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Wild Horses Still Roam the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and Their Origins Are a Mystery
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Wikipedia has a good article on them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banker_horse
The mistery is they don't know which European ship brought them there and when. There are multiple options.
Isn't that true of most wild horses in the Americas though? I can't imagine anyone has pedigree info for feral animals, or at least not that far back