Danny Arriola:  

My life after LP has been a remarkable journey for me. After some years in corporate sales, I became a veterinarian technician. I found a calling as a dog obedience/animal behaviorist. During that time I learned about dog sledding from the Tlingkit/Haida natives of British Columbia. So I included 18 years of racing a kennel of 40 sled dogs in Montana, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado and Nevada. In between that time, I met my life partner of 29 years now. Andrew was presented to me in a dream I had in my Junior year, the picture of the person I would spend my life with. Strange because I was in a relationship with Cuca and we had a son and daughter together during our 7 years. Andrew entered my life one day, 14 years later I saw him and the dream I had was exactly as he appeared in it, tall, blond, blue eyed, and in a mountain setting and together we shared the adventures of dog sledding, racing our winning teams around the country. Then the drought came the snows went and so did the races. We both returned to college, Andrew to get his AS degree in Registered Nursing and I my AS degree in Medical Laboratory Technician . Andrew & I bought a lush green and forested 100 acre ranch. We then embarked on successfully raising Arabian horses, breeding, training, selling, showing and competing in Hunter, Jumpers, Show Hack, Dressage, Endurance racing 50 miles and now vaulting ( gymnastics on the back of a moving horse at the trot or canter). Stallions, mares, fillys, colts and geldings. We have recently entered the European market, with sales to Germany. At age 55 I took early retirement to focus on our Arabian Horse business and the honey business that I started in my Freshman year, I expanded that over the past 55 years, working with the African Bee (so called killer bees) as better higher yield producing honey bees. Yes, it comes with liabilities for sure. I had also found a creative skill from my Apache heritage for making beautiful southwestern style silver and turquoise jewelry which PBS once did a feature on me. I had been producing silver art work for 25 years and working in the lab was taking up to much of my time. So at age 55 I retired, we bought a large working cattle ranch and increased our herd of horses. We compete across the country, from Californian to Texas, northward to Wyoming, Nebraska Colorado, Utah and Oklahoma with our horses. Andrew & I show every weekend somewhere in some state with a few weekends off in December. We show in Hunter Pleasure, Hunter Hack, Show Hack, Jumpers, Country English, Dressage and Competitive Trail. For 2 years in a row now, we've captured the Regional Championships, That involves 8 states competing. AZ., NM, CO, NV, UT, TX, WY, NB. *.UPDATE * - 5 / 27 / 2014 - I have won it again, that makes it the 4th year in a row. My Andrew captured the Reserve Championship. We continue to be the top contenders at all our competitive shows, our forte is best in the equine art of Dressage. The graceful equine movement of gaits & transitions with near invisible cues to the horse. **** Update: In 2016 My 2 stallions took the National Championship and Reserve National Championship in Dressage. The current photo is from...Expand for more