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[j0them0971]

Ok, trying ETG A G A I N. maybe this time it will work? Anyway here are my babies:

Farol Picante III (Farol) - Andalusian/PRE

Perks:

- Fun to ride

- Very responsive

- Sweet and loving, very affectionate <3

- GORGEOUS and handsome

- Rewarding to train/work with

Quirks:

- Has bad days (like all of us) and is toxic about it

- Stamina is lower than desirable (thus making dressage kinda hard/stressful)

- Eats a LOT

- Knows he's gorgeous and used it to his advantage

Ok next horse:

Bella's Stella Luna (Luna) - Selle Français

Perks:

- Very pretty

- Jumper prospect!

- Purebred

- Very smart

- Has some training but can grow a LOT more

- Pretty responsive

Quirks:

- When she gets tired, she acts like I'm "punishing" or "being mean to" her (I'm not) by putting her head down and ears to the sides

- Hates Farol

- Hard-mouthed beyond comprehension

- HUGE turning circle

- Shitty gaits

- Never wants to extend/collect and only does so begrudgingly or out of spite

- Eats more than Farol

- Probably knows she might go on to achieve greatness but is too lazy to

Ok so that just about wraps it up for my new ETG adventures with my glorious children. I'll keep the hellsite posted on this (and Luna, too lol)

[muskokafarm]

Muskoka Farm Pre Training

Muskoka Farm pre training is a world class facility offering breaking, pre-training, spelling and agistment. Located in Wisemans Ferry NSW, the 280 acre pristine property is surrounded by national parks and natural bushland. The equine set-up includes a registered AQIS quarantine cottage and facilities.

Previously owned by the Lapointe Syndicate (Robert Sangster, Millie Fox and Bob Lapointe), the farm became known for its Nebo Lodge stable which ended Tommy Smith’s 33 year reign as Sydney Champion Trainer. To know more about Pre Training, visit the Muskoka Farm website or call (02)45663106.

The Thoroughbred breeding industry is a significant contributor to the Australian and Victorian economies, with stallion fees, sales profits and racehorses themselves making substantial contributions. Unfortunately, the industry is hampered by cultures and practices that compromise horse welfare.

Racing equines are fed limited forage to reduce bulk in the gastrointestinal tract and likely reduce speed, confined to stables for 23 hours per day, have gastric ulcers, and have negligible direct contact with conspecifics [29]. Furthermore, the one-directional nature of race training increases loading of the leading front foot and may contribute to asymmetry in gaits such as the canter [68].

Further, wastage (the attrition from industry participation) is high. This is a result of factors including a lack of prize money for champions, trainers’ incentives to focus on their fastest horses and career-threatening injuries. A traceability system that reveals a horse’s journey throughout its life could be a valuable tool to help address these issues and enhance overall sustainability.

Thoroughbred racing is one of the most popular types of horse races. It involves a jockey riding on the back of a horse to win a race. Thoroughbred races are conducted all over the world. The most famous races are the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes. These races are collectively known as the Triple Crown.

The most important characteristics of a thoroughbred horse are courage and determination. They also have long legs and a lean body. Their heads should be well proportioned and chiseled with wide-set intelligent eyes. The head should be carried low on a long neck.

Catherine has extensive experience training Thoroughbreds. With an exclusive barn of 50 stalls at Woodbine and her own private family farm with lush paddocks North of Toronto she has a full range of facilities to help bring out the best in your horses. She trains mainly client owned horses which gives her interaction and communication with owners, which is a key element to success.

The thoroughbred industry contributes significantly to the Victorian and Australian economies, with stallion fees, sales profits and racehorses themselves all making significant contributions. In turn, these industries support thousands of jobs in transport, fodder, breeding and veterinary services.

The one-of-a-kind Muskoka Farm in Wisemans Ferry, New South Wales is being sold by Inglis Rural Property. It has been in operation for half a century and is considered to be a world class horse spelling and training facility.

The farm is a two-hour drive north of Sydney and features a 2400m crusher dust track, a 2000m grass track for pace work and an equine pool. The property also includes five stable barns with 58 stables, day yards and a high-speed treadmill.

All prospective Bidders/Purchasers are urged to carefully examine horses in which they have an interest (personally, or through Agents or veterinarians of their choice) prior to bidding, as per the terms and conditions set out in Condition NINETY-FOURTH.

Thoroughbred horses are often used as sports horses, and they are especially sought after by those looking to participate in dressage competitions. They are also popular as family riding horses and polo ponies, and the smaller ones can be ridden by young children.

Located in Gunderman, about two hours north of Sydney, Muskoka Farm is home to one of Australia’s leading pre training and spelling facilities. It has a capacity for 200 horses, five stable barns and 27 day yards, plus 10 large fully fenced spelling paddocks. It is operated by trainer Catherine Kingfield and her husband Todd Phillips, and more than 75 percent of their stable is made up of client owned horses.

