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Royal Lipizzaner Stallions in Florida
By Saundra Amrhein
Myakka City, Fla. – A few hours after the sun burns morning dew from the grass, Gabriella Herrmann walks through the stables, taking a final look over her stallions to make sure they’re ready.
In knee-high black boots and riding pants, she pats the hard muscles of their white shoulders and flanks.
Herrmann, 58, feels their nervous energy and a connection with each animal – a connection her father long held and that took her years to earn.
It’s a connection also sought, at least briefly, by the hundreds of people flocking this way.
What the arriving spectators are about to see, Herrmann tells them moments later under a brilliant blue sky and warm sun, is “living art and poetry in motion.”
By 10 a.m.
on this morning, more than 300 visitors from across the state and nation have come to watch the Royal Lipizzan Stallions at their winter home on this 25-acre ranch 22 miles east