2-Takt-Galopp

ich stehe ein wenig an der wand und wäre für eine hilfestellung mehr als dankbar:
mit dem alten perla hatte ich ein pferdchen, dass auf leichtestes zupfen "losdopste"^^
nun wollte ich gerne mal versuchen, seinen sohn "in die luft zu bekommen", der wirklich schöne anlagen für die kapriole zeigt. das eigentliche timing und andere abläufe betreffend der kapriole hat der alte perla mir ja prima erklärt. aber da es den gewissen unterschied zwischen "ich mache etwas mit einem pferd, dass das schon kann" und "ich bringe es einem pferd bei" gibt, und der 2-takt  nirgends beschrieben wird, baue ich mir- in völliger unkenntnis der sache- theorien zusammen, wie ich dem hengst das terre-a-terre beibringe. ist der ansatz über extreme versammlung im galopp an der hand mit anschließendem "blockieren" des weges nach vorne falsch? ich hab echt keinen schimmer, gebe ich offen zu, will dem tier aber auf keinen fall durch meine unkenntnis falsches angedeihen lassen. beim galoppieren kann ich mittlerweile gemütlich mitspazieren. wenn ich aber über den kappzaum dann pariere, bleibt er stehen und guggt mich mit großen augen an-griiins.

SPANISH RIDING SCHOOL AT WEMBLEY video newsreel film 1969

Spanish Riding School at Wembley, London. 1969
www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=73380

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Nice video. Identifying the riders would be great!  :-)

Siglavy Montedora

does anybody own a picture of this stallion?

Ravesta

Baby-Photos

Gala Performance at the Training-Center in Heldenberg

Start:	Jul 3, '10 5:00p
End:	Jul 3, '10 7:00p
Location:	SRS Training-Center Heldenberg

Maestoso Pastime-120

M. Toscana-94 x 33 Pastime)

Request: Program USA-Tour 1950

Dear all,

A question from me to the H&D members: does anyone have (a copy of) the original program of the SRS-Tour 1950  (New York - Harrisburg - Toronto)  ??

For a publication, I am highly interested if  Conversano Bonavista (1925) and OB Ernst Lindenbauer were participating.

Thank you in advance!
Atjan

Foto's-- Ernst Lindenbauer

Ernst Lindenbauer

 “Up to the nineteenth century, there was an exclusive atmosphere about the haute ecole and the Spanische Hofreitschule in Vienna, and the Court had provided many outstanding horsemen to follow in the footsteps of the early masters. This exclusiveness was later modified to admit any aspirant whose aptitude promised to uphold traditions of the past. There were many candidates, though few enough were chosen to become instructors and fulfill what was often the ambition of a lifetime

During the early 1890’s there was one small boy, in particular, who thought of nothing else and who eventually succeeded in becoming one of the best known first instructors. His name was Ernst Lindenbauer, and this is his story as he told it.    
Before he was ten years old he would have given anything to join the Imperial School, but could find no one who would even consider engaging him as a stable boy. He was much too small to reach a Lipizzaner’s neck, let alone groom its silky coat. So for a long time he had to resign himself to pursuing his lessons. If they taught him nothing about horses, at least they made him feel each end of term would bring him nearer the goal he had set himself, and with each year that passed he would grow stronger and fitter for the job. There were holidays too, when he would steal into the stables, if only to be near the horses, to touch their velvet muzzles or enjoy the stable atmosphere and its delicious odour.  He lived just around the corner from the School. Sometimes he would go to the Prater and watch the riders trotting up and down the track. He would watch them eagerly in order to pick up anything he could about how to sit in the saddle and to hold the reins, as he had heard people say that you could see at a glance from the seat of a rider whether he had the art at his command.  At other times he stopped at the rank of fiakers, studying their harness.

