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VHS Collection Donated in the Name of Vaughan Smith PDF E-mail

The following 28 video tapes have been generously donated to The Foundation for the Pure Spanish Horse in the name of Vaughan Smith by his business partner Vicki MacDowell and his two children Chelsey and Tristan Smith.

The titles are available to serious scholars at The Foundation’s office in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Please plan a visit to the office to view not only these titles, but also the books which are in the library of The Foundation.

Click here to download a pdf of the Complete Description of each VHS Tape.

 

Doma Vaquera

I Congreso Internacional de Doma Vaquera
Los Primeros Pasos de la Doma Vaquera
Doma Vaquera II – El Trabajo del Caballo Vaquera
Doma Vaquera III


Ecumad International Seminar II on the P.R.E. Horse

A day at Rancho El Rocio, Seville Spain. May 18, 1999


FEI World Cup
Dressage to Music
Finals Dortmund 1999

The Queen of the Kür, Holland’s Anky van Grunsven once again kept her German rivals at bay to win a fourth World Cup dressage title on the amazing 16 year old Gestion Bonfire.


Glanzpunkte des Reitsports
Die Grosse Deutsche Dressurquadrille 1991
Schlosspark Wiesbaden

Die große Deutsche Dressurquadrille, 1939 konzipiert von dem legendären Felix Bürkner, erlebte eine von bisher nur 3 Aufführungen am 22 September 1991 vor der traumhaften Kulisse des Schloßparks in Wiesbaden-Biebach.


Gordon Potts
Starting Out Right: for English, Western or Park

From the start of ground work to champion show horses, Gordon Potts explains his training methods with particular emphasis on how the lessons and logic apply throughout the training of the horse.


Gordon Potts
Advanced Western Training Methods

Developing a western horse to its peak of abiity can be as demanding on the rider as on the horse. The logic of correct training methods must be followed with increasing emphasis on subtlety and softness to obtain the correct look, feel and response. Gordon Potts show how to approach perfection through training and how to minimize flaws while showing.


The Half Halt Demystified!!
Jane Savoie

Tape 1. Learning the Half Halt.


Head to Head
Gigolo v Bonfire: Dancing to Perfection

This video is a unique record of two of the greatest performances ever seen in modern equestrian competition. Isabell Werth on Nobilis Gigolo (GDR) and Anky an Grunsven on Cameleon Bonfire (NED) met head to head in the 1995 European Dressage Championships in Luxembourg and took the sport of dressage to a new level of excellence.


An Evening with Carl Hester

In this lecture demonstration Carl starts with 3 young horses and demonstrates various aspects of progressively training a horse and rider for dressage. In the second part of the demonstration Carl moves onto advanced training.


Kim Potts
Halter is for Everyone: To Show or Show Off your Horse

Kim Potts is one of the most respected and successful women training horses. Kim’s gentle and logical approach to Halter training has made her a big winner and makes this program a must for horse owners.

 

Klimke Teaching
I-1 and I-II and Grand Prix. Nurenberg, Germany


Kyra Kyrklund
Advanced Movements: Pirouette/Passage/Piaffe. Volume 5

Lateral Movements: Volume 4
The Horse’s Outline and Collection: Volume 3

Kyra Kyrklund is one of the most complete horsewomen of our time. Kyra is now renowned as a leading international dressage rider and trainer. She currently trains horses and riders at the Swedish National Stud where members of other equestrian disciplines also benefit from her expertise.

 

Lorenz.
Dressage Training II


Mari Monda Zdunic
“Haute E’Cole – Havin’ Fun with High School”

Havin’ Fun is a patient and efficient guide to high schooling your horse. Would you like your horse to kneel, bow, sit, lay down, say yes and no, Spanish walk or cross its legs? How about a circus bow, camel stretch, head stand, pedestal stand or Hi Ho Silver rear? When it’s too hot, too cold, too wet, too muddy to work your horse, you can high school your horse with any trick you can think of that a horse is physically capable of doing.


