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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 1403500" data-attributes="member: 158"><a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/hidalgo.html" target="_blank">http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/hidalgo.html</a>Synopsis: Held yearly for centuries, the Ocean of Fire - a 3,000 mile survival race across the Arabian Desert - was a challenge restricted to the finest Arabian horses ever bred, the purest and noblest lines, owned by the greatest royal families. In 1890, a wealthy Sheik invited an American and his horse to enter the race for the first time. Frank T. Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen) was a cowboy and dispatch rider for the US cavalry who had once been billed as the greatest rider the West had ever known. The Sheik (Omar Sharif) would put this claim to the test, pitting the American cowboy and his mustang, Hidalgo, against the world's greatest Arabian horses and Bedouin riders - some of whom were determined to prevent the foreigner from finishing the race.Also, the "Hopkins was a charlatan" article that makes the tale even more interesting to watch...<a href="http://theedge.bostonherald.com/movieNews/view.bg?articleid=322" target="_blank">http://theedge.bostonherald.com/movieNews/view.bg?articleid=322</a></blockquote>