Archive for: October, 2009

Lady Knight Rules the Day

Hankins demonstrates her ability with a sword (above) and a spear (below) riding her Azteca gelding Casanova. (Photos by Alan Nimrod)

Most little girls enjoy fairy tales and dressing up like fairy princesses, but for Virginia Hankins carriages and fairy wands could never stack up against powerful, fast-moving horses and knights with lances and shields. “I did have my purple phase,” she admits, but the Simi Valley resident says she was more influenced by Tamora Pierce’s [...]

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