The horses have access to a crusher dust track, grass track for pace work and an equine pool. They are also able to enjoy a natural environment with plenty of pastures, forest trails and quiet country roads. Inglis Rural Property is handling the sale of the one-of-a-kind property. To know more about Pre Training, visit the Muskoka Farm website or call (02)45663106.

[cavalreal]

Alejandro – A Black Spanish Stallion

 Black Spanish Beauty

We found our first black PRE Andalusian stallion Alejandro as a one year old foal, in the least likely of places. Bred in the cold North by one of the first Swedish PRE breeders, and from some of the oldest and almost extinct Spanish bloodlines, we brought him back to the motherland.

Back on the shores of the Guadalquivír river in Andalusia, Southern Spain, the local expert horsemen would stop short at the sight of him, exclamating over his classical beauty.

Some of those most exquisite Spanish looks risk getting lost in the modern PRE sport horse lines, but Alejandro has all the qualities we like to see in our horses: Nobility, presence and beauty.

In our own PRE sport horse breeding program, we strive to bring the best of the old Spanish blood into a line of modern, highly functional sport horses.

[dressageiberians]

Tall PRE Andalusian Dressage Prospect, 3 Years

Tall PRE Andalusian dressage prospect for sale in Spain. Grey PRE Andalusian stallion, the son of a Reserve Champion of Spain, and nephew of an international PRE Grand Prix horse. His character is calm and friendly, with much expression and intelligence. Excellent conformation, with a perfect back and strong legs and hooves. Expected to be around 170 cm / 16.3 hh, he has three good gaits, including a very good walk and a fantastic canter. Recommended for FEI dressage or the breeding of PRE dressage or morphology horses.

Breed: Pura Raza Española (PRE). Registered in the LG-ANCCE breed registry. No piro. 

Age in photo: 3 years

[livalataire]

Hello 2021 and welcome to all of you people out there. I’m Mel, a German design student and horse lover who's absolutely passionate about writing, reading and art. This page is dedicated to my virtual animals and is Sims 3 role play based. All stories, events and characters here are created for story telling and solely for the purpose of having fun. Anything written below “[ROLE PLAY]” is based on my own imagination and anything above are personal words from me. I love chatting with the world, so if you have anything on your mind talk to me in German or English as my Chinese is a bit rusty, though I‘m able to understand a portion. But for now let’s dive in… [ROLE PLAY] Hello fellow equestrians. I’m Liv. I recently moved back to Germany after having spend many years in the US. This is a photo taken by my younger sister after my horses and me finally arrived back home. It was a long and exhausting journey and for sure nothing I want to repeat soon. So for now I decided to move back to my parents equestrian center “Alataire Park” instead of venturing out to find my own place, but who knows where life will lead us… Now you may be wondering who those furry friends of mine are. I’ve been growing up with horses and I could never imagine being without them, but sadly they come and go just like any other living creature. I’ve gained and lost many friends over time, but the one who’s been there for me the most and longest is my beautiful black Friesian stallion Andiamo. My mom used to say "there’s only one horse in this lifetime and any other that can capture your love and give it back with it’s entire soul. And most people never find that one friend they call their heart horse even if they walk a thousand lives.” I’m lucky as I found my best friend at the age of 14. He’s been with me since the day he was born and will be with me til his last. Embarcadero (Neo) is the stunner next to Andiamo. A PRE gelding from Spain. He’s a great dressage prospect they said when I bought him all those years ago. What I enjoy the most with my horses though is the fun we have. To be honest I’ve never been a big competitor, but we are on a good path training for (as we call it in Germany) L* . Aviador (Avi) is the newest member of my little herd. I rescued him a year ago and even though many said he will never fully recover from the trauma he endured I can proudly say that he’s already doing better. He’s still a very young green horse who needs a lot of attention and love as he definitely lets his temperament of a Thoroughbred shine through, but we’re working on it. ^^ Last, but not least Escador (Eso) a Warmblood mix who’s definitely the most patient one of the bunch. I adore his gentle heart and cannot be prouder of my little herd leader. Fun fact about him that still surprises me to this day is the fire with which this gentle giant flies over jumps. He for sure was a bird in his previous life. ^^ Well that’s all for now. I cannot wait to share my story with you and hope you enjoyed the start of this journey. 

[sso-noodlelord]

Introducing ⤵

Soleil (soh-LA) | SEC Hazy Dreams | 9yo PRE x mare | Dressage Prospect / Trails

Picked up as a young horse by Allison for a fun side project to train and resell later. By luck or fortune the sweet natured young mare, much too quickly charmed herself into Allison’s life permanently. Not wanting to wast a talented horses potential in the ring they begrudgingly re-entered the show world.  Only for a few shows however before passing their reins to someone else to show them, keeping herself in the background. Preferring to taking them on trail rides which tested their nimble feet and mind to stay focused on the task at hand.

