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Tony Thompson is all business this warm morning. He and a dozen other Alisal Guest Ranch wranglers have only a couple of hours to catch and saddle 63 horses for guests going on this morning's breakfast ride. As the horses are brought in from the fields, Thompson checks them over before scribbling notes on a whiteboard outside the barn. With the help of Jake Copass, a cowboy who came to the Alisal in 1946, when the 10,000-acre spread in the Santa Ynez Valley first opened, 9-year-old Tristan climbs into the saddle. But Tristan's horse, Biscuit, ignores his command to giddyup. "Make out like you're mad at your mom and give your pony a little whack in the rear," Copass whispers. It seems improbable--a 10,000-acre riding and roping ranch occupying the expensive real estate that is contemporary Southern California. And yet this region holds three long-established guest ranches: the Alisal and nearby Circle Bar B Guest Ranch, both in Santa Barbara County, and Rankin Ranch in Kern County. A fourth recently joined their ranks: Rancho Temescal in Ventura County. The horsey quartet give city and suburb slickers a chance to play cowpoke for a week or a weekend.
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