Sally Swift
Centered Riding. Tape 1

Sally covers the basic concepts, showing the relationship between the rider and the motion of the horse. In this video, Sally Swift demonstrates her Centered Riding techniques.


Tim Shea
Pleasure and Formal Driving: Training Methods
Advanced English and Park Training Methods
Intermediate English Training Methods

Tim Shea and Harry Cooper have teamed up to create a series of training videos intended to benefit horse owners of all levels of experience. Rather than to merely video clinics, each program was carefully prepared to present the problems likely to confront any rider and a proven, logical solution.


St. Georg Video
Die alten Meister der klassischen Dressur

Die prägten den Dressur-Sport, und ihre Schüler reiten heute in der Weltspitze. Mit diesem Film möchten wir die Errinnerung an einstige Könner im Dressur-Sattel lebendig halten: Henri Chammartin, Dr. Josef Neckermann, Willli Schultheis, Liselott Linsenhoff, Bubi Günther, Elena Petuschkowa, Sergei Filatow, Harry Boldt, Henry St. Cyr, Lis Hartel, Iwan Kizimow: filmische Raritäten, dressur-sportliche Höhepuunkte. Ein Film, der auf beglückende Weise die Symbiose zwischen Mensch und Pferd vorführt.


USDF
On The Levels 1999

Featuring the current dressage tests effective through 2002. This is your opportunity to view the dressage tests from the perspective of the rider, the trainer and the judge. Narrated by Janet Brown Wysocki, these excellent videotapes feature important movements and figures of each level. Superb riders demonstrate proper execution and common faults in riding the latest tests, which will be current through 2002.


Leslie Webb
Gymnastic Patterns
Volume I: Influence
Timing the Half-Halt, Bending the Jaw, Rhythm and Regularity

Volume II: Alignment
Bent is Balance, Straightness, Circular Figures

Gymnastic Patterns
Volume III: Engagement
Counter Canter, Lateral Movements, Impulsion

Pan American team and individual silver medalist, Leslie Webb discusses and demonstrates exercises to become proficient.


Dale Wilkinson, assisted by John Snobelen
Evaluating the Reining Horse.

Dale Wilkinson is considered a living legend in the horse world. He is the only person to have won both the National Cutting Horse Association and the National Reining Horse Association Futurities.


The World Equestrian Games 1998. Dressage.

The World Equestrian Games 1998 were a triumph in organization by the Italian Equestrian Federation and the WEG ’98 Organizing Committee. However, the real story of this competition was the resumption of battle between Germany’s reigning World, European and lympic Champion Isabell Werth on Nissan Gigolo and her main adversary over the last 4 years, Holland’s Anky van Grunsven and Gestion Bonfire.


Yeguada Militar.
The First Century


 

 
Book Collection of Vaughan Smith PDF E-mail

The following books from the Collection of Vaughan Smith are now included
in The Foundation Library as part of the P.R.E. Horse Museum.

These wonderful books are available to scholars or P.R.E. aficionados by
visiting the Albuquerque, New Mexico Office of The Foundation. For more
information, contact The Foundation Office at 505-294-0800
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Between Ourselves: Six top riders share their horsey experiences. 94 pages. Soft bound. Stories by famous riders: Ian Stark, Dido Harding, Monty Roberts, Richard Dunwoody, Mark Todd and Mary King.

 

 

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Better Riding. Lt. Colonel “Bill” Froud. The National Instructor to the British Horse Society. 95 pages. Hard bound. Teaching the seat, balance and suppling exercises, application of the simple aids, rider’s position at walk and trot, first steps in jumping, improving your horse. With accompanying pictures and comments and criticism.

