yesterday when i saw those wild horses i got to thinking. they look like those little horses the mongolians still ride. does anybody know if they may be genetically the same?

i seem to remember that they have one less vertibra in their backgiving them their short bodied look.

it seems plausable that they may have migrated along with the early people who came from northeast asia to north america.

i saw a program on pbs where a large american cowboy took his enormous western saddle and went over to mongolia (that may not be the right place) and put his saddle on their compact ponies. his feet looked like they might drag. but the little ponies carried him with ease and did all sorts of things with him on board.

horses are just so cool looking. i always marvel at how they will work for us when they could just refuse. dogs too. they just want to help.

tom w

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