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Today we're going to start with a story about a man who placed his bet 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.
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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 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 Christensen or T C went by T C.
So Thorstenson said he was raised on a Sioux Indian Reservation in the hills of North Dakota. and he was always fond of animals and he trained small pets. He worked on the Milwaukee Railroad, which goes through Mile City and some Wyoming area. And he drove coal trucks in Wyoming and became a jockey and a trainer. Harvey's story began in 1980 when his mother was shot by a poacher.
So T C rescued the orchard mushroom, and the little guy was 35 pounds only. But Tink C fetty root 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 250 pounds. And then he put him in a barn. But travel.
The young buffalo did not like staying in the barn. And he kept slamming his body at the dividing wall in the barn. And that's why he named him Harvey Walbang.
So he was always banging the wall. Uh And as he grew to full size, He C 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 well to full size. And um By nineteen eighty five he started racing. Harvey Wahlbanger is going to the front. Two-eyed Bird is second.
It's going to come down to these two. Harvey Wahlbanger holding on over Two-Eyed Bird. Harvey Wahlbanger wins it. Two-eyed Bird finished second. Sisco was third.
The Appaloosa Smoke Signal finished fourth. Harvey Wahlbanger, another flawless performance. He was first invited to race in Gillette, Wyoming. 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 he also raced all kinds of racehorses, quarterhorse, thoroughbreds. and a whole field of harmonious sources. But TC never let him be in a vetting situation.
So it was just his honest run. Hmm. He raced with horses that were half his weight. And Because it is size. And that also he had a unique smell.
Those who feeded 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, Ornstenson said, but he'll fit in if he inhales on the way in and exhales on the way out. No 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 he earned a hundred and eight thousand dollars that year. But in his whole career, he raced 93 times and he won 79 of them. Harvey Wahlbanger.
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 at 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. Bornstenson 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.
And TC won his case and was ordered almost half a million dollars in damages. He started over by training a young Bussalo that he called Harvey Wahlbanger 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 um acting in movies and commercials and promoting rodeos and sporting events around the nation for a 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, or wherever you get our podcasts. Any story you missed or want to hear again can be found there daily.
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