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The <\/em>Daily\u2019s newest correspondent is Elena Passarello, who will be writing about famous animals from history. This week\u2019s beast is the silent-film star\u00a0<\/em>Tony the Wonder Horse.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Design\u00a0by Kristen Radtke.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tom Mix and Tony at their best! Rip snortin\u2019 action!\u2014break neck horsemanship! A thrill for everybody!<\/p>\n

\u2014Destry Rides Again<\/em> promo poster, 1932.<\/em><\/p>\n

When they were about to do a difficult scene, Tom would pat Tony on his nose and say, \u201cNow, look, Tony, here\u2019s the way we\u2019re going to do this.\u201d And then that was the way they did it.<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/em>Olive Mix, 1957.<\/p>\n

Tom once told a newspaperman that I liked to show off. Well, I\u2019ll tell you something. He likes to show off too. Do you think he would do all those difficult and dangerous tricks if he thought nobody would see them?<\/p>\n

\u2014\u201cTony\u2019s Story Told By Tony Himself,\u201d <\/em>1923.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Name:<\/strong> Tony the Wonder Horse<\/p>\n

Years Active:<\/strong> October 1918 (Fame and Fortune<\/em>) through\u00a0November 1932 (Rustler\u2019s Roundup<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Distinguishing Marks:<\/strong> Two white \u201csox\u201d on back legs, diamond-shaped blaze fading into a narrow stripe that runs from forehead to nostrils<\/p>\n

Skills:<\/strong> Galloping into fire, chasing trains, jumping through trick-glass windows, untying the hero\u2019s hands, nudging the hero into the arms of his sweetheart for a grand-finale kiss<\/p>\n

Habitat:<\/strong> Mixville Studios, on location at the Grand Canyon, a custom-made Packard motor trailer with rubber seats and a built-in water trough<\/p>\n

Additional Notes: <\/strong><\/p>\n

One could argue that American cinema began with the image of a horse at full gallop, when Eadweard Muybridge laid twenty-four trip wires attached to twenty-four cameras along a track in Palo Alto and a dark mare called Sallie Gardner ran over all of them. Those two-dozen captured images, when strung together, set into motion the gorgeous pump and reach of Sallie\u2019s shiny black body and the split-second of her stride when all four legs left the ground.<\/p>\n

So, though Tony might have been film\u2019s original Wonder Horse\u2014the first in a long line of celluloid steeds like Champion, Silver, and Trigger\u2014he was forty years too late to cut any kind of original figure in film. Tony wasn\u2019t even the first horse ridden onscreen by his costar Tom Mix\u2014\u201cthe King of the Cowboys,\u201d famous for his dark features, gigantic white Stetson, and a rodeo fearlessness derived from both an unshakable trust in horses and an industry untroubled by safety rules.<\/p>\n

Mix had a series of rides in the 1910s, first in single-reel shorts then in hour-long \u201coaters\u201d\u2014hastily made silent Westerns of the teens and twenties. When his first longtime horse, Old Blue, died in 1918, on the set of Treat \u2019em Rough<\/em>, Mix auditioned a few replacements and finally cast Tony, a compact sorrel that Mix\u2019s trainer had noticed pulling a chicken wagon down Glendale Avenue.<\/p>\n

Tom Mix had an ideal mug for silent film\u2014his thick black eyebrows and large features registered well on the cameras, and he looked aces in his gaudy cowboy duds. Likewise, Tony stood out thanks to his signature white blaze and perky ears, which were often pricked forward. Tony was small enough that when Mix stood next to him, the two could gaze straight into each other\u2019s eyes like Valentino and a velvety starlet.<\/p>\n

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Tom Mix with\u00a0Tony.<\/p><\/div>\n

Mix trained Tony as a showman, ready to dance, buck, rear, swim, roll down cliffs, and take off galloping at the smallest signal. He found Tony hilariously adept at interior scene work; the horse could pace around an indoor set like a butler in a drawing room comedy. Directors learned they could give Tony close-ups, reaction shots, and punch lines; in an oft-repeated gag, Tony filched Mix\u2019s ten-gallon hat with his teeth. Mix would leap onto Tony\u2019s back from great heights and burning buildings, and Tony leapt, too\u2014on and off moving trains, down rocky crags, and into hotel swimming pools. Mix\u2019s films took early stabs at the grandiose sweep of Westerns, and Tony looked gorgeous galloping over an acre in a wide shot.<\/p>\n

