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[pct-l] REAL Tough Horses



While perusing through some old National Geographics, I came an across a 60 
page article in the February, 1929 issue about a man named A.F. Tschiffely who 
rode two 15 and 16 year old, 5 foot tall Criolla ponies (named Mancha and 
Gato) some 9600 miles from Buenos Aires to Washington D.C.. The article says he 
undertook the journey to prove the mettle of horses and to find out if the 
fables and legendary stories about Criollas were true. He chose the two horses from 
a group of 30 captured by the Tehuelche Indians in the interior of Patagonia, 
broke them and off he went. The journey took 2.5 years and was well 
documented. Sounds like the PCT would be a walk in the park for a Criolla pony. It says 
the Criolla evolved through the process of the survival of the fittest from 
Arabian horses brought to S. America by the founder of Buenos Aires in 1535 and 
released to the wild
 His friends told him the journey was absurd and impossible. Some things 
never change!