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Archive Home > 2007 > July > 25 > Braiding through the night

Braiding through the night

The job of the braider is one of the quirky tasks behind the scenes of a horse show

By Whitney Malkin / The Bulletin
July 25, 2007

As darkness falls on Bend’s J Bar J Ranch, Gay Sheridan’s workday is just beginning. Her fingers blur as she plaits the dark chestnut horse mane — left, right, twist, repeat.

Illuminated by floodlights, Sheridan is perched atop a three-rung stepladder in a rusting....

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