Those three horses simply lucked out. According to Effie Schneider, Edison Key's sister, the horses shared buidlings, shelter, feed, grass and grain with the cattle. When a vet came to check the cattle, he checked the horses.

One farm hand was assigned to the horses full time until they became acclimated and were released. Today's horses, descended from the last stallion of the original wild herd, returned to the pine forests.