Five years ago this month I launched Writing Horseback – Your Guide to Equestrian Travel Deals and Lodging Reviews. It’s been said that when you begin a travel blog you should pick a topic that is passionate to you. Like many young girls, I always dreamed of owning a horse. After owning three Quarter Horses
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Happy Independence day America! You can’t have a proper Fourth of July celebration without parade horses and rodeo queens. Parade horses I remember proudly riding my silver buckskin Quarter Horse, Cricket, in the Fiesta Day Moraga parade in my youth. My parents were not “horse people” yet they supported my passion for horses both emotionally
Before the magnificent Broadmoor became a world-class resort in Colorado Springs it was home to the Broadmoor Dairy Farm. Prior to that, the Broadmoor, located at the base of Colorado’s Cheyenne Mountain, was a ranch. Philip Anschutz, the Broadmoor’s third owner in the resort’s 93 year history, is a well known collector of American West
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My daughter was grinning ear to ear when I walked in the house with bags of groceries in my arms. “Do you notice anything?” she asked with a hopeful voice. I glanced at her face for a hair cut or a new nail polish color. My eyes continued scanning downward and I noticed the shiny
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People love cheering for the underdog. In this case, horse racing fans and the entire town of Yuba City, California are cheering on the race horse California Chrome and his entire team, including horse trainers Art, Alan and Steve Sherman of California-based Sherman Racing Stables and jockey Victor Espinoza. The chestnut race horse born at
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Hugh Trabandt pulls up to the Broadmoor clad in jeans and a white shirt with a brown sweater vest, his spurs jingle and sterling silver initials glisten on the side of his cowboy boots as they catch the light of the sun when he hops out of the pickup truck. His cowboy boots are covered
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to ride a mustang? I’ve had the opportunity to watch small bands of wild mustangs roam free in the Badlands of Little Book Cliffs, Colorado and was awe-inspired by the experience. I was excited to learn of another opportunity to interact with wild mustangs in north-eastern
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A reporter for a local newspaper asked me what my most treasured art possession was. That question was posed to me almost thirty years ago, yet my answer would be the same today. My parent’s commissioned an artist to create a pastel portrait of my horses’ head back in 1976. Though my horse has since
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Is pleasure riding in California destined to be a thing of the past? Growing up in Northern California, I rode my horses throughout Contra Costa County. While I no longer own horses, my most treasured art possession is a pastel portrait of my horse. I recently visited downtown Napa and discovered equine art – horse
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