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| Arturo Ruiz Loredo on Oct. 18, 1953 |
Who would have imagined that back in 1953 a charreria performance was co-ed. It didn't last long however, just a few years, as the boys began practicing other charreria sports, like roping and tumbling cattle over.
That left room for more girls to join and that's when the escaramuza became a female affair.
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Arturo in Tepeji del Rio, Mexico. 2009
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Today a professional horse trainer in Tepeji del Rio, Hidalgo, Mexico, Arturo Ruiz Loredo was just 5-yeras-old when he rode alongside his two sisters Graciela and Maria Eugenia. The three other kids were from the Camacho Elorriaga family. Arturo reflected back on how it all started, with this comment:
"The escaramuza was not something that was preconceived, it wasn't an idea that any particular person had who said we're going to do this and that, something planned. The escaramuza evolved like life."
- Arturo Ruiz Loredo
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Arturo at his horse training center in Tepeji del Rio, Mexico. 2009
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The following video is an audio-slide show about the Escaramuza sport, featuring an interview with Arturo, by photographer Leslie Mazoch.
The below video is a collection of historical photographs of this first team, paired with an interview of Guadalupe "Coco" Camacho, one of the three girls on the team.
