String of thefts at Colorado horse ranches has stables on alert

PARKER — The setting at Mile High Horse Ranch on a typical day is downright bucolic, the quiet barely broken by the steady clip-clop of horses being led from paddock to pasture, the gentle murmur of trainers coaxing riders along, or an occasional whinny from the barn. 

This story first appeared in The Outsider, the premium outdoor newsletter by Jason Blevins.

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But that tranquility was disturbed on Dec. 3, when two people smashed the windows of two locked cars that were parked on this private property, a typical boarding stable setup of ranch house, barn, corrals and sheds that barely stands out from the sea of 5-acre ranchettes that surround it just a…