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He's like, I have a song that I want to show you. And I was like, okay. You can listen to the full episode out now wherever you get your podcast. And big shout out to my friends at Hyundai for making this possible. At a blast, cruising around the festival weekend in the all-new Palisade Hybrid.
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Today we're going to start with a story about a man who placed his bet on the bat on what may be the most unique competitor to ever hit a horse racing scene. Here's Francie Berg with a story of racetrack legend Harvey Wallbanger. My name is Trancy Bird. And I have a website. That's Orian Bashlow.
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So we have lots of stories. and one of them is Harvey Wahlbanger, the racing buffalo. His second race was in Mild City, Montana. which is my hometown. And when I was growing up, We had many entertaining things at a rodeo.
Nowadays it's just, you know, all these guys want to compete for their money, but In those days we had I remember having girls that rode in standing up with two horses each. Sisters and all the kind of entertaining things. And so one of the entertainments was Harvey Wohlbanger. His uh owner and trainer and jockey. was Colin Chorstensen or T C you met by T C.
So Thorstensen said he was raised on a Sioux Indian Reservation in the hills in North Dakota. and he was always fond of animals, and he trained small pets. He worked on the Milwaukee Railroad, which goes through Miles City and some Wyoming area. And he drove coal trucks in Wildwing and became a jockey and a trainer. Harvey's story began in 1980.
when his mother was shot by a poocher.
So T C rescued the orchard mushroom. and the little guy was thirty-five pounds only. but Tink C fed him with a bottle until it is a year and a half old. and he carried him in the back of his car until he got to be two hundred and fifty pounds. And then he put him in a barn.
But cherubim. The young buffalo did not like staying in the barn. And he kept slamming his body at the dividing wall in his arm. And that's why he named him Hardly wall banged.
So he was always banging the wall. Mm-hmm. And as he grew to full size, he sea rigged up a Kind of a saddle to fit and climbed on. and Harry took well to being ridden. and they began performing at rodeos.
The audiences loved him because he loved to race. And he just ran wide open. Hervey grew grew well to full size. And um By 1985 he started racing. Yeah.
Harvey Wahlbanger is going to the front. Two-eyed Bird is second. It's gonna come down to these two. Harvey Wahlbanger holding on over to Eye Bird. Harvey Wahlbanger wins it.
Two-eyed birds finished second, Sisko was third, the Appaloosa Smoke Signal finished fourth. Harvey Wahlbanger, another flawless performance. He was first invited to race in Jilletwyoi. That was his home state. He won the race by two and a half lengths, and his best race was 110 yards against a quarterhorse on a real track.
But she also raced all kinds of racehorses, quarter horses, thoroughbreds. and a whole field of hardness sources. But TC never let him be in a betting situation.
So it was just his honest run. He raced with horses that were half his weight. And Because it is size. And that also he had a unique smell. Most competitive horses were afraid to get close to him.
So he had an advantage running alone there by the rail. Harvey was very large, much larger than a horse, so he kinda had to hold his breath going in. He was led into the starting gate on a 40-foot rope. It's tight, Bornstenson said, but he'll fit in if he inhales on the way in and exhales on the way out. His best year was in nineteen ninety, so he had raced.
For five years when he raised His best year. He ran 20 races. And it earned $108,000 that year. But in his whole career, he raced ninety-three times. and he won seventy nine of them.
Harvey Wallbanger, my congrats has been pretty good in four career starts. Harvey Wahlbanger, a sprint sensation. I was on track when Harvey Wahlbanger campaigned in Chicago, first at Maywood Park against some saddled horses, but that was a harness track and a great crowd, and then at Arlington Park as well. I saw him run at Wyoming Downs. This was a tremendous circus sideshow.
Unfortunately, when he was thirteen, He died abruptly. from eating contaminated hay in Tucson, Arizona. Thornstensen was devastated and he sued the people that furnished the feed to the rodeo. Henny and Jimmy Murdock. and he went to court to sue them.
and they conceded that oleander, which was a poisonous bush, probably got mixed in with the hay. NTC won his case and was ordered almost half a million dollars in damages. He started over by training the young Buffalo that he called Harvey Wahlbanner Jr. But Junior was not interested in winning. He refused to grab the rail.
or run hard to see ahead of the racehorses.
So he did more acting in movies and commercials and promoting rodeos and sporting events around the nation part-time.
So T C changed to just a buffalo who did tricks. Unfortunately, T C never found Buffalo again with a genuine desire to win his race, who could take the place of his beloved Harvey Wahlbanger. My buffalo aren't just buffalo, he said, they're family members. And a terrific job on the production, editing, and storytelling by our own Reagan Habib. And Madison Derricott.
I'm a horse racing fan, always have been, and the story of Harvey Wahlbanger is one of horse racing's finest. A classic Americana story, the story of Harvey Wahlbanger, here. on our American stories. Lee Habib here, and I'd like to encourage you to subscribe to Our American Stories on Apple Podcasts, the iHeartRadio app. Spotify Or wherever you get our podcasts.
Any story you missed or want to hear again can be found there daily. Again, Please subscribe to the Our American Stories podcast on Apple Podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or anywhere you get your podcasts. It helps us keep these great American stories coming. Hey, it's Bobby from the Bobby Bones Show. I had an incredible time at this year's iHeartRadio Music Festival and even got the chance to hang out with Diplo and Bailey Zimmerman while I was there.
How did Ashes come together, Diplo? I pulled up real quick. He was about to leave on tour. You're about to jump in your tour bus and we had like three hours. It was really cool.
He literally just like randomly showed up to my house. I'm like, oh, hey, Diplo, what are you doing? He's like, I have a song that I want to show you. And I was like, okay. You can listen to the full episode out now wherever you get your podcast.
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Human trafficking doesn't always look like what you expect. Everyday moments can become opportunities for someone with bad intentions, whether you're a parent, teacher, coach, or neighbor. Check in. Ask questions. Stay connected.
Blue Campaign is a national awareness initiative that provides resources to help recognize suspected instances of human trafficking. Learn the signs and how to report at dhs.gov/slash blue campaign. Ah, come on. Come on, why is this taking so long? This thing is ancient.
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