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</td> <td>&nbsp; </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="241" width="300" align="left"> <blockquote> <h1 style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 100%; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">&quot;The Sorraia </h1>has absolutely no history of a domestic breed, only that of a wild animal, and even as such it had fallen into oblivion and become almost extinct until its rediscovery earlier this century. <p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px" class="bdytxt">If it breeds stronger than domestic breeds, if horses are born with its characteristics after hundreds of years and without man's selective influence, it simply cannot be the power of an old breed with an ingeniously fortified genetic makeup, but can only be the inheritance of the wild forefather.&quot;<span class="spacertxt">.........</span><span class="quotedtxt">Hardy Oelke</span><br/></p></blockquote> </td> <td width="444">&nbsp; </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="64" colspan="2">&nbsp; </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="72" colspan="2"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td height="230" width="29%">&nbsp; </td> <td class="smtxt" valign="top" width="33%" align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <tbody> <tr> <td height="180" valign="top" width="164"> <p></p> <p class="smtxt"> <br/> <br/>There are very few details from my childhood that I can recall.&nbsp; However, I do vividly remember riding horses from very early on.&nbsp; I spent many miles riding alongside John Wayne on my bouncy horse Buckaroo pretending to be a cowgirl in the Wild, Wild West!</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="164"> <img border="0" src="images09/spacer.gif" width="165" height="30" usemap="#Map2"/> <map id="Map2" name="Map2"> <area href="journey1-sorraia-horses.html" shape="RECT" coords="95,0,166,29"/> </map></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> <td width="31%"> <p class="bdytxt"></p> <p class="bdytxt"> <strong>Soul of Sorraia (SOS)</strong> is dedicated to preserving the almost extinct European Sorraia Horse and the Sorraia type Spanish Mustang on American soil. </p> <p class="bdytxt">The Sorraia Horse is the last surviving primitive descendant of an ancestral wild horse and is indigenous to Spain and Portugal. <img border="0" src="images09/spacersm.gif" width="234" height="42" usemap="#Map3"/> </p> </td> <td width="7%">&nbsp; 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