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So, early morning on a hilltop in the interior of Catalina Island, 200-800mm Canon in hand, with sun at his back, Pacific Ocean to the left and silhouetted against a distant hillside towards the Isthmus...a hummingbird perched upon a Lemonade Berry tree just waiting for a glamour shot.

The continuing history of Arabian Horses on Santa Catalina Island

If I get Mike a Christmas present and subsequently get the benefits, is it really a present for Mike or is it for me? Hmmm. Seems like the perfect example of a TeamTrox sort of thing. In this case Mike has very happily upgraded to a new Canon camera with some nifty new accessories and (as I often do) I set him a last minute holiday challenge, So from Mike and Kath at El Rancho Escondido we wish you the very best of holidays. How do we celebrate it here on Catalina Island? I

…Lived a small group of Arabian horses. They arrived from the East, their descendants traveled the West and eventually all over the world! In 1963, trainer Joe Dawkins won the first National award for Catalina Island Arabians in Dallas, Texas. No one knows for certain how that trophy traveled back to the Trophy Room at El Rancho Escondido, but what I can tell you is that the newest trophy coming from an Arabian National Championship show was hand carried from Tulsa to Cata

Hello from Team Trox in Tulsa! Mike and I will be (again!) focused on the Pavilion Arena and Trail Semi-Finals today and then this evening we'll move over to the Mustang Arena for the first of the Ranch Riding classes. First up was the In-Hand Trail for the Adult Amateurs followed by the Semi-Finals in the Half-Arabian and Purebred Trail Open and then after that, the Half-Arabian and Purebred English Trail for the AAOTR group. And then, sometime after 4:30 will be Showmanship