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& Below - The Spanish Horse is a much-admired possession and the pride of the Spanish
Caballero (a gentleman on horseback). A lot of culture and traditions surround the Spanish
Horse, something we find difficult to appreciate unless we actually go and visit their
country, their horse shows and equestrian events. Ridden horses are generally always kept
as entires, stallions (sementales) are rarely gelded, and other than for perhaps a few
Doma Vaquera horses, mares are not normally ridden. The mares (yeguas) are traditionally
used to thrash maize in the fields working as the traditional cobras groups of mares
linked together via leather neck collars. At
the 2002 WEG opening ceremony in Jerez we were treated to 2 X 14 horse cobras of mares
from the Jerez military stud farm
Enjoy the wonderful images of the beautiful and serene pure
Spanish bred mares who have very tractable temperaments and are willing to work in
formation joined together just by a string through a collar around their necks. They
have a caballo on a stallion guiding them in their movements and they work perfectly in a
line and maintain their distances on a circle - it is an awesome sight and I will never
forget these beautiful ladies. |
