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Manoel's farm, behind a slum, covers an area of 10,000 square metres and has 40 horses, being 26 Arabian Horses.However, Manoel's horses are just nine.
The others belong to other people who leave their animals at the farm for training by Manoel.
"My wife and I bring children from the region to teach them how to ride and train horses.
In exchange, they help me wash and groom the horses," explained Manoel, who is 56 years old and only teaches children who are over the age of eight.
Concrete proof of the efforts of Manoel are the over 100 trophies that the children have already won.
Young José Luis Arranjo, named Luizinho, 20 years old, started riding at Manoel's farm, at the age of eight, and has already been Brazilian champion in barrel racing and pole bending competitions 10 times on Arabian horse Irion Mc Coy.
Apart from that, he also broke the world record in the three-barrel racing competition, in 2002, with a time of 18.559 s...
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