Graciela Ruiz Loredo - Founding Member of the Escaramuza

Graciela Ruiz Loredo gives a riding class in Oaxaca, Mexico in July 2012.

Graciela Ruiz Loredo was seven-years-old when destiny put her and her two siblings in the first escaramuza team.

That was back in 1953, alongside her younger sister Maria Eugenia and little brother Arturo, with three other kids from the Camacho family..

Graciela's parents also encouraged them to bullfight! The style done while mounted on horses, called "rejoneo."

Graciela is still a horse lover. In Oaxaca, Mexico, she gives private classes to those who want to learn to ride.

Graciela, 7, left, Maria Eugenia, 6, center, and Arturo, 5, pose for photos at the Ex-Hacienda de Cuapa on the south side of Mexico City in 1953, the same year the escaramuza was invented.

Watch the following video featuring historical images 

of the first escaramuza, 

narrated by fellow founding member

Guadalupe "Coco" Camacho Elorriaga.