Riding Barranca
In this remarkable one-year journal, skilled horsewoman and adventurer Laura Chester brings us into her world, where we deeply connect with the earth and its seasons, with beauty and sometimes danger....
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Best Summer Read for Horse Lovers: Review Calls RIDING BARRANCA “A Beautiful, Special Book. It Will Touch Everyone Who Reads It.”
The following review of Laura Chester’s new book RIDING BARRANCA is by acclaimed poet and author Lyn Lifshin. Her many books include several about racehorses, including The Licorice Daughter: My Year with Ruffian; Barbaro:Beyond Brokenness; and coming in 2014, Secretariat: The Red Freak, the Miracle, all from Texas Review Press. Also forthcoming is a chapbook, Lost […]
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Lightness in the Bridle vs. Lightness in the Forehand
Horses are different and they are certainly different in their sensitivities in the mouth, and consequently, in the way they respond to the bit. You may see a horse later in his career and see that he...
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Laura Chester
In RIDING BARRANCA, a remarkable new book from Trafalgar Square Books, author Laura Chester has explored and described her experiences riding and searching—for resolution, for the ability to forgive...
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