 

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Classical Horsemanship For Our Time. Jean Froissard. 134 pages. Hard bound. 1988. This book presents the heritage of Classical theories of riding in a modern highly readable format. Jean Froissard takes the reader through the development of a dressage horse, dressage in its truest sense, the training of a riding horse. He begins with the criteria for selection, then describes fully the progress of early training which is basic for any horse, whatever its destination. Building systematically upon what has been learned, with constant emphasis on rewards, for even the slightest improvement, over punishment, he then takes the reader through the training progression up to the highest levels of dressage. Numerous exercises are included and he clearly and lucidly explains how an why a movement should be performed and improved. The emphasis is always on the practical rather than the heavily theoretical, a blessing to those readers who have frequently found themselves “lost6” when trying to apply what they have read to their day-to-day riding.

pix_4 Competition Carriage Driving. HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. 112 pages. Hard bound. Competition Carriage Driving was written for all who aspire to drive four horses in combined driving events and the book provides encouragement and advice in the preparation of driver and horses. The book is not a conventional instructional manual. It is intended to help beginners to become safe and proficient in competitive driving. Some of the techniques described are unconventional and possibly controversial but the book is thought provoking and highly illuminating.

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Dressage in Lightness: Speaking the Horse’s Language. Sylvia Loch. 2002. 264 pages. This book is a must for those who want to know exactly what their horse is thinking when they are in the saddle. Does he feel free, does he feel trapped? Is his balance threatened – how can he be helped. Here we see her own and her pupils’ horses progressing from a very novice stage to the advanced movements of high school. Many riders know the traditional aids, but remain unaware of the biomechanical reason for doing things a certain way for the horse’s sake. By underlining the forces which influence the horse as he moves from straight lines to circles, from collected to extended work, from lateral movements to changes and finally to piaffe and passage, the author demystifies concepts such as outline, engagement and the weight aids.

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Dressage Riding: A guide for the training of horse and rider. Richard L. Watjen. 128 pages. Soft bound. Translated from the German by Dr. V. Saloschin. By themselves, theoretical principles and hints can never lead to success; to bear fruit they must be allied, in practice, to the skill and feeling of the rider. I have designed my book accordingly, and I shall be very pleased if it contributes to the proper training of horse and rider, thereby increasing the general knowledge of the art of riding. (About the author: He has proved himself not only as a trainer of Classical horses but also as a first class instructor. He was employed as instructor to the British team which competed at the Olympic Games at Helsinki in 1952 and there is no doubt that the seeds that he sowed during that time contributed to the success of our team when they won the Gold Medal in the Three Day Event at the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1956.” V.D.S. Williams).

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Ecole de Cavalerie. Contenant La Connoissance, L’Instruction, et la Conservation du Cheval. François Robichon de la Guérinière. Part Two. In English. This volume comprises only the pertinent Chapters I – XVIII of the second part of Ecole de Cavalerie, entitles “The Method of Training Horses According to the Different Ways in Which They Will be Used.) Ecole de Cavalerie is one of the best works on equitation ever to appear in France. In fact, it would not be an exaggeration to say that after a long struggle beginning in the Renaissance Academies of Italy, equitation in France suddenly flowed forth from La Guérinière. To quote the late Head of the Spanish Court Riding School in Vienna, Colonel Alois Podhajsky, “It was the great riding master La Guérinière who produced the most revolutionary book on riding of all times. Unlike (those by) his predecessors, his book is clear and easy to understand. He based it on simplicity and facts, in order to be completely understood by his readers.” His principles are still “applied unaltered at the Spanish Court Riding School and may be seen there in daily use.

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El Caballo Español en Dibujos. The Spanish Horse in Drawings. Juan Llamas. 236 pages. Juan Llamas uses his masterful skill as an artist to sketch the Spanish Horse in various poses to explain conformation, as well as a share the poetry which the horse engenders. In Spanish and English.

 

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Equus Reined. Robert Vavra. 199 pages. Hard back. “With the turning of each page one finds a picture of more beauty than the one that came before it.” --James Michener in the Foreword to Equus. Michener’s great praise holds true again for Equus Reined, the long-awaited sequel to Robert Vavra’s international bestseller Equus. While Equus was a celebration of the wild and free-running horse, Equus Reined is a romantic tribute to man’s relationship with equines since the beginning of time. Vavra takes us on a fanciful journey from the high mesas of the Old West to the green tournament fields of England, from the twilight-drenched beaches of the Spanish seaside to the arid Egyptian desert providing a glimpse of horses and man since the earliest times – images that, until now, have existed only in our imaginations.

