Dan Steers working Dan James' Liberty team in Lexington, Kentucky (Image courtesy Double Dans Horsemanship).
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t’s easy to look at someone who’s arrived smack in the middle of the equestrian world’s spotlight without
fully appreciating the winding, and
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sometimes difficult road that got them there. That tongue-in-cheek saying ‘it takes ten years to become an overnight success’ is more often true than not. Stretch that out by a few extra years, and you have some idea of Dan Steers’ journey to the top. To begin at the beginning, Dan didn’t come from a horse loving family. In fact
One half of Double Dan Horsemanship, Dan Steers talks to AMANDA MAC about his journey from a Perth suburb to the international stage, and his fascinating philosophy on horses at liberty.
he had little to no interest in horses while growing up in Kalamunda, a town to the east of Perth, Western Australia. But purely by chance all that changed when Dan was 14. He and his classmates were away on a school camp, and as part of the adventure went for a trail
