In sports, a jockey is one who rides horses in thoroughbred horse racing or steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession. Jockeys are nominated by horse trainers to ride their horses in races, usually for a fee (which is paid regardless of the prize money the horse earns for a race).
Jockeys usually start out when they are young, riding trackwork in the morning for trainers, and entering the riding profession as an apprentice jockey. An apprentice jockey is known as a "bug boy" because the asterisk that follows the name in th ...
A shepherd is one who takes care of sheep, usually in flocks in the fields. Shepherding is one of the oldest professions, beginning some 10,000 years ago in Asia Minor. Sheep were kept for their milk, meat, and especially their wool. Over the next millennia sheep and shepherding spread throughout Eurasia.
Some sheep were integrated in the family farm along with other animals such as pigs and chickens. To maintain a large herd, however, the sheep must be able to move from pasture to pasture, this required the development of a pr ...
A buttero is a shepherd in the region of Maremma, in Tuscany and in the bordering zones of the Northern Latium.
The buttero habitually rides the horse typical of the Maremma, a Maremmano, and tends livestock, especially cattle and sheep. The characteristic saddle is called a bardella. The buttero's attire consists of coarse cotton pants, leggings, a velvet jacket and a black hat. He protects himself from the rain with a large mantle called the "pastràno". He carries the "mazzarella", ...
Prior to Spanish settlement in 1548, the Llanos was occupied by indigenous groups. Andalucian monks established settlements close to Indian villages and accomplished conversion through a mixture of persuasion and force.
The Spaniards started to graze cattle on the grasslands of the llanos and the Llanero were originally a mixture of Spaniards and Indians. Indeed, Llaneros still use many terms dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. From 1640 to 1790, outlaw slaves lived in cumbes or outlaw slave communities ...
Cattle form an important part of Llanero culture. There are 12 million cattle on the llano. During the year, the Llanero have to drive cattle over large amounts of ground. During the winter wet season, the Llanero have to drive the cattle to higher ground as the poor drainage of the plains means that the annual floods are extensive. Coversely, they have to drive the cattle towards wet areas during the dry summer. The Llanero show their skills in coleo competitions similar to rodeos where ...
The Spanish also used the term to describe the nomadic tribes of the Llano Escotado of Texas and New Mexico and was applied to the Apache in particular.
In Spanish, The Lone Ranger is known as el Llanero Solitario.
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