Journal of Alta California

Galloping to The Vanishing Point

Sally Peacock halts the riding lesson to allow a doe and her two spotted fawns to pass through the sandy arena. Three 10-year-old girls astride their horses pull back the reins and wait patiently. Beyond the ring, a coyote noses along the fenceline searching for prey. Several horses munch grass in a nearby pasture. Just past them, hundreds of acres of mixed scrub and high grass ramble across a bluff that plunges over a

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