The Fox Films press machine fed countless stories to movie rags about the special romance between horse and cowboy. They spun rumors that Mix refused to let anyone else sit on Tony\u2019s back and gleefully reported a disastrous shooting day in which an ill-timed dynamite blast sent the pair flying, leaving them concussed and bleeding. Tony, the papers said, would not give in to his pain until he made sure Mix was still alive\u2014once he saw his partner breathing, Tony blacked out.<\/p>\n

The two often teamed up for interviews; Mix had trained Tony to answer yes or no when he squeezed Tony\u2019s sides with his knee. They met president Coolidge, dined in style at the hotel Astor (though Mix only let Tony eat celery), and sailed to Europe, where so many admirers reached out to pet Tony that Mix feared his fur would rub off. In 1927, after his title roles in Just Tony<\/em>, Tony Goes Wild<\/em>, and Oh! You Tony<\/em>, Tony became the eighth film star to partake in the new Hollywood tradition of dipping his feet in wet cement outside Sid Grauman\u2019s movie house\u2014the same year as Gloria Swanson and two years before Joan Crawford.<\/p>\n

Sadly, we have more press about the Tony pictures than we have actual movies, thanks to the volatility of nitrate film. A 1937 warehouse fire incinerated the entire careers of some silent stars, and about ninety percent of Mix\u2019s three-hundred-plus pictures went up in those flames. Among the lost films is 1923\u2019s Three Jumps Ahead<\/em>, which featured the pair\u2019s famed twenty-foot canyon leap. A lobby card photo of the jump, taken from a distance, shows a tiny horse-and-rider ninety feet above the rocks of a canyon.<\/p>\n

The reviews of the jump were breathless: \u201cThe crashing climax\u2014Tony\u2019s very remarkable jump across a yawning abyss with Tom Mix on his back\u2014is startling in its realism. There\u2019s no fake to this scene. No possible way it could be faked. And besides, faking scenes is beneath the dignity of Tom and Tony.\u201d<\/p>\n

The jump is totally fake, of course; the figures were obviously shrunk to make the distance of the leap look more daring. And though Tom Mix swore to the press it was the two of them who performed the trick (and that they did it five times), a couple movie stuntmen have since laid claim to it. Besides, Tony had become too much of an insurance risk to be taxed with dangerous action; it\u2019s bad business for a wonder horse to go around doing things that might kill him. So Tony had body doubles for the more physical work of his late career, and was used more often in tighter shots and comic lazzis. By the thirties, doubles covered even those scenes, many of them with painted-on blazes and white sox.<\/p>\n

Tony retired in 1932. Mix replaced him with an ebony gelding that he first passed off as Tony but later renamed Tony Jr. Then came Tony II, a Palomino that Mix rode in the circus after the talkies talked him out of a job. But the original Tony lived for a decade after his own retirement. He even outlived Mix, who died not on horseback but behind the wheel of a 1937 Cord Phaeton on a road outside of Tucson, when he came upon an unexpectedly out bridge and couldn\u2019t make the jump.<\/p>\n

Near the site of that crash, on what is now Highway 79, stands a monument to the King of the Cowboys. At the top of a stone base is an iron-cast silhouette of a riderless Tony. The statue has been stolen again and again, each time quietly replaced. The iron figure stands in black, feet firmly planted on a swatch of grass. His tail droops between his legs and his back seems burdened by the weight of an empty saddle. Though his ears are still pricked forward, his head hangs low, as if to say that Tony, upon hearing of the fate of Tom Mix, wept.<\/p>\n

Elena Passarello is a Whiting Award winner and the author of<\/em>\u00a0Let Me Clear My Throat and<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>Animals Strike Curious Poses, which<\/em>\u00a0will be released by Sarabande Books in February. She is one of the <\/em>Daily\u2019s correspondents.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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