Driving Horses for Sale near Abilene, TX

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Shetland Pony Mare
Dream is a beautiful 3 yr old black and white tobiano mare that jumps and ..
Merkel, Texas
Pinto
Shetland Pony
Mare
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Merkel, TX
TX
$800
Shetland Pony Stallion
This is an absolute gorgeous stallion who is ASPC / AMHR registered. He sta..
Merkel, Texas
Black
Shetland Pony
Stallion
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Merkel, TX
TX
$3,000
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About Abilene, TX

Established by cattlemen as a stock shipping point on the Texas and Pacific Railway in 1881, the city was named after Abilene, Kansas, the original endpoint for the Chisholm Trail. The T&P had bypassed the town of Buffalo Gap, the county seat at the time. Eventually, a landowner north of Buffalo Gap, Clabe Merchant, known as the father of Abilene, chose the name for the new town. According to a Dallas newspaper, about 800 people had already begun camping at the townsite before the lots were sold. The town was laid out by Colonel J.