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BAYARD FOX, founder of Equitours, has ridden since early boyhood. After graduating from Yale, he traveled widely in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. He has been leading rides at his own Bitterroot Ranch since 1971 and started guiding rides in Kenya with his wife, Mel in 1980. Bayard has been organizing and taking new rides ever since. He has tested scores of rides on six continents and many American states. Few can equal his long experience in leading riding tours and in assessing the qualities of various programs. Bayard rides nearly every day with his clients at the Bitterroot during their four-month season, which keeps him in close touch with their reactions and wishes.
MEL FOX was raised on a farm in East Africa and rode from an early age. She attended university in England where she spent some time fox hunting, and worked for five years in wildlife parks in Kenya. For the last 20 years she has been running the riding program at her Bitterroot Ranch where she and Bayard have a herd of 170 horses which is unquestionably one of the best in the world for this purpose. Many of these horses have been bred and trained on the ranch. Mel is a certified riding instructor and has also taken many rides on six continents. Her broad international equestrian experience has enabled her to integrate riding techniques from around the world with the best Western traditions.
Audio Podcast:
Mel talks with Anna Twinney about her youth riding on her family
farm at the foot of Kilimanjaro.
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