MOLALLA -- The quiet man in the barn with worn hands and a shy grin is near the end of a long journey. On Sept. 29, Pedro Munoz Sanchez, 45, will sit high on the back of one of his Andalusian horses, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I wasn’t born into any of this – the horses, the land, or the relentless Levante wind that barrels through the ...

YORBA LINDA When Valerie Vilardi and her daughter Alexandria traveled to Spain to find their first Andalusian eight years ago, they rode 150 horses and brought home two. Since then, the Vilardis have ...

“Do you want to piaffe?” said the handsome Spaniard to my right. It’s not often a girl gets an offer like that. And it only took a tap of the whip to make the stallion move. The only eyebrows raised, ...

Ganaderos, or local cowboys, work the edges of the roundup. The thrum of a guitar draws me into a swath of forest where Spanish cowboys are gathering under a golden dusk. Around 30 men pause in a ...