
the Mississippi, becoming in due course Texas, Arizona, Colorado,
etc. There is a complete list of the horses of Cortés,
which indicates that these, and by inference the later imports,
were of Spanish blood, going back to Saracen (Arabian and Barb)
ancestry.
During the adventures and misadventures of the conquistadors,
many of their horses strayed or were captured by the Indians,
and it is from them there grew, multiplying in a surprising
manner in the three centuries up to 1819 (less than a hundred
generations), the vast herds or feral and half-tamed horses
which roamed the great plains at the beginning of the American
pioneering times, and which made the Native American the superb
natural horsemen that he was and is. To all these animals the
comprehensive name of Mustang is given. There were various types
within this term, the best being that known as the Indian Pony,
a product of Indian breeding and selection. The term ‘bronco’
(from the Spanish word meaning rough and rude), originally applied
to the wildest and most untameable Mustangs – hence the
phrase ‘bronco-busting’ – has now come to
apply to all these types equally with Mustangs.
The original Mustang was a small horse, seldom more than 14.2
hands in height and from 600-800lb in weight. In common with
all these small utility breeds, whether in the East or in the
West, they were nothing much to look at, scraggy and rough,
of uncertain temper, but hardy and courageous, and apparently
built of cast iron. Occasional throwbacks to their original
remote Arabian ancestry were known to appear, becoming legendary
figures for their outstanding size, beauty and speed. Every
known colour was represented and many strange shades and combinations,
of which again only the East has the like to show. Once broken
and domesticated the Mustang was a useful light-saddle horse,
and was the original cow pony.
Today the true Mustang has been largely succeeded by the modern
range horse, the result of the crossing of a diversity of strains
– Thoroughbred, Arab, Standard, Morgan, Quarter and others.
Though this may be true as a general statement, the plain-looking
and rough and workmanlike horse of the true Mustang type does
still exist, remaining the useful, if at time very wild, servant
he always was, and it is good to feel that this is so, thus
retaining the old-time romance of the Wild West. By no manner
of means is the cowboy of today mounted on beautiful Palominos,
or flashily marked Pintos, as American films would often have
us believe. It is worth noting here in connection with cowponies
that the Arab on account of the soundness of its legs, is increasingly
used for cutting-out cows on the ranch.
The Mustang has featured much in the annals of the plains, and
certainly in fiction and film. Because of this a certain romance
has been built around the breed, and it is hoped that its existence
will justify a continuance of this.
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