LOL! 
What confuses and annoys me is seeing some robber or hero ride his horse up to a train, and jump off the horse onto the train- leaving the horse out in the middle of no-where, with saddle and bridle?? Would that not spell doom for the horse? Not to mention a saddle was pretty dam expensive… and so was a good horse.
But the horses name was “Dan” of course. 
Ben Mockridge:
Sure is a nice horse. What’s his name?Luke, Drover:
You don’t have to put a name on something you might have to eat.
The pony, she named Wildfire.
Nice one. 
Don’t be silly. The assistant director will catch it.
While being chased Butch Cassidy and Sundance dumped their 2 horses in the movie and walked to Etta’s house … Which is funny because Butch said he didn’t even know where they were except it was not OK. There are rumors they did not die in S. America and made it back to the US but those are not credible. Etta did make it back but it’s unclear where she went or when she died.
A Mustang for a Pinto would have been a more fitting analogy
Really?
I think they just meant in the sense that a Ferrari is more like a million dollar race horse, and a mustang and a pinto are stock off the range.
Mustang and Pinto are both terms for horses. Ferrari uses a horse logo for the company, but the family name means Blacksmith, like Farrier in English, people who shoe horses. So a Ferrari and Michelin analogy might make sense in reference to some other topic but it doesn’t fit when discussing Horses in old West.
I’d say more that Mustang and Pinto are breeds of horses, and Ferrari is not.
Having an icon based on a horse is not the same as actually being named after one.
Yeah I meant that tongue in cheek. I should have included a smiley of some sort.
The Pinto catches fire when it is hit from behind. The Ferrari just catches fire.
Welcome to the Dope, where we can debate anything. 
It’s one of the reasons dogs pair so well with humans - we’re both capable of walking and running long distances with little rest.
Presumably whatever’s in the train is worth a lot more to the rider than his horse and saddle (for robbers, the loot, and for the hero, whatever human life or noble deed is being secured).
The robbers don’t stay on the train. Presumably, they get off the train and their compatriots bring them their horse(s) and they ride off.
Or they force the engineer to stop the train and the horse quickly catches up.
I can’t remember a single Western where it wasn’t pretty clear the plan was to board the train so it could be stopped. The robbery occurs after that.
They stopped the train in The Harder They Fall (that was not a robbery, though!)