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François Baucher: The Man and His Method. Hilda Nelson. 187 pages. 1992. Hard bound. François Baucher (1796 – 1863) was the center of one of the most famous controversies in the development of modern equitation. Baucher introduced the one-tempo flying change at the canter, but in nineteenth century France his circus performances and methods of haute-école training were attacked. Attempts to introduce his theories to the French cavalry were blocked, although he is now recognized as an outstanding horseman and exponent of Classical dressage. This important work combines a translation of two of Baucher’s publications, New Method of Horsemanship and Dialogues on Equitation, with a scholarly study of the arguments which surrounded them. Professor Nelson produces a fascinating insight into an important theory of horsemanship.

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Healing Your Horse: Alternative Therapies: Acupuncture, Chiropractic, Homeopathy, Massage. Meredith L. Snader, V.M.D. et al. 208 pages. Hard back. “Healthy as a horse” is a time-honored saying, but a misleading one nevertheless. People in the horse world know all too well that performance horses, like human athletes, are trained, fed and cared for so they can go faster, jump higher and run longer. Daily training can result in injuries and aches and pains, which often get treated with drugs that allow the horse to compete but which merely mask and not remedy the problem. Now owners and trainers dissatisfied with drugs and “quick fixes” can turn to the alternative therapies featured in Healing Your Horse for help. These therapies evolved from healing traditions several thousands of years old and have proved over time just how effective they are, whether applied individually or in concert. Each of the sections of Healing Your Horse is written by a practitioner who specializes in a particular therapy for treating equine athletes.
pix_1 Historia de Los Caballos Cartujanos. Juan Carlos Altamirano. Spanish text only. 287 pages. Hard back. De pocos caballos se habrá escrito tan profusamente como de los cartujanos. Han sido numerosos los estudios y referencias que se han publicado sobre ellos pero a la vez escasa, prácticamente ninguna, la documentación donde se han apoyado. El autor, en este meticuloso y elaborado trabajo, ya desmontando paso a paso y de forma documental uno de los grandes mitos de la historia: el de la propia existencia hoy de los caballos cartujanos.
pix_25 Horse Conformation: as to soundness and performance. A useful reference for the old horseman and a valuable guide for the amateur; written in easily understood terms. Ben K. Green. 80 pages. Hard bound. 1969. Brilliantly describes with words and exceptional illustrative drawings the horse’s conformation, region by region, good compared to not-so-good. A must to understand the biomechanics of the horse.

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Horses Are Made to be Horses. By Franz Mairinger. A personal philosophy of horsemanship. 167 pages. Hard bound. 1983. When Franz Mairinger died in 1978 the Australian equestrian world lost its most esteemed riding master. Horses Are Made to Be Horses is both a testament to the life and ideals of the former Spanish Riding School instructor who trained six Olympic equestrian teams for Australia, and a tribute from his many pupils and associates. The book is based on notes from lectures and demonstrations given throughout Australia by Franz Mairinger and painstakingly assembled by his widow Erna, friends, pupils, and followers of his teaching. Every page communicates the presence and personality of the teacher as he instructs, persuades, argues, accuses, jokes, provokes, and draws analogies from many areas of human experience. In dispelling the myth of the whip-wielding dictator he creates the picture of a patient and caring horseman who regards discipline as the basis for social stability as well as the natural order. His profound understanding of the horse involves the belief in its true place and purpose in creation, as an animal whose energies and talents are best expressed by following the pattern of nature – never by invoking force.

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Horses of the World. Maurizio Bongianni and Concetta Mori. 198 pages. Hard bound. 1985. One of the most interesting features of this book, which sets it apart from others on the market, is the unique organization of the subject matter. Rather than following the usual subdivisions according to country of origin or conformation, the different breeds are grouped according to their uses throughout history: in battle, for transportation and agriculture, and, in modern times, for sport. Every breed is represented, from work horses to thoroughbreds, and a whole variety of equestrian events covered, including racing, trotting races, eventing, dressage, show jumping, hunting, polo, rodeos – even jousting and tournaments. Valuable information is also given on training, riding accessories and equipment.
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II International ECUMAD Seminar on the P.R.E. Horse. May 1999. Yeguada Ovelar. Exceptional workbook with photos, explanations, comments from 10 Spanish experts assembled at Yeguada Ovelar for a week-long seminar. For any who were unable to attend, this is a splendid refresher course about the P.R.E.