[olympictickets]

Olympic Eventing: Swiss Land ‘Final’ Tokyo Slot, But Team Chances Still Out There

Switzerland claimed the last Olympic team place for Olympic 2020 at the FEI Eventing Nations Cup final at Boekelo in the Netherlands on October 13th. Their squad has been coached since the winter by Andrew Nicholson and it certainly shows. They finished the best of the teams in the overall Nations Cup rankings not already bound for Tokyo Olympic.

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The Tokyo factor added an extra frisson to Boekelo’s traditionally lively end-of-season party. But Boekelo might not quite be the Tokyo last-chance, because “qualification” has a strange interpretation in equestrianism. You can be qualified AND ineligible simultaneously.

Despite all the format manipulation aimed at admitting new countries, Olympic hopefuls still have to meet the Minimum Eligibility Requirement (MER) before occupying the place they have supposedly clinched. And the MER deadline for the team contest – a minimum of three riders of prescribed competence – is approaching like an express train: December 31st.

For newbies China and Thailand, it’s a case of so near and yet so far! Those two countries won their region’s quota place at a special competition in Saumur, France in May, amid much fanfare from the FEI. But the competition was staged at the old two-star/new three-star level. Rather less public attention was drawn to enormous “ask” of now mastering the next level up in a matter of months: the MER requires one completion including a cross-country clear, at the new five-star long format, or two at the new four-star, a long and a short.

While I may have missed something on the FEI database, it looks like two Chinese eventers have obtained the MER so far, the experienced Alex Hua Tian who ran as an individual at Beijing 2008, and Liang Ryuji. Thailand has just one, Weerapat Pitakanonda – both he and Liang secured their MERs in under five weeks at their first four-star attempts in Europe this summer and, it has to be said, did so fairly comfortably. China has a further three rider’s half-way there with four-star short qualifications, and Thailand one.

There are 13 remaining opportunities to obtain Olympic MERs worldwide, largely at events in the Americas and Antipodes. Riders are now prohibited from chasing MERs within 24 days of starting a “Long” CCI cross-country or within 10 days of a “Short.” That is a new stipulation, preventing horses being over-run at last-minute competitions which have had a strange way of appearing in the calendar before previous Games.

But can China and Thailand, in all seriousness, achieve this? And if so, given the precarious nature of Eventing, can they feasibly keep four horses fit and well to start in Tokyo Olympic from such a minute pool of participants? China has invested all its effort in the pre-selected six based in Europe this year.

So at least one team place is likely to be back in the pot soon. Who benefits will be decided by the special Olympic rankings table – most likely northern European. The FEI will reallocate if needed by February 17th. Canada is maybe just a notch too far down this list. However, the top two competitors from the Group D Olympic Eventing ranking list will be invited to compete. The list is currently topped by Karl Slezak and Colleen Loach, but Holy Jacks-Smither is on her way to Les Etoiles de Pau CCI5*-L in hopes of improving her ranking.

I chatted about this with Alex Hua Tian, who seems pretty sanguine about China’s prospects for Olympic 2020 and looks at the long-term. The mere possibility of a team presence has, he says, already piqued interest at the national level, and if they don’t make Tokyo Olympic, the European experience has stood China’s embryo team in good stead for a crack at Paris 2024. He also reminded me that it took Japan (third in the Boekelo Nations Cup final) two Olympic cycles to develop the strength and depth to be competitive in time for Olympic 2020. Given the chance, other non-traditional nations can catch up quickly and see off some of the well-aired concerns about the dilution of quality.

Meanwhile, Boekelo’s customized version of the Olympic three riders/no drop-score system was unexpectedly entertaining. At least it seemed so to me compared with last year’s trials of the new Olympic 2020 format at Mill street (Ireland) and Strzegom (Poland;) they were so bewildering I thought my head would fall off.

The Boekelo teams all seemed determined to complete their original trio. But I still harbor fears that someone who has been a spectator for half the competition will end up mounting the team podium next year. We saw how real that possibility could be at Boekelo when New Zealand finished fourth out of 12 good squads, despite calling up their substitute after the dressage, having accepted 20 extra penalty points.

Jennie, of course, she is still shown as a non-completion on the individuals’ scoreboard, just the kind of contradiction that will make casual observers glaze over when watching Tokyo Olympic on TV. Diehard fans have been digesting the substitution formula for months, but still probably watched Boekelo with one eye on the “bluffers guides” thoughtfully published by Horse & Hound and Eventing Nation.

Even the FEI’s own press release about Boekelo says the scoring caused a lot of head-scratching! The Boekelo commentators certainly had difficulty trying to distill it to a few words – good luck explaining it on Twitter next year!

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[ramrodd]

What flaws in the ROTC program need to be addressed?

COMMENTARY:

I have deleted a series of responses to Mike Page’s response to his own question.

I never disagree with his ahrgument, per se, especially as far as the advantages his proposal of 2 summer camps are concerned instead of the 4 year program I went through as a liberal arts student majoring in letters and process theology.

