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“There were certain things I’ve wanted in life since I was a little girl,” Deb told me. She wanted horses, cowboys (“Well, a cowboy”), cats, and otters. She also wanted to be very rich—like most of us who have been horse mad at some point. Now, she says, she has realized that she is rich, not in monetary terms, but in everything else. Her fluffy cuddly cat Pumpkin is the most loved of a long line. She found the cowboy of her dreams when she met Eitan, and she’s got a pasture full of beautiful golden horses. She has even had otters; they have moved on now, but the creek was full of them a few years back.

It is easy to understand why Debbie feels rich. Wolf Creek Ranch in Grass Valley, California, seems like a small paradise when you walk around, visit the horses, and listen to the running water, but as the headquarters of Cowboy Dressage, it is also a busy place. When she is not riding, Deb sits at her computer or on the phone, organizing and promoting Cowboy Dressage. Her role is interpreting the vision, she says. “Eitan only wanted to ride, and I nagged and nagged at him about the rest!” Deb has been in many ways the business partner to Eitan the artist, only recently has he become an enthusiastic participant in the sharing and promotion of Cowboy Dressage. It is hard work, but also the fulfillment of a dream for both, and Deb loves it.

Born in 1987, Holiday Compadre (Carlyle Command x Holiday Temptress) became the first ambassador of Cowboy Dressage, and an icon in the Morgan Horse show world. A beautiful colt with the strength of character that makes a horse at first a challenge and ultimately a pleasure to train, Compadre grew into a stallion as charismatic as he was talented.