Paso de la Muerte etc - la charreria

 Salvete Omnes,

a short entry with plenty of different iconography -  the subject being the equestrian symbol of Mexico (United States of Mexico): la charreria.  

Spanish vaquero riding a la gineta pursuing will, cimarron, bulls

when Spanish horsemen, the conquistadors, brought  their Spanish or Iberian horses, equestrian  traditions and cattle with cattle ranching, the new world's equestrian traditions were born. 

During the centuries of News Spain (or colonial Mexico) these vaqueros or horsemen tending cattle and horses developed their tack &  saddles,  traits and characteristics, that  eventually brought the development of la charreria, el charro (horseman) and la charra (horsewoman) of today's Mexico.

Some iconography - from the XVIII century onwards

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finally, el paso de la Muerte - or a particularly courageous show of skill, daring and horsemanship when a charro riding in el lienzo charro (arena) 

attempts of jump from his saddled horse onto a back of a unbroken horse and ride around the arena astride  this mount bareback until the new mount stops or he loses his seat and fells to the sand of el lienzo. Dangerous and yet spectacular feat. 

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the modern Charreria riders use native Mexican horse or the Azteca, or American Quarter Horse

el lazo or the lasso (arkan in Polish)

Valete