l.h.Cracker

Sounds to me like a Cracker mare and a Mammoth Jack would raise a really durable mule. Seems that the Cracker horses have the same background as the Mustang just on the other side of the nation. I've never had a Mustang but have been around a few and they were small tough rascals, a friend of mine used to keep one or two that hog hunted on and he would buy your breakfast if you would get him out of the stall, halter and saddle him, haha once saddled and you on his back he was a good dude. He'd ran outside until older, had rarely if ever saw a man. I rode him around one time at a roping, I thought it was a trap my buddy set for me as a joke, the horse was tied solid to something solid, with something solid and hobbled as well, but surprisingly I was able to bridle, unhobble and ride him without incident haha. His Mustangs were actually out of the herd that the Hidalgo movie was based on that wound up down here on the Oklahoma Arkansas line. The more modern way of breaking horses has made the "adopted" Mustangs more useable mounts. I would venture a guess that the long ago Cracker horses that raised themselves in the swamps before being managed and selectively bred had much the same disposition as the Mustangs. Actually they aren't bad tempered horses but are back nearer to being a truly wild animal and being a prey animal they just have stronger predator defense instincts than modern horses, if that isn't understood and properly managed they can be rank and seemingly bad tempered.