Cuban Exports: Rum, Cigars, and…Fancy Show Jumpers
The Associated Press reports that Cuba has added another luxury product to its traditional export list of fine rum and fancy cigars—Dutch Warmblood show jumpers. Colts and fillies are purchased as yearlings from the Netherlands, trained at government-sponsored equine enterprises, and auctioned off to buyers mostly from Latin-America. Fidel Castro’s communist government banned horse racing, […]