Frank Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen) was a real guy, and Hidalgo was a real horse. Supposedly, they never lost a long-distance race in the U.S., prompting them to head for the Middle East around 1890 to… ...

Sep. 9—Pinto is Spanish for painted, dappled or spotted. Everybody knows what a pinto horse is. It's those horses with splotches of black, brown or some other color over white. Little Joe rode a ...

Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen) and his horse, Hidalgo, are invited to enter a 3,000-mile race against Arabia’s finest riders and horses after Wild Bill Hickock claims that Hidalgo and Hopkins are the ...