In the back corner of the cavernous livestock barn at the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, 31-year-old Daniel Franco runs through a mental checklist of his wardrobe. He has his crisp, white shirt; a cropped suede jacket; fitted pants under leather chaps with a hand-tooled floral design; ankle-high riding boots; and a chocolate-brown satin moño, or bowtie. In a moment, he’ll head over to his dark bay quarter horse and tick off the final item, the last thing he’ll don before he’s ready to ride. “When you put your hat on,” he says, “that’s the signal: It’s go time.”It’s a brisk afternoon in late February, and Franco and his team, Rancho HG, are buzzing around the grounds, gearing up for the charreada in the…The post The National Sport of Mexico Is the Most Stylish of All appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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