Deep in the subconscious spirit of the people of the Americas is a love affair with the horse. While the modern horse did not come to the Western Hemisphere until Christopher Columbus brought a herd to the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean in 1493, and it has long since been supplanted in modern times as the primary mode of transportation, the horse remains the single most important animal introduced in the New World by Europeans. Alan Day, a horseman before he could walk, has captured th


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