We Ride Sport and Trail Magazine June 2017 | Page 8

Sweetwater

Mustangs

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A thousand horse and none to ride!

With flowing tail, and flying mane,

Wide nostrils never stretched by pain,

Mouths bloodless to the bit or rein,

And feet that iron never shod,

And flanks unscarred by spur or rod,

A thousand horse, the wild, the free,

Like waves that follow o'er the sea,

Came thickly thundering on.

~Lord Byron, XVII, Mazeppa, 1818

Photo Journalism of the Sweetwater County Mustangs as

chronicled by Equine Photographer Pat Doak since 1976

By Pat Doak

Photo credit: Ottilia Markuz-Job