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He was born at 8:40 a.m. on April 5.
When he entered the world, the world greeted him as a soft ridge in Anderson County. That s where, in the first moments of his remarkable existence, he laid in the sun, legs folded under his narrow chest.
When he entered this world, he changed it.
He is one of the rarest horses on the planet. He will be only one of maybe 15 of his breed, known as the Marsh Tacky, born this year in the horse s native South Carolina.
These horses, still unique to the Palmetto State, are known as small and smart, as survivors. Over the course of half a millennium, they evolved on our isolated sea islands to be tough and mighty and fearless.
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