This Idea Of Freedom

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22Aug

This Idea Of Freedom

 

By: Skook

 

 

The white stallion with black ears was a legend in West Texas and New Mexico for over a hundred years. Many people know a wild horse can only live for twenty years, and stallions only kept control of a herd for five or six years. A son from the bachelor herd or a stallion from another herd was always ready to challenge the herd stallion’s right to control his harem and the juvenile colts and fillies.

 

Still, the sightings continued, but horsemen knew it was possible the sons and grandsons of the white stallion with black ears could have the markings of the original stallion and still control the herd.

 

These confrontations for control of the herd often ended with the maiming or death of either the challenger or the herd stallion, bur sometimes, a stallion would use discretion during a battle, decide he was outclassed and retire with dignity before he was ruined or killed. Defeated, his wild spirit broken, but still alive, he would spend the rest of his life days with the bachelor herd. Nature can be demanding at times, the right to control a herd of mares and the right to breed those mares is a right that was earned in blood during personal combat.

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