Meet the Real Cowgirls of the East Coast

Tucked a little more than an hour south from New York City are the bucolic grounds of the Horse Park of New Jersey in Allentown, New Jersey. Here, the air no matter where you turn smells, well, like horse. "It's fresh, actually. A nice clean scent," says one female rider with camouflage print cowboy boots. She's waiting outside of the barn holding the women's barrel racing competition, a rodeo event that came about in the early 1930s and started as a women-only sport. Inside, the racers whip aro...