The process theology I was getting from RTOC, you dumb fuck. Nothing personal, of course.

The 2 summer camp program he proposes is more fun. I loved summer camp. My only problem was that I had to finish my senior year and my summer camp happened just before the 1968 Democrat Convention which resulted in the police riot the SDS had been designed to create with the 1962 Porort Huron Statement.

Cause and effect. The cause was the Trotsky Insurgence process embedded in the political strategy of the anti-war people. The Trosky Insurgency process is designed to employ sedition and subversion to create the social alienation and polarization that leads to sabotage and violent revolution. The sabotage didn’t really kick in until after Kent State, but the subversion really got traction after Tet ’68 and the SDS began to develop cells recruited to infiltrate the military and professions as active agents in the overthrow of the US government.

I was a Junior at Indiana when Tet hit the campuses. I re a uniform three times a week, looking as strac as I knew how to. I had been on a drill team as a Persishing Rifle and had my dad’s example of what a lifer’s uniform is suppose to look like on the job. I was as squared=away as I could be without having mom come behind me and complete the picture.

I knew Tet was coming. I grew up around headquarters and I was as plugged into the Post Rumor Control as the CG of CONARC. I wasn’t spying: it was osmosis. I got back to campus and everything was hunky-dory, the New Hampshire primaries came off as usual and the gates had open on the run for the white House and, at that moment, not-LBJ was not even a Dark Horse.

1967 was the Summer of Love in a “if you’re going to San Francisco…” flowers in the hair kind of way and Sergeant Pepper had just come out and John McCain had just been shot down. Tet was just about to jump off the Tallihatchie Bridge with Billy Joe McAllister, but Christmas was like the German side in Stalingrad 1942: there was a certain magical thinking that maybe it all had a happy ending if we all just clapped for Tink,

Tet was not the cause of the Chicago Police Riots in 1968, the Port Huron Statement was the cause, if you have any useful acquaintance with process theology, that should be evident to you without too much deliberation, Tet was the seed crystal that set off what amounted a socially supersaturated solution, or critical mass, that had been carefully groomed by the anti-war movement to blow up somewhere, sometime. It only took 6 years to achieve that moment and if the Diem brothers hadn’t been assassinated, the Port Huron Statement would have never gotten any traction.

I watched this stuff happen during a 4 year liberal arts education I was required to attend in order to receive an ROTC commission. ROTC is a direct result of the ideal and the intent of the 2nd Amendment, that is, to ensure for the manpower and mobilization requirements of the federal mandate for the common defense in the original intent of the Founding Fathers that the American Republic would be sustained by citizen-soldiers in the Swiss-Israeli tradition. The 2nd Amendment doesn’t have shit to do with guns: it is entirely a mechanism to supply the worker-patriots to carry the guns. The Civil wWar, on both sides, and First and Second Phases of the World at War was fought by the America citizen soldier, thanks to the 2nd Amendment. My dad got his commision at Indiana. I got mine the same way. We spent 4 years in classroom engagement in the process theology of the military arts and sciences, but the most fun was the practical application of FM 22–5, twice a week.

Just for the record, FM 22–5 comes almost directly from Frederick the Great by way of von Steubin and prior to Jomini. US Army doctrine originates in Prussian staff experience, but is embellished by the French example at Yorktown and the focus on Jomini at the exclusion of Clauswitz until Marshall’s reforms beginning in 1942 and proceeding way beyond any need to reexamine the efficacy of the 4 years ROTC program. It’s not West Point. It’s not intended to be West Point. Or OCS. Or the two-summer camp ROTC program. It is, however, the same intellectual trajectory and learning curve as West Point and that trajectory, combined with the experiential data that has accumulated with the liberal arts program, ensures that the collective unconscious of the US Army is being constantly enriched by the broadest possible universe of high shooling for the dressage of the republican citizen soldier.

Here’s the thing, Mike Page, my impression of you is similar to my impression of Richard Carrier, the evangelical anti-theist and John Bolton and Dumb Ass Don: you’ve never heard a shot fired in anger.

I know you were in the combat arms, but your original profile said you went to Germany instead of Vietnam. You now cite Asia, which means you could have earned a CIB on the DMZ, but you were pretty emphatic that you never got to Vietnam.

Poor you. I wouldn’t have missed Vietnam for the world, and being in GermanY during Vietnam was like a certain kind of Purgatory for someone who had signyd up for a life of derring-do and danger, but we all served the needs of the service, so that’s like Eisenhower, who never go overseas in Phase I.

Vietnam wasn’t a great war, but it was the only war we had.

The other thing I sense in you, Mike Page, is the resentment of an OCS officer without a college degree, going through, for the country-club commission I earned over 4 years and a summer camp. If you are serious about producing the best possible officer to lead soldiers against fire, you should know that everything that happened before you got that rank don’t mean nothing once you get it: how you got there ain’t important. It’s that you showed up and stuck around is all the military requires to begin the process of becoming all you can be.

