Caballo!

My Mami Luisa told me that when I was learning to talk my first word was 'caballo.' Apparently my love affair with horses started before I could talk. When I was four, we were living on a finca in Buenos Aires. I used to wait for the gauchos to water their horses at our well. I would point and yell 'caballo.' My favorite gaucho would sweep me on to his saddle and gallop across the Pampas. In Kathmandu I took riding lessons from a Ghurka colonel. When people ask me if I ride English or Western I say I ride Ghurka. I continued riding in Turkey, galloping across the Anatolian Steppes fighting off wolves with a twig I used as a riding crop. For ten years I bred, trained and sold Peruvian horses in the Shenandoah Valley. Now I run a herd of 20 horses in the Highlands of Chiapas. Enjoy these photos of my 'family.'