It’s a breathtaking scene in a beautiful movie. Hundreds of wild horses run free across the Montana prairie in the final scene of Hidalgo. The spectacular sight lasts only four minutes in the film. But those four minutes took more than a month of preparation. “It was a very big undertaking to run all those loose horses,” Rex Peterson recalls. “Several people said you’re crazy to even try that!” Peterson was the head horse trainer for Hidalgo, an assignment so tough it put him in


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