See, here’s the thing, Mike Page: growing up in the Army, all the chaplains I knew had been combat veterans until I left the Army in 1971. Generally, I’ve done what I can to avoid the military since I left: the prospect of spending time with some lifer like you just makes my skin crawl, even if they have been shot at. But you and Bolton and Richard Carrier share an attitude I never encountered among the chaplains I have known. I saw the same thing being directed at John Kerry by the Swift Boaters and it was an attitude I ran into in the corporate culture from Vietnam-era National Guard pukes, who resented the fact that they had to keep their hair short during a time when getting laid and short hair were not the norm and they blamed Viet vets for their decision to pursue their business careers and not be labeled a long-haired, dope-smoking, anti-war hippy freak in a culture of pro-war business executives. It’s like the military officers who conceived and implemented the All Volunteer Military: they blamed the draftee-citizen solder for the way Vietnam turned out and that it was actually their idea in the first place.

So, if this idea of reforming ROTC represents a big career move for you, my advice to the rest of the world is to ignore it.

There were two coalitions in the Army senior officers during the McNamara tenure in the Pentagon: those who were committed to Marshall’s reforms and what my dad called “Nut Heads”, that is, political opportunists who abandoned the needs of the service in favor of their own ambitions and aligned with the McNamara Whiz Kids and his reforms based on the Harvard management model. These guys were in charge when Tet blew up in LBJ’s face and he dropped out of the race. From 1968 until I got back from Vietnam, these guys were like a Marx brothers meet the 3 Stooges, running around, trying to avoid becoming collateral damage. One of these guys scared me out of a military career in Vietnam, someone with the same crypto-Nazi cognitive organization as Mike Pompeo, Mike Espry and Tom Cotton.

And you. In response to your last reponse in our dialogue, to wit,

>>>Mike Page: “If you had an idea, Tom, it would overwhelm that single brain cell you were born with,….”<<<

You are a retrograde pre-Tet ’68 Nut Head. And the All Volunteer Military seems to be just totally stuffed you guys.

ADDITIONAL COMMENTARY:

How should the U.S. have handled Communist aggression in Vietnam?

You really don’t know shit about much of anything, do you, Mike Page.

Both Korea and Vietnam sit on the trade routes from the oil in the Persian Gulf to Japan and Taiwan, for one thing, and that oil was the reason for our presence on the Pacific Rim and, in no small measure, a factor in Japan’s vision of their Great Co-Prosperity Sphere that compelled the decision to attack Pearl Harbor.

You’ve presented the SDS version of the Oliver Stone version of Vietnam. The actual version is presented, below.

From 1954 until 1962, the MAG-V mission in the Republic of Vietnam was essentially the same as the K-MAG mission in the Republic of Korea: peace keeping and nation building, Both nations were the result of a negotiated partition and, in the case of the Korean Penisula, a cease fire that persists. This was part of George Kennan’s theory of containment and reflected Marshall’s manifesto delivered at Harvard in 1947. The efficacy of this mission can be measured by the present success of the Republic of Korea, and the continuing K-MAG mission.

In 1962, the commie cocksuckers in Hanoi determined to invade RVN and signaled their intent to that end by tossing frags into Saigon movie theaters. I had friends, other Army brats, living in Saigon at the time, and MAG-V evacuated all the dependents in 24 hours in order to clear the deck for general combat and to avoid a reprise of the Phillipines.

After the assassination of the Diem brothers in 1963, America lost the moral legitimacy of its nation building mission and made it impossible to “win” the battle MAG-V was transformed into MAC-V with the mission to conduct a battle of attrition against the Soviet economy by proxy, the subsequent enterprse being a battle in the larger Cold War.

To this end, General Westmoreland was essentially assigned the task of creating the blood sacrifice of the commie cocksuckers on the field of battle that would compel the Kremlin to continue to commit the material support to their ideological clients that would ultimately bankrupt the Soviet economy, which had not begun to fully recover from WWII.

In the final analysis, Vietnam became a contest between Marxism and the Harvard Business model and Marxism won, but, in the larger context, Vietnam was for the Kremlim what Borodino was for Napoleon: a battle they couldn’t afford to fight and a battle they couldn’t afford to lose.

As a direct result of the American War in Vietnam, the Soviet Union is no more. The fact of the matter is, the Domino Theory did, in fact, manifest, regionally, but was contained by what amounted to entropy.

Now, in reference to my commentary on your ROTC essay (Tom Wilson’s answer to What flaws in the ROTC program need to be addressed?) the mistake that the “Nut Heads” in the Pentagon that aligned with McNamara’s agenda made was to NOT proceed at the same time as the “Search and Destroy” element of the post-Diem brothers strategy with the other two legs of a Clauswitzian solution, that is, to equip the RVN military prodigously and to begin the process of “Vietnamization” on pretty much the same model as the ROK Army that served with such distinction in RVN.

