Jeff Sanders on the Vaquero Horsemanship,Let Your Horse Go Forward, Mar. 12, 2020 by Horseware
Mary Kitzmiller is joined by Jeff Sanders to talk about the Vaquero, or California, bridle horse tradition. In the Q&A section, she tackles the touchy topic of letting your horse go forward, even if you don’t want to.
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Vaquaro was/is the lowest, most uneducated form of cow worker. What word/term needs to be used is Caballero. This mis understanding of Spanish style horsemanship (classical training) really needs to get on track with real rather then made up. Let’s step away from made up hats and costumes and get to the real of classical horsemanship. Definition: Vaqueros were proverbial cowboys—rough, hard-working mestizos who were hired by the criollo caballeros to drive cattle between New Mexico and Mexico City, and later between Texas and Mexico City. … “Vaquero is a transliteration of the words ‘cow’ and ‘man