Curiosidades

LeAnn Rimes (an American country and pop singer) who grew up in Garland, Texas but performed much in Irving, Texas, agreed to be featured as the on-air host for the video. Irving Community Television Network had a history with Rimes after taping her when she was a teenager singing at various functions in the City of Irving.

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Dallas businessman Ben H. Carpenter undertook the task of converting his family ranch into a world-class residential and business development called "Las Colinas."

To reflect the state's natural, untamed past, Carpenter commissioned a larger-than-life sculpture of a group of wild mustangs running across a stream. He planned to display the work in the center of a large, pink-granite plaza, where it would serve as the focal point of the new development.

In 1976, Carpenter approached African wildlife artist Robert Glen to bring his vision to reality. Glen spent a year researching and studying the history of the mustangs to better understand his subject. He discovered that mustangs in the United States today showed elements of crossbreeding, but in southern Spain he found a line of horse with the same pure bloodlines as the horses that the Spanish brought to America centuries ago. He used these horses as the models for his sculpture.

Robert Glen, Internationally acclaimed African wildlife sculptor, worked from his studio in Nairobi, Kenya, Glen made small scale models of mustangs in various poses to help him work out the design of the sculpture. He then made half-lifesized models of the horses. For the next step in the process, Glen made fiberglass molds of these models and shipped them to a foundry in England.