As far as providing aid to all of Vietnam, it’s useful to remember that 1954 was the year of the McCarthy Hearings and people were losing their careers for any hint of political intercourse with commie cocksuckers anywhere in the world and Ho Chi Minh was a commie cocksucker who had just supervised the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu. The long haired anti-war hippy freaks of the SDS, and Noam Chomsky, might have found the prospect of providing economic aid to ALL OF VIETNAM appealing, but, well, in 1954, General Ridgeway wasn’t as sanguine of the prospect of success nor inclined to propose the project in the first place.

Just for the record, my self-esteem is perfectly secure. I’ve been dealing with lifers like you since I got off the Freedom Bird in 1971. Just the idea of being around lifers like you makes my skin crawl, but it’s not an impediment to my happiness and personal fulfillment.

[lusitanostud]

Lusitanos that will live up to expectations and why: our yearlings

Performance matters, no matter what the breed.

Breed type matters for both breed characteristics and temperament.

A strong lineage is the best insurance that one can get when buying a dressage prospect.

We all love the Lusitano for it ability to collect, to perform high-school movements and its temperament.  But we also know that not all Lusitanos are created equal.

In Europe right now, there is a line of Lusitanos that are successfully competing in the Northern EU dressage arena. These Lusitanos are endowed with gaits that are spectacular.  Not only with a lot of knee but with extension also.  Because they are Lusitanos and have maintained breed type, they also naturally round and drive from behind. Because of that drive, they have the ability for collection, and an athleticism rarely found in the in WB breeds.  Their walk and canter benefit from this ability to collect also.  These gaits, combined the mind and breed type of the Lusitano make a powerful combination. Unfortunately, these lines are poorly represented in the USA. 

In 2015, we imported semen from the stallion Soberano- the best of the best from these lines.  The video below of Soberano is one of my favorites: 

 If you haven’t seen Soberano’s performance at the WEG in Normandy in 2014, please watch it – you are in for a treat.  Watch: 

We have two Soberano stallions (yearlings) from this breeding, that we have let grow up a little and we are now ready to sell one of them.  Both are talented, athletic, with great minds and are serious Grand Prix potential horses. Soberano –     *His Sire: Hostil (see below)

**Grandsire Xaquiro 

**Grandsire Zico

Soberano represents the best of these lines.  Soberano was shown in the International Grandprix level, at the WEG in 2014, and has very high scores in international Grand Prix.

Soberano – Prizes: 1st, Gold Medal and Champion of Champions, Golega Horse Fair 2002, 3 years old class; 1st, Gold Medal and Champion of Champions, Golegã Horse Fair 2003, 4 years old ridden class. APSL Recommended stallion.

Soberano is over 17 hands and passes that height onto his offspring.

As examples of what Soberano produces,  see: Csar, a Grandprix level horse ridden by Pedro Torres  ,

and Cesar D Atela 

 Soberano’s brother is Rico. Rico was ridden by Kyro Kyklund in the UK. See his dressage test here:

 Soberano’s sire is Hostil: the Godfather of the dressage Lusitano.  Hostil is one of seven Stallions of Merit in the World.

Other relatives have excelled not only in dressage but also in working equitation. 

Here is close cousin of Soberano: Bariloche (Rouxinol-Hostil) Recommended Licensed Lusitano Stallion, shown at Grand Prix level. 

 Our two yearlings (coming two year olds) have fantastic dam lineages as well.

 Mercury CAL’s dam is B-Caranja (16.1 hands).  She is a Brazilian mare, from the Interagro stud. Caranja’s sire is Nordeste. Nordeste is also a recommended stallion by the APSL, with a score of 77.50 points. An outstandingly beautiful black stallion, Nordeste was bred by Mr. Manuel Braga from Sociedade das Silveiras.  Before being exported to Brazil from Portugal, he won a number of tests at the Prix St. Georges level, and produced a populous crop of superior quality offspring, both at Sociedade das Silveiras and at several other Portuguese breeders.   

Marialva CAL’s dam is Haute Tantra Cal (16.2 hands), APSL approved.  Video below is of Tantra as a yearling.  Tantra has done well in the breed show ring, winning her mare class at the Eastern Regional Lusitano Horse show in 2014.

  Daughter of Caranja (see breeding above) and her sire is Rumbero.  Rumbero is a 16.2 hand, APSL approved, homozygous black Lusitano stallion, bred in Portugal by  Pablo Caetano.  Some of his siblings can be seen at the Portuguese School of Equestrian Art.  His sire, Altivo, was trained for bullfighting and had a good career.  Altivos’s APSL revision score was 81.  Here is a video of Rumbero, who was shown at Pre Saint George, Marialva's sire: 

As you move forward in making the life changing decision of buying the horse of your dreams.  Ask yourself… why?  If your answer is that you are truly looking for a horse with the potential for competitive dressage, classical dressage or working equitation that is beyond what you would expect in a Lusitano, these colts may be for you.  If you are looking for a Lusitano that will be competitive with almost any warmblood in the USA, then we encourage you to apply for ownership of one of these very special horses.   

