They are probably members of the only western horseriding club in Poland. Only recently has it become relatively easy to purchase western style saddles and tack as well as hats, cowboy boots and other parts of equipment and outfits. People have always seen them in the movies, so they are not so strange. But what seems to be quite new and revolutionary, is the way you work with the horse. Polish tradition, based on German and French style of riding, is quite different.
Polish cowboys share a dream of going to New Mexico to take part in a cattle drive next summer.
But it requires not only money, but also many western skills, which you can't buy. That's why they practice a lot, for instance trying to catch ponies on a rope. It has even become a part of Hubertus celebration procedures every year, since the cowboys began their western work here. And when it is raining, they rush to their club, so they can try their luck in reining - there is no good sand on the manege, so when it rains, it becomes just a muddy kind of surface. Those who don't care for western, leave the manege and go to the forest, but cowboys stay right there hoping that a controlled slide may work as a sudden stop.