 

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Lungeing and Long-Reining. Jennie Loriston-Clarke. 95 pages. Hard bound. Lungeing and Long-Reining is a step-by-step guide to the art of training, exercising and suppling horses from the ground, written by Britain’s leading exponent of the act. The book begins with advice on handling untrained youngsters and works through a logical training progression, culminating in advanced dressage movements. Olympic dressage rider Jennie Loriston-Clarke has broken and schooled countless dressage and jumping horses, and initially uses lungeing and long-reining to establish the horse’s basic education and create mutual respect between horse and handler.
pix_24b pix_24aPiaffer and Passage. General Decarpentry. Translated by Patricia Galvin. 76 pages. Hard bound. 1964. Piaffer and Passage comes at the right time and answers a precise purpose: to facilitate the task of riders preparing for the difficult Olympic test. This book provides in words and descriptive photos how to build your horse into a piaffe and passage.

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Real Life Dressage: Training Advice from Novice to Grand Prix. Carl Hester and Polly Ellison. 120 pages. Soft bound. 2004. In Real Life Dressage, Carl Hester shares his training methods and shows how they can be adapted to suit individual horses. Surprisingly, all the horses featured in this book are horses who have problems. None of them is perfect – because in real life dressage the perfect horse doesn’t exist. Assisted by co-writer Polly Ellison, he outlines his training regimes and favorite exercises, following some of his own horses up the levels to Grand Prix. As the training progresses, Carl examines the problems that are commonly encountered, and explains how he and other riders might overcome them. Carl’s training philosophy is very much on the lines of the German training system, the “Richtlinien” or broad path, that German trainers use so successfully.

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Riding Towards the Light: An Apprenticeship in the Art of Dressage Riding. Paul Belasik. 128 pages. Soft bound. This is Paul Belasik’s honest and compelling account of his personal struggle to discover the ultimate truths of dressage riding. His apprenticeship, as he calls it, lasted about thirteen years. It involved traversing thousands of miles. It entailed countless hours of rigorous practice. It meant researching through centuries of literature penned by the great riding masters of the past. It took in hours and hours of observation and lectures from latter-day masters, such as Henri Van Schaik and Nuno Oliveira. It even encompassed the stud of Zen Buddhism and martial arts. Riding Towards the Light provides more than an enthralling narrative. It discussed and offers practical information on important issues such as the use of the seat, hands and legs, balance and the half-halt. As such it will be of tremendous value to riders, trainers and judges and therefore deserves a place in the library of every serious dressage enthusiast.

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School of Horsemanship. François Robichon de la Guérinière. 330 pages. Hard bound. Ecole de Cavalerie was published in four parts in 1729-31, and in a single volume in its best-known edition in 1733. The theories in this book provide the basis for all modern equitation, and it is probably the most important work on the subject ever written. But only now has it been translated into English in its entirety. When producing this work, François Robichon de la Guérinière sought to draw together the equestrian knowledge passed down from masters of the sixteenth-century Italian school such as Giovanni Pignatelli and subsequently refined by men such as Saloman de la Broue, Antoine de Pluvinel and Willian Cavendih, Duke of Newcastle. While he certainly achieved his aim of distilling the knowledge of past generations into a more concise, logical form, it is the addition of his own ideas which makes School of Horsemanship such an exceptional work. Perhaps the best known of these is the shoulder-in, the exercise he invented by adapting ideas expounded by the Duke of Newcastle. This, however, is just one example of his capacity for innovation; in an age when for safety in battle a horse had to obey its rider, he understood that education is a more potent force than coercion; that attention to correctly fitting tack would prevent more resistances than harsh punishment would cure, and that horses’ aptitudes varied according to conformation and temperament, so that better results would be achieved by treating them as individuals.
pix_13 The Arabian Horse in Australia. Volume II. The Arabian Horse Society of Australia Limited. 263 pages. 1984. Hard bound. This book, produced by the Arabian Horse Society, describes the Arabian in Australia, with many color pictures of current horses and their pedigrees. The first section is a history of the Arabian horse in Australia. The next sections are about breeding and the individual studs.