Take some time to watch all these videos of very close relatives (sire to the two yearlings we have for sale.  These yearlings are result of careful breeding to produce the best Lusitano dressage horses possible.  Then ask yourself, what are you waiting for?  The Lusitanos: 

Mercury CAL was born in April 25, 2016.  Grey (Black base).  Gorgeous, up-headed, elegant yearling.  Will be over 17 hands (17.2+/-), with fantastic gaits and conformation. APSL inscribed/IALHA registered. Halter trained, sensitive temperament. Grand Prix or master's working equitation candidate.  He is friendly, loves people and is trusting.  This colt is truly a stallion prospect. $15,00.00 USD

 Marialva CAL was born June 9, 2016 and will be 16+ hands, with fantastic gaits and conformation with excellent breed type.  APSL inscribed/IALHA registered.  Advanced dressage (Grand Prix) or working equitation candidate.  This is a fantastic grand prix candidate and a horse for the serious amateur or the professional.  His gaits are fantastic and his trot has both lift and extension.  He is extremely up-headed.  His personality is friendly and trusting. $14,500.00 The video below shows Marialva last summer.  

 Mercury and Rio (Marialva) have been together since weaning.  They are halter broken, love people, are interactive, have been trailored, up to date on vaccinations, and Coggins.  Soon they will be ready for some light ground work – as their two year birthdates are in 2018.  

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Lusitanos that will live up to expectations and why: our yearlings

Performance matters, no matter what the breed.

Breed type matters for both breed characteristics and temperament.

A strong lineage is the best insurance that one can get when buying a dressage prospect.

We all love the Lusitano for it ability to collect, to perform high-school movements and its temperament.  But we also know that not all Lusitanos are created equal.

In Europe right now, there is a line of Lusitanos that are successfully competing in the Northern EU dressage arena. These Lusitanos are endowed with gaits that are spectacular.  Not only with a lot of knee but with extension also.  Because they are Lusitanos and have maintained breed type, they also naturally round and drive from behind. Because of that drive, they have the ability for collection, and an athleticism rarely found in the in WB breeds.  Their walk and canter benefit from this ability to collect also.  These gaits, combined the mind and breed type of the Lusitano make a powerful combination. Unfortunately, these lines are poorly represented in the USA. 

In 2015, we imported semen from the stallion Soberano- the best of the best from these lines.  The video below of Soberano is one of my favorites: 

 If you haven’t seen Soberano’s performance at the WEG in Normandy in 2014, please watch it – you are in for a treat.  Watch: 

We have two Soberano stallions (yearlings) from this breeding, that we have let grow up a little and we are now ready to sell one of them.  Both are talented, athletic, with great minds and are serious Grand Prix potential horses. Soberano –     *His Sire: Hostil (see below)

**Grandsire Xaquiro 

**Grandsire Zico

Soberano represents the best of these lines.  Soberano was shown in the International Grandprix level, at the WEG in 2014, and has very high scores in international Grand Prix.

Soberano – Prizes: 1st, Gold Medal and Champion of Champions, Golega Horse Fair 2002, 3 years old class; 1st, Gold Medal and Champion of Champions, Golegã Horse Fair 2003, 4 years old ridden class. APSL Recommended stallion.

Soberano is over 17 hands and passes that height onto his offspring.

As examples of what Soberano produces,  see: Csar, a Grandprix level horse ridden by Pedro Torres  ,

and Cesar D Atela 

 Soberano’s brother is Rico. Rico was ridden by Kyro Kyklund in the UK. See his dressage test here:

 Soberano’s sire is Hostil: the Godfather of the dressage Lusitano.  Hostil is one of seven Stallions of Merit in the World.

Other relatives have excelled not only in dressage but also in working equitation. 

Here is close cousin of Soberano: Bariloche (Rouxinol-Hostil) Recommended Licensed Lusitano Stallion, shown at Grand Prix level. 

 Our two yearlings (coming two year olds) have fantastic dam lineages as well.

 Mercury CAL’s dam is B-Caranja (16.1 hands).  She is a Brazilian mare, from the Interagro stud. Caranja’s sire is Nordeste. Nordeste is also a recommended stallion by the APSL, with a score of 77.50 points. An outstandingly beautiful black stallion, Nordeste was bred by Mr. Manuel Braga from Sociedade das Silveiras.  Before being exported to Brazil from Portugal, he won a number of tests at the Prix St. Georges level, and produced a populous crop of superior quality offspring, both at Sociedade das Silveiras and at several other Portuguese breeders.   

