An amateur dressage rider from Wyoming finds a clinic in Spain with Olympian Rafael Soto By Darlene Vaughn After a lifetime of dressage lessons, this was just one more. Or was it? I was mounted on a wonderfully well-trained Andalusian gelding, and I was in a foreign country listening to an Olympic medalist giving me riding ...

Dressage and Trail at Epona by Darley Newman As I watched Napoleon, a beautiful white Andalusian, neighing and pawing the ground and prancing around, agitated at having to stand for a minute, I felt sure that this was not the horse that I would be riding for my dressage lesson at Epona, a riding center outside of Seville that specializes ...

Riding in Spain  by Jim Keeble ‘Imagine you’re having sex,’ shouts Mick. I try not to think too deeply about this, given that my partner is a large brown horse. But I do start to rise and fall in time with the trotting. It’s not exactly sex, more survival, but it is a lot more comfortable than before. I love horse riding. The only ...

By Bernadette & Stefan Basler, Switzerland Vacation in Ecuador… are you talking about Galapagos? Riding in Ecuador coming from Switzerland? Who in the world would ever think of something like that? Aren’t there more exiting rides available all over the world? Canada, Kenya, Botswana, Tanzania, Namibia, Jordan, Spain, Portugal? ...

Automatic Horses by Jasper Winn It’s rare to come across something totally new in the world of horses. Because horses are four legged and conservative creatures it’s inevitable that most riding experiences are going to be variations on the usual walk-trot-canter-gallop theme, with, maybe, a bit of jumping thrown in.   But I’d just ...

By Meg Weaver  on March 18, 2009  Hacienda Zuleta is alluring not merely for its idyllic 5,218 acres that guests can explore on horseback and its picturesque colonial buildings dating back to 1691. Hacienda Zuleta, home to former Ecuadorian president Galo Plaza Lasso, provides guests a home-away-from home among the volcanoes, and it ...