Riders descend upon the California Ranch Company in Temecula for the Outback Cuttings competition, June 18-21. Valley News/Shane Gibson photo
Bob Brown, the new owner of California Ranch Company in Temecula, sat in the bleachers Saturday, June 20, to watch the competition happening in front of him for the first time in several days. Before Saturday, Brown was running around the sprawling ranch making sure the sold-out Outback Cuttings event which began two days earlier and ran through Sunday was running smoothly and the participants were happy. Brown was thrilled to see it all coming together nicely and to see the animals competing. “It’s a livestock exhibition show, and in a sense, horses can’t exercise themselves, they can’t care for or feed themselves,” Brown said. “These are performance horses, so they have to be worked. What we’re here to do is make sure that they stay, like athletes, in the bes
