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A Wild West Weekend | Yvonne Van Dongen | New Zealand, North Island, Auckland

Pounding surf, galloping horses and a rugged coastline fringed with subtropical forests are standard ingredients of many a romantic creation. The beaches here are splendid and savage

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Automatic Horses | Jasper Winn | Argentina, Cordoba, Los Potreros

The Peruano Paso is famous for its ‘pace,’ and this smooth gait, I realised, made it the equivalent of a luxury saloon car with independent suspension, cruise control and, for all I knew, quadraphonic CD-changer

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Ballroom Dancing for Horses | Jasper Winn | Austria, Vienna, Vienna

Today the Spanish Riding School still teaches and performs Renaissance haute école in a tradition that has been passed by practical instruction from one generation of riders to the next through nearly 450 years

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Camargue Ride | Jasper Winn | France, Riviera Cote d'Azur, Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer

The Confrérie de Gardians de Taureaux et du Cheveaux Camargue – the brotherhood of the horsemen who worked these lands – was founded in 1512

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Horse-Racing in Dubai | Tim Elliott | United Arab Emirates, Dubai, Dubai City

The jockeys, most of whom were from the UK or Australia, looked even smaller than normal, like luminous little Gobstoppers tacked on to the animals’ backs

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Riding in Spain | Jim Keeble | Spain, Catalunya, Pyrenees

The countryside we ride into is gently spectacular. These ancient volcanic foothills are thickly wooded, laced with medieval villages and countless paths devoid of people

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The Divine Horses of Rajasthan | Julie Miller

In Shekhawati, to be a wealthy white tourist is a curiosity; to be a visitor on horseback is a miracle, a truly fascinating sight

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The Tissa Horse Festival | Barnaby Rogerson | Morocco, Northern Morocco, Tissa

During the horse festival Tissa becomes a vision of medieval splendour, like a precious illuminated manuscript brought back to life

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Transylvanian Horses | Jasper Winn | Romania, Transylvania (Central), Brasov

It was foggy and damp, but we saddled up the two stallions with Australian stock saddles, whose high cantles and front of leg ‘poleys’ gave good support on mountain ascents and descents

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Wild Rose Ranch | Martin Li | Canada, British Columbia, Rocky Mountains

Having not ridden for several years I was relieved as well as a little amused when our first horse-related duty on arriving at Wild Rose Ranch was to watch a video entitled 'Which end does the hay go in?'

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