Hearts beat and a man takes a step. No one breathes as the horse pins his ears. This is the legendary stallion. Unnamed and untamed he has become everyones dream horse. He lives to be free and everyone lives to catch him. The man halts and the stallion relaxes. A mare approaches the stallion from behind. He nails his ears and the mare stops in her tracks. He relaxes again. Another minute passes and no one moves. Finally the man crouches to the ground and the stallion takes the bait. He moves, feeling the man has become vulnerable to his mighty prowess. The man leaps into the air and throws the lasso around the stallion. Caught, he fights and rears and throws his hooves into the air. Three more lassos and he fights harder. The sweat wicks off his chest into the air and blood covers the man. Finally, the stallion lowers his head in defeat. The man throws his fist in the air and shouts. The stallions ears droop and he follows the man towards the barn. Blood drips down his face and into puddles of sweat as he walks by. One girl stands at the edge of the crowd and cries silent tears for the stallion. Stripped of his power and torn of his freedom, his mares are caught and sold. Only the girl cares for the stallions wounds as the man goes the bar and gets drunk, only to fall off a cliff and drown in the river below. The stallion whickers for his mares to hear over a hundred replies far off in the distance. The girl understands and goes back to cleaning the wounds. She names the stallion Pride. Then, she sets up her cot and falls asleep to the rythmic reathing of her stallion.