SRS Financial challenge

I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr Werner Pohl for California Riding Magazine shortly after a reorganization of SRS was announced publically. A flattering article followed. Toaday, however, privatization is apparantly not going well and keeping SRS on a sound financial footing will be challeging, to say the least.

I would like to help but I need your help in putting me in touch with parties in the film industry.

I control the rights of my novel, KIRCHBORN, published in 2003. It is a suspense thriller with a European setting and, yes, there are horses in it. In fact, international dressage and the IOC are at the core of the plot. A treatment is available upon request.

The profits of such an enterprise could and would be dedicated to SRS.

Kent Gilmore

"Eichendorf"

Question about training and de la Gueriniere?

Andreas,

 

I was reading some excerpts from de la Gueriniere's "Ecole de Cavalerie" and ran across a passage which made me stop and wonder about how the stallions are trained at the SRS.  The passage was this:

 

"It is a principle to which all experienced masters subscribe that a horse should never be galloped before having been suppled with the trot so that it neither bears on the hand nor pulls at the reins. One must wait, then, until the horse is supple in its entire body, trained to the shoulder-in and the croup to the wall, and is accomplished in the piaffe between the pillars; and as soon as it has reached this point of development, it will perform the gallop willingly without much coaxing."

 

If I understand this correctly, it sounds as though de la Gueriniere is saying not to canter the horse until it is thoroughly developed in collection.  Am I misunderstanding this?  It could be that I am reading the passage entirely out of context as all I have are excerpts rather than the whole text.  However, it got me wondering -- Is this something the SRS has ever practiced? 

 

Thank you, in advance!

 

 

Basic, very basic question

Hello,   I am a new member and have a very very simple question about the management of the horses in the Spanish riding school.   Many trainers now say that horses can eat hay before work, but I was taught to withdraw hay from horses two hours before they work. Is this the case in the SRS too or do they eat hay before work ? I know horses digest very quickly as all prey animals, but in the past this was a rule.   Because the high level of quality of the work the stallions at the SRS achieve and the fact that they may be the last horses trained with a swinging back and moving "middle" (belly muscles not stiff), it would be very interesting to know how they are managed on that level too !    I think in Dressage the SRS are the reference about top quality and I would not ask this question to no one else ! I hope I am forgiven to ask such a simple question..   Catherine

Welcome !!!

Welcome to all new members !!!   Andreas Hausberger

Favory Dubovina

Atjan - Thanks for posting the picture of Favory Dubovina and our favorite Oberbereiter. We saw him a few times during Morning Training when we were in Vienna, but not in a performance. What part of the performance was he in?

Jan

Favory Dubowina

Arrival of the young stallions in the SRS

Four young Lipizzaner stallions from stud Piber arrived in the Spanish Ridingschool, and were presented to the press today! It concerns

• Pluto Malina
• Favory Duba
• Maestoso Bellamira   and
• Neapolitano Madera

All are born in 2004.

 

You can find a small video about this here:

http://video.vienna.at/members.stadtreporter/20080108_spanische.mov/viewer.html

 

Beside those 4, some young stallions of the same age remained in Piber, as "reserve". (This is a new situation) They will be trained there by the stud personell, guided by "Oberbereiter" from Vienna. After some time will be judged, if those 4 in Vienna are really the best.

 

Atjan

 

 

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