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WOMAN: Now Arrow's after him again.
Oh, my gosh.
VINCE PATTON: A stallion takes off
after a 3-year-old colt.
Every time he tries to wander back
to the only family he has known,
horses take turns driving him away,
eight times in one hour.
Arrow's trying to prove there's a pecking order.
And Arrow wants him to know,
"I am the stallion of this bend,"
and he wants to make that loud and clear.
But Cruiser's keeping up pretty good.
Photographer Maggie Rothauge gives the horses nicknames.
She's watched Cruiser for years,
since he was 1 week old.
My heart's racing.
I kind of want to spend the night right here.
I am worried, because Cruiser's still a youngster,
so he could be hurt.
And I know that's part of the wild,
but it's not the part I want to see.
Maggie has figured out what the confused colt
still doesn't understand.
Tonight we are witnessing his banishment.
His band is rejecting him.
Cruiser is too old, too much competition
for female attention.
He had his teeth bared right at him, going for the bite.
That bite would take a hunk of flesh out of his hind end.
If he caught him, he would hurt him.
As the day ends, his eviction is final.
The colt will have to find some other bachelor exiles
and form a new band
until he can recruit females on his own.
It really surprised me when I saw him getting chased
clear out of the band.
He's a stallion now.