Marialva CAL’s dam is Haute Tantra Cal (16.2 hands), APSL approved.  Video below is of Tantra as a yearling.  Tantra has done well in the breed show ring, winning her mare class at the Eastern Regional Lusitano Horse show in 2014.

  Daughter of Caranja (see breeding above) and her sire is Rumbero.  Rumbero is a 16.2 hand, APSL approved, homozygous black Lusitano stallion, bred in Portugal by  Pablo Caetano.  Some of his siblings can be seen at the Portuguese School of Equestrian Art.  His sire, Altivo, was trained for bullfighting and had a good career.  Altivos’s APSL revision score was 81.  Here is a video of Rumbero, who was shown at Pre Saint George, Marialva's sire: 

As you move forward in making the life changing decision of buying the horse of your dreams.  Ask yourself… why?  If your answer is that you are truly looking for a horse with the potential for competitive dressage, classical dressage or working equitation that is beyond what you would expect in a Lusitano, these colts may be for you.  If you are looking for a Lusitano that will be competitive with almost any warmblood in the USA, then we encourage you to apply for ownership of one of these very special horses.   

Take some time to watch all these videos of very close relatives (sire to the two yearlings we have for sale.  These yearlings are result of careful breeding to produce the best Lusitano dressage horses possible.  Then ask yourself, what are you waiting for?  The Lusitanos: 

Mercury CAL was born in April 25, 2016.  Grey (Black base).  Gorgeous, up-headed, elegant yearling.  Will be over 17 hands (17.2+/-), with fantastic gaits and conformation. APSL inscribed/IALHA registered. Halter trained, sensitive temperament. Grand Prix or master's working equitation candidate.  He is friendly, loves people and is trusting.  This colt is truly a stallion prospect. $15,00.00 USD

 Marialva CAL was born June 9, 2016 and will be 16+ hands, with fantastic gaits and conformation with excellent breed type.  APSL inscribed/IALHA registered.  Advanced dressage (Grand Prix) or working equitation candidate.  This is a fantastic grand prix candidate and a horse for the serious amateur or the professional.  His gaits are fantastic and his trot has both lift and extension.  He is extremely up-headed.  His personality is friendly and trusting. $14,500.00 The video below shows Marialva last summer.  

 Mercury and Rio (Marialva) have been together since weaning.  They are halter broken, love people, are interactive, have been trailored, up to date on vaccinations, and Coggins.  Soon they will be ready for some light ground work – as their two year birthdates are in 2018.  

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Big day today, as we had the pleasure to sit up ourselves for the very first time on one of our first-generation PRE Andalusian dressage offspring. Alcázar Real is a son of Fer Bulería, Reserve Champion of Spain, Absolute Champion of Movements and Absolute Champion of Functionality. Breed: Pura Raza Española (PRE)

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PRE breeders are doing a better and better job breeding purebred Spanish horses for FEI dressage. This is PRE Andalusian stallion Ambicioso VG, a son of Fer Bulería, competing at the Royal Polo in Barcelona, ridden by Spanish competition rider Marc Amat. After debuting with such success in dressage in Spain, Ambicioso VG is now at a British dressage stable owned by a UK Olympic rider. We hope very much to be seeing him compete on the British dressage arenas soon. See more photos of Ambicioso VG competing here.

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Exceptional Mover

Aurora Real

Aurora Real (Fer Bulería x Gala VG, bay PRE Andalusian mare. Yeguada CavalReal 2014. Spectacular movements in all three gaits, her walk is especially long and relaxed, the trot elastic and suspended, and the canter excellent. Recommended for dressage competition, professional or amateur level.

--- Photo: Aurora Real (Fer Bulería x Gala VG, Yeguada Cavalreal 2014), 4 years old in this photo. Photo © CavalReal, all rights reserved

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Young Horse Training: Alejandro

Black PRE stallion Alejandro, 3 years old and just under saddle. We shot these photos during a clinic with the lead instructor from one of the Spanish dressage academies. Alejandro concentrated really well, and we were happy to see him looking so content with his first “formal” experience with lots of people watching.

--- Photo: Alejandro Tranan (Velazquez II / Arianda), Stuteri Tranan 2010, 3 years old in this photo. Photo © CavalReal, All rights reserved

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PRE Andalusian Dressage Prospect, 3 Years

Bay PRE Andalusian dressage talent with exceptional movements for sale in Spain. The niece of an international PRE Grand Prix horse, she is currently in training with a successful Spanish Grand Prix rider. Her character is easy-going with much forward-going energy, and she learns very easily. Two months under saddle.

Pura Raza Española (PRE) Mare. Approved for PRE breeding (APTO). No piro. Registered in the LG-ANCCE breed registry.

Age in photo: 3 years

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Alpha Real (Fer Bulería x Gramola, CavalReal 2014). Purebred Spanish stallion, four years old in these photos. Breed: Pura Raza Española (PRE). For more information, see his page at www.cavalrealportfolio.com