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The Batsford Book of Horses. Dorian Williams. 121 pages. Hard bound. This handsome volume portrays the horse in all his elegance and variety. Over 100 magnificent photographs – a third of them I full color – illustrate the main breeds of horses and ponies and reflect the many different ways in which they are used by man for his sport and leisure. Dorian Williams’ accompanying text is as evocative as it is informative. While lamenting the imminent passing of such working horses as the Shire and the Clydesdale, he notes the revival of coaching; even more popular, and ever-growing in popularity , are the numerous Riding and Pony Clubs in which you can graduate from weekend hacking to dressage or ride any kind of pony from the Connemara to the Shetland. Sport is richly and dramatically represented – from Show Jumping, with such stars as Marion Mould on Stroller, and Three-Day Events to Polo and Hunting; or, if you’re more of a spectator than a rider, Mr. Williams recaptures the excitement of the turf – be it flat racing, hurdling or steeplechasing – and of the American Rodeo.
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The Complete Training of Horse and Rider in the Principles of Classical Horsemanship. Alois Podhajsky, former Director of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna. 287 pages. Soft bound. No introduction is needed for this book of classic training by one of the classical masters.

 

 

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The Horsemasters: The Secret of Understanding Horses. Josephine Haworth. 110 pages. Hard bound. 1983. Awe and fascination have been a constant theme in the history of man’s dealings with horses. But to make the horse useful to man, he had first to be tamed and trained into obedience. In the early days, the answer for most people was to meet strength with brute force – literally to break the horse’s spirit, using any device from whips, spurs and blinkers to putting shot into the horse’s ears and firing revolvers close to his head. It was small wonder that some animals reacted adversely to this treatment, and were branded as vicious, dangerous and untamable. Although the question of just what might be locked inside the horse’s head had bothered people for a very long time, it is only relatively recently in the history of man’s relationship with the horse that a new and enlightened approach to is handling took root and manifested itself in the legendary horse-tamers. In this fascinating and thought-provoking survey, the author traces the development of that history from the mystery and witchcraft of the Middle Ages – the Whisperers, the Toadmen and the possessors of the magic “Horseman’s Word” – through the revolutionary American “horse-gentler”, John Solomon Rarey, in the mid-nineteenth century to some of the horsemasters of today, like George Freeman and Royal trainer Jack O’Donoghue, who have this vital affinity with horses. Does their secret lie solely in methods using patience and understanding, gentleness, respect and mutual trust, or do they posses some special quality? Full of intriguing examples and insights, sometimes unexpected and often moving, this book will make everyone who comes into contact with horses think afresh about their own approach and relationships with the animals. For the time as come to reassess all that has been observed and documented about horses, and since horses have learned to understand our language, we must now make some effort to understand theirs.

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The Royal Horse of Europe: The Story of the Andalusian and Lusitano. Sylvia Loch. 256 pages. Hard bound. The Royal Horse of Europe tells the story of the great war horse of Spain and Portugal which was to influence all Europe’s history and play a significant role in the founding of many of today’s most successful horse breeds. Through its pages we discover that this aristocratic horse has survived to this day and is highly prized for his superb temperament, outstanding agility and spectacular looks. Over the centuries he has been given a plethora of names, but he is best known as the Andalusian or Lusitano. The author’s original research covers the development of cavalry and horsemanship in the Iberian Peninsula from pre-Roman times to the present day and throws new light on the obscure past of our equestrian heritage. Her well-documented account of the influence of Iberian blood on the horses of the Americas, the Thoroughbred racehorse, native British breeds and European warm-bloods makes fascinating reading.

