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...means peaked. Nearly every breed is still on the increase, from Tennessee Walking Horses (91,000) to Shetland ponies (119,000). Arabians - the currently chic horse in many places - stood at 16,015 in 1959; today there are 46,266 registered in the U.S. and Canada. The Appaloosa, the unusually spot ted horse that got much of its vogue from Walt Disney's 1966 Run, Appaloosa, Run, has climbed in the U.S. from 11,000 to 92,500. The American quarter horse, still the nation's most popular breed, expects to top half a million this year...
...horses, get up early to feed and water them. And, whereas boys often buck at mucking out stalls, notes Mrs. Carol Meyer, "the girls don't argue about it, they love the horses so." The same was true of Cindy McAfee in Louisville; her parents bought her an Appaloosa, Tonka, for her 14th birthday and were delighted when she took over all the chores. "It's wonderful for a girl of her age," says Mrs. McAfee. "I'd much rather have her horse-crazy than boy-crazy at this...
Brando's prime Appaloosa stallion obviously means more to him than any team of Hollywood scriptwriters ever imagined. In a role that a lesser actor might easily saunter through, Brando handicaps himself with a fiercely concentrated acting style more suitable for great occasions. He seems determined to play not just a man but a whole concept of humanity, and Saxon's brazen theft of the hoss soon looms as a cause equal in significance to the Magna Carta or the Declaration of Human Rights. Though Saxon ropes Brando, drags him through a stream, and presses his forearm onto...
...Appaloosa. When two strong men stake their claims to a strumpet and a stallion, the enmity between them can be the stuff that fleshes out the bony structure of the very best westerns. But in this film, a mulish scenario puts a frustrating checkrein on the excitement, and it is slim pickings for Marlon Brando, playing a saddle tramp whose dream is to become a horse breeder, and John Saxon, portraying a Mexican bandit chieftain who has a girl (Anjanette Comer) up for grabs in his lair...
Rosa did the now famous portrait depicting Bill astride his favorite Appaloosa. In return for the portrait, the King of Cowboys sent Rosa a pair of wild American mustangs. In no time at all, they were broken in and eating out of Rosa's hand, just as tame as kittens. They were the models for some of her most important pictures...