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Post by hytyme on Sept 25, 2007 1:13:04 GMT -5
For those of you who remember the movie Dances with Wolves with Kevin Kostner, I just found out that, Cisco the Buckskin he rode, died last month at age 33.
He spent his days at a place called 1880 Town, which is kind of a tourist trap off the freeway in South Dakota. It has a lot of the original movie memorabilia etc. They also had the mules used to haul the freight wagon in the movie. We will be heading east soon so I emailed them to see how he was doing and if he would still be there. (They move him in the cold months). We have stopped and saw him many times.
Actually, Cisco's real name was Buck. He had a great home there, and they took wonderful care of him. In his late years they put ponies in with him. For some reason he didn't like normal sized horses anymore.
This makes me feel real similar to when Secretariat, and Mickey Mantle, died.
Darn
Jim
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Post by mickeyfan3 on Sept 25, 2007 1:45:35 GMT -5
Awe, he was a cutie. Glad to hear that he got to live out the remainder of his life cared for and loved, and not dumped as excess baggage.
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Post by sundancer on Sept 25, 2007 7:33:46 GMT -5
While I am sad to hear that he died, at least he was cared for, unlike some of our horses who ended up on feedlots. Yes, I remember him well from the movie. He was a very nice looking horse. By the way, Secretariat's 1/2 brother, Straight Flush, just died this summer. I believe he was 32 years old. He lived on a retirement farm in Hemet. You can go to Secretariat.com and find info on Straight Flush. Here's the link: www.secretariat.com/brother.html |
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Post by buddee86 on Sept 25, 2007 8:12:38 GMT -5
Thank you for bringing this up, I always wonder what happens to the horses I admired in the movies. At least Buck had a loving caring home and lucky you for having the chance to meet him! My favorite horse growing up (aside from the Black Stallion), was the golden horse from Blazing Saddles (Sam in real life). I did some reading years back on him and found that he'd been in a severely abusive situation due to an owner's health and apparent neglect to ensure the horse was cared for. Here is a link on his update in 1998, although I'm sure he's since passed, he too was loved well in his last years. www.igha.org/guest_r.html#samThanks again for letting me know another movie horse was treated well until he passed on. |
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Post by ocean9011 on Sept 25, 2007 16:45:49 GMT -5
What ever did happen to The Black? That is a movie that I still watch to this day. I own 2 copies. I loved that horse...
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Post by gsdmom on Sept 25, 2007 19:51:28 GMT -5
Our Cisco got his name from this movie horse. When we bought him the people were calling him Kip. "Dances With Wolves" is a huge favorite of ours so Kip became Cisco.
Kathy
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Post by ljbrooks on Sept 25, 2007 21:39:13 GMT -5
I think "The Black" was a mare wasn't he/she? I would love to know what happened to him too. Now I'll have to hunt it down. That was/is my favorite movie.
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Post by Tockita on Sept 25, 2007 23:46:33 GMT -5
I think "The Black" was a mare wasn't he/she? I would love to know what happened to him too. Now I'll have to hunt it down. That was/is my favorite movie. It was a stallion I think named Cass Ole. They used some other horses for the race scenes. The horses were not exactly the same color so in some shots you can tell. |
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Post by librarybarb on Sept 25, 2007 23:48:25 GMT -5
The Black was played by Cass Ole, a gorgeous black Arabian stallion. Cass Ole was also well care for until his death. In the recent "Young Black Stallion" the colt was played by a filly (hmmmm, "he" ran off away from the camera with "his" tail high in the air and it was pretty easy to notice that was not a colt!). Guess they thought no one would notice!  |
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Post by librarybarb on Sept 25, 2007 23:59:52 GMT -5
A great book on horses in Hollywood is "Hollywood Hoofbeats". It was written by Robert Mitchum's daughter. She writes about the individual horses as well as the cruelty involved in the treatment of the horses in many early movies and the efforts to regulate and insure humane treatment of horses and all animals on movie sets.
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Post by crum on Sept 26, 2007 8:50:26 GMT -5
In the Black Stallion Returns, El Mokhtar was the black stallion that actually performed in the race scenes. My understanding is that he colicked at the end of filming and had to be euthanized. Apparently Morroco did not have the facilities to perform the surgery at the time.
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