“There is nothing so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse,” the saying goes. Jeff Skelton would be the first to tell you that’s true.

This burly cowboy with the boots, hat and dusty jeans, the one who looks like he just stepped out of Zane Grey’s novel “Riders of the Purple Sage”? You’d never guess he was born and raised in suburban Orlando, spent most of his professional career in an office as an executive in the fitness and wellness industry. He didn’t actually start riding horses until he was in his 40s, but he always felt the calling.

“I always felt comfortable in boots and a cowboy hat — way before I ever had the chance to saddle up on a horse. There is just something special about the cowboy spirit that I connected with,” says Skelton, who now holds the title of o

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