CARNDUFF - Earlier this year, the Truco Trick Riders came into being. Although the training began in May, special saddles were required but they didn’t arrive until July.
Amber Miller, a professional trick rider from Wainwright, Alta., and a member of the well-known Graham Sisters who have entertained throughout Canada and the United States, has been training two local riders, Bailey Steeves and Jordanna White, as well as Shayda King from Corning.
Truco is the Spanish word for trick and on Aug. 31, Bailey and Jordanna showed the town of Carnduff some of the trick rides they have learned. This was Jordanna’s first performance and Bailey’s second. Bailey made her debut in Manor.
There are many moves in trick riding and a number of them were demonstrated. The crowd witnessed one-foot stands, touchdowns, fenders and reverse fenders, the running man, a stirrup-over-horn, the superman and the hippodrome, even though they have been training for just a few months.
Jordanna learned to ride a horse before learning to walk. Bailey was a little older; she first started riding when she was five.
Trick riding may be something new for these young women, but horse riding definitely isn’t.
