07/25/07 Comanche

You can buy bloodlines, employ the best trainers but you just can't put a price on heart. I'm Jeff Keane and I'll be back with how one horse with a lot of heart became legend. 268 men perished at the battle of Little Big Horn known as Custer's Last Stand and history has taught there was not a survivor, but that wasn't the complete truth, Here's Becky & Two days after the massacre one tough little horse was discovered lying next to his owners body badly wounded yet alive. Moved by his survival, officers decided to ship Comanche, the beloved mount of Captain Keogh nearly 1000 miles by railway in an attempt to save his life. Comanche must have been some horse for them to go to all that trouble. He was, and quite the looker too. The tough Mustang/ Morgan cross, captured and trained by Capt. Keogh, become a force to be reckoned with on the battlefield. He earned his warrior name after carrying an arrow in his flanks without flinching, in a fight against Comanche warriors. The horse's survival at the battle of Big Horn provided much needed inspiration for a weary Calvary and earned him the honorary title of Second Commanding Officer of the 7th Calvary plus the freedom to roam at will on the military base for the remainder of his life where it was said he developed quite the taste for beer. While you can't breed for heart if you're lucky enough to own a horse with it, be like the US Calvary resp