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Espuela Cattle Company

By | Cattle, Horses, Ranches

A Texas ranch with a lot of history is the Espuela Cattle Company located in Dixon. There’s even a Espuela Land & Cattle Co Restaurant & Steakhouse. From their website: “The Espuela (Spur) Cattle Company, a Texas corporation headed by Alfred M. Britton and S. W. Lomax, was formed in…

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Western Horse Doing Dressage

By | Horses, Trainers

Dressage is a form of horse training that almost always uses Thoroughbred horses and is considered the “ultimate” form of performance. But here is a quarter horse that can hold his own. Smart Rattle Snake is owned by Dainmasa Horses in Austria. You can learn more about him by clicking…

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Trainer – Tom Dorrance

By | Cowboys, Horses, Trainers

Tom Dorrance, along with Ray Hunt, are considered the founders of the Natural Horsemanship movement, although they didn’t realize it at the time. To them it was just common sense. Tom was born in 1910 and died in 2003 at age 93. He was married to Margaret Dorrance. Tom had…

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