It usually takes two or three days of long rides to accustom the rump to the saddle.

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If you are lured by the idea of horse riding in the surrounding splendour, a handful of farms can get you in the saddle for anything from an hour-long trot to a week-long wilderness adventure.

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And while acknowledgement of that role was for too long as invisible as African-Americans in the saddle over the last 100 years, a number of books in the last decade have explored, recorded, and honored the contributions of Murphy, Winkfield, and their contemporaries.

FORBES: A brief history of black jockeys in the United States