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Horses used to be something that blue-blooded adults owned and red-blooded children dreamed about. But the galloping U.S. economy has put people in the saddle who ten years ago could get no closer to horseflesh than the seats at a racetrack or the illustrations in Smoky. There are now 3.5 million "pleasure horses" in the U.S., compared with two million...
...desert shrubbery, suggesting much, proving little. The most chillingly persuasive sequences show the whipping of African natives who are for sale to Arab herdsmen, a raid on a caravan smuggling enslaved children from Chad to Saudi Arabia. Later a trader inspects a naked native woman as if she were horseflesh, coolly examining her teeth...
...wrong way. Instead of going in the traditional counterclockwise direction of a U.S. racing horse, Ford's Mustang has bolted off in the wrong direction, like a runaway. That does not seem to bother Iacocca and his men, who know a good deal more about horsepower than about horseflesh. Even in the stable atmosphere of the Ford Division, they know that runaways are hard to catch...
...second-class treatment he received at the court of King Charles IV of Spain in 1803. Returning to Latin America in 1807, he led the wars of independence that cost the Spanish throne some of its richest New World possessions and established Bolívar, a lover of fine horseflesh and handsome women, as one of the foremost machos of history...
...mercurial colt Swaps outran Nashua in the 1955 Derby, and his horses won $1,154,454 last year. Now Ellsworth owns a 440-acre ranch in Chino, Calif., 1,000 sq. mi. of range land in Arizona and New Mexico, and about 500 head of high-priced thoroughbred horseflesh. At 55 he still insists, "I am not an ex-cowboy, I am a cowboy." He scoffs at the idea that horses can think, and trains his racers in ways (cuffing their ears to teach them response to the reins) that are heartily disliked by Eastern horse lovers...