In Hidalgo, which opens Friday, Viggo Mortensen plays Frank T. Hopkins, an American cowboy who takes his mustang overseas to compete in the Ocean of Fire, an endurance horse race across thousands ...

Frank T. Hopkins has brought his plucky mustang, Hidalgo, across the ocean to compete against the world’s finest Arabian horses on their own ground. All around him, pale robes that shield the ...

The “Lord of the Rings” star, whose King Aragorn did his share of riding in the Oscar-winning trilogy, liked his main “Hidalgo” horse, T.J., so much that he bought the mustang.

Frank's heart belongs only to his horse, whom he calls "Little Brother." Hidalgo, played by a mustang named T.J., steals every scene he's in. (He conveys more emotion than Mr. Mortensen ever does.) ...

Just about every shot is a beauty shot in "Hidalgo," an Arabian days adventure ... But Mr. Mortensen is out there alone, astride the gallant mustang of the title, in a movie of magnificent ...

Hopkins’ horse, Hidalgo, is a mustang, a wild mixed-breed horse that was introduced to the Americas with the arrival of the Spaniards to the New World. In the world of horse racing these mixed ...

Yet when seeing a Mustang fenced on a field somewhere in what appears to be a horse training area, the mind immediately links the image with names like Hidalgo rather than Glamorous Glen III.