The answer is "Five Minutes to Midnight," a horse whose original name
was "Tumbling Mustard":
"'Five Minutes to Midnight' was caught together with a herd of wild
horses in the Sacree Indian Reservation in Alberta, Canada, in 1924.
He was saved from going to the slaughterhouse by a buying agent of the
'Calgary Stampede' who intuitively bought him for five dollars. 'Five
Minutes to Midnight' has most likely been the best bucking bronc in
rodeo history. In 1926, when his career began, he was called 'Tumbling
Mustard', but he was as black as the then-famous 'Midnight' (though he
had white fetlocks at the hind legs and a white blaze on his head).
When 'Tumbling Mustard' started bucking off cowboys as successful as
'Midnight', his name was changed. 'Little Five' was only 810 lbs, has
a bushy tail and a shaggy hide, which always looked a bit messy.
During his astonishing career, which lasted up to a leg injury in
1944, he bucked off more than 2000 men. (...) His tombstone on the
Colorado ranch of his owner, Verne Elliott, bears the words: 'He was a
bronc they could not break'."
(Translated back to English from a German edition)
Source:
Jane and Michael Stern: "Way Out West" (German translated edition).
Ullstein publishing house, 1996. ISBN 3-550-06890-5
Many thanks to my friend and colleague scriptor-ga, whose assistance
was invaluable.
More mentions of the bronc "Five Minutes to Midnight" may be found here:
Google Web Search: "five minutes to midnight" bronc OR bronco
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22five+minutes+to+midnight%22+bronc+OR+bronco
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