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The Royal Stables of Córdoba. Las Caballerizas Reales de Córdoba. Juan Carlos Altamirano. Text also in French and German. 127 pages. Hard bound. Following his earlier editorial success, in this new book, based on the third chapter of his book Historia y Origen del Caballo Español (History and Origins of the Spanish Horse), the author shows step by step and with great detail how the royal stables of Córdoba were built and the vicissitudes surrounding the building from the moment of the purchase of the plot on which it was constructed up to the present, in a synthesis of the creation of the Spanish horse and the reason for its existence. The result of this painstaking research, based on unpublished documents related to the creation of the Spanish horse and its evolution in the centuries that followed, questions what has been written about the Spanish breed of horses and reveals new aspects of royal stables. On the basis of extensive documentation it shows that the Spanish horse is not the result of natural evolution but of the biggest genetic project in history, geared to obtaining a breed of horses with predetermined characteristics, undertaken at the orders of the king Philip II starting in 1567, in the city of Córdoba.
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The Spanish Riding School of Vienna. October 1989 performance in Wembley Arena. Souvenir program with text about the School, the horses, the pedigrees, and wonderful pictures.

 

 

 

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This Is The Spanish Horse. Juan Llamas. Translated by Jane Rabagliati. 344 pages. Hard bound. Published in Spain in 1989, this is the most comprehensive book yet written on the breed characteristics and conformation of the purebred Spanish, or Andalusian, horse, which played such an important part in the history of Spain and in the evolution of the great hot-blooded breeds of today, including the Lippizaner and the Thoroughbred. It also incorporates a brief history of the breed, from its pre-Christian origins to the present day, and a wealth of Andalusian horse lore. With 101 pages of full-color photographs, this book is a must for anyone interested in Spain, its horses and its colorful ferias. Juan Llamas is one of the foremost authorities on the breed today, and the original translation is by Jane Rabagliati, who also provided many of the photographs.
pix_14apix_14b pix_14cZingaro. La Ballade de Zingaro. 181 pages. Hard bound. Text in French. Two books of photographs from the show Zingaro.
 
International News PDF E-mail

New Representative in Guatemala

The Foundation and the Mundial Registry are proud to announce the appointment of D. Raul Minondo as their representative in Guatemala and as such enjoys a position on the Advisory Board for his Country. He can be reached here by This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

We would like to welcome D. Raul and thank him for his service to the P.R.E. Horse. He joins Mauricia Guerra who represents the interests of Mexico, and Maria O'Brian who represents Nicaragua.

 
Complete Guided Tour in English of CERTAMENESECUESTRES.COM PDF E-mail
Written by Maria McCarty   
Following the 2008 Foundation CELEBRATION of the Pure Spanish Horse in Las Vegas, there were a flood of inquiries asking how to enter and navigate this MELPI site for competition results. So here’s the complete guided tour, place it alongside and follow me to the site, being careful to not misspell the “ecuestre” portion of the name. English-speakers are inclined to put equestre.
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About P.R.E.
You have seen them in movies and probably didn't even know what they were; just that they were the most beautiful horses you have every seen. They have long flowing manes and tails, come in all colors but are mostly gray or white, and have been bred for centuries to bond with, understand and relate to humans with timeless generosity and nobility.
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Situation in Spain deteriorates further PDF E-mail
The Spanish Ecuestre magazine, one of the most important magazines for the horse in Spain, has devoted their November 20008 issue to the deepening problems affecting the breed known as PRE here.
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The Situation of the Management of the LG, seen by Javier Conde, president of ANCCE PDF E-mail
From Revista Ecuestre, November 2008
“We are at 70% performance” Having made an approximation of the situation of the LG PRE in relation to our data and to the opinions of the professionals who are in direct contact with it, we wanted to know to date the appraisal of ANCCE. And for this, nothing better than ask their president, Javier Conde, who gave us his point of view of the current situation.
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About PRE Video PDF E-mail

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History PDF E-mail

The heritage of the Pura Raza Española (P.R.E.) contains an abundance of tradition and culture. Its time honored elegance and harmony have demonstrated its competence and achievement.

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