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Though few (if any) horses trot through the streets of Portland today, their memory has not galloped off over the hills. Apparently, rings for tethering the gallant beasts still dot the Oregon city, waiting vainly for their four-legged friends to return. Thanks to an artist named Scott Wayne Indiana, they wait no longer. In late 2005, Scott "tied his first pony to a horse ring" in the downtown Pearl District. Scott's steed was miniature and cheap and plastic, but its mane flowed just as freely and its hoofs pranced just as happily as any warm-blooded equivalent. (Or so we like to think.) Anyway, since that day, many Oregonians have joined in the project's mission to utilize the city's tether rings once more. View photos, examine the municipal map, and perhaps tie a few stallions of your own. But whatever you do, please, don't resort to horse thievery. Portland deserves its stable of pretty ponies.