One day, when he thought he had learned enough, he decided to make himself a little cab. His parents owned a pair of goats, and he thought he could train them to take him round the city. With any luck, he thought, someone might notice how well behaved they were under his control...and so it happened. He collected a few vegetable boxes and a long pole. In no time he was the owner of a handsome carriage and pair, brilliantly harnessed, spotlessly groomed. So much so, that they attracted the attention of the Archduke Francis Salvatore, one of the Emperor Franz Joseph I’s sons-in-law, who stopped him to examine his work of art and asked if he would not rather be with horses? Some were in Vienna, others in the country at Ischl, where the Emperor had his shooting-box and summer residence. The boy was so thrilled, he could find no word to express his appreciation, as millions of thoughts flashed through his mind all at once. Was his dream really coming true? Would his parents agree?  Anyway, he was to call on the Archduke, to try out one of his ponies. No, he was not afraid, but so excited he could hardly sleep that night.

Before he knew where he was, a little dark brown colt was taking him round the field adjoining the Imperial stableyard, and to his joy it had a wonderful mouth, obeying every one of the boy’s moves at the slightest indication. This was next day, and after that he was allowed to return as often as he wished, to get more practice, until he was fifteen and could leave school. In the meantime, every penny was saved, and he often skipped his meals and went really hungry, only to get back to the horses. One Sunday afternoon, the Archduke came to watch him, when it was decided that he should join the ‘Campagne School’, for beginners.
    
But that meant five o’clock at work each morning to learn everything from scratch. Soon he had to exercise a number of horses per day, and keep them in good condition. Three months later he was roped in to do serious work on the long rein, and in the saddle, joining several other boys of the cavalry club for longer rides. At the age of sixteen he saw his mounts winning prizes in dressage competitions. But his first big day was yet to come. Prince Liechtenstein, who was Master of the Horse to the Imperial Court and chief of the Spanische Hofreitschule, had been approached to accept him as an apprentice, and then came an unforgettable half-hour on one of the white stallions.
   

A new training period was in sight. Ernst was to receive a uniform and undergo his military education to begin with. During the summer holidays, the Archdukes family took him to Ischl where he taught the Imperial grandchildren to ride. Those were the happiest days of his young life and he became a great favorite at the Court. He had been an outstanding member of the Spanische Hofreitschule for some time, when he rose to the position of first instructor in 1926. Two years later he came to London with his team of men and horses, to give one of their usual displays of haute ecole, under the leadership of Count Rudolph van der Straten. Of this occasion, and of the one that followed in 1936, Lindenbauer spoke with the greatest pride of the honor he enjoyed in being presented to their Majesties, King George V, King George VI, and Queen Mary, particularly as Queen Mary delighted him by remembering having met himduring her visit to Vienna, some twenty years earlier. He also told of his devotion to the Duke of Windsor, who, as he said, came no fewer than twenty times to see the Lipizzaners at the Schule in Vienna, when he was Prince of Wales.

Lindenbauer was an Imperial servant of the old school and a master of the art of horsemanship, whose inborn love of the horse earned him a special place among the most remarkable and skilled riders in the annals of the Spanische Hofreitschule. His favorite Lipizzaner was Conversano Bonavista, on which he is pictured performing a Pirouette.”

From “The Spanish Riding School”, by Mathilde Windisch-Graetz

Karen MacKenzie is visiting the Spanish Riding School!

Karen and her daughter are spending a few days in Vienna and attending the morning training and performance.

Spanische Hofreitschule Foto's II

Training of the young Lipizzan

Dear all,

I follow this site with the biggest of interrest since I'm now also one of the proud owners of a Lipizzan from Piber.

I have experience from training of young horses of other breed earlier but want to ensure the best possible start for my Lipizzan and do constantly come back to the advice of not starting with the young Lipizzan until they reach the age of four.

Mine is a three year old at present and the work I'm presenting at the moment is purely on the social side. We're taking long walks in the forrest and I'm getting him used to all type of new items in the surrounding and walking by ourselves and not in group with other horses.

What is your views on training of the three year old? Should longeing, introductions of all tack, double longeing etc be introduced and only the actual riding wait until they're four or should this work also wait for another year?

I'm happy for taking it really slow but also get the warnings from the surroundings that as a four year old I might run into troubles since he then has become to strong to control etc. At the moment I just turn the blind eye for these advices but would like to be strengthened in my believe that I'll prove them wrong in the years to come.

Thank you very much for a wonderful blogsite.

Cheers, Maria

SRS film from London 1920s

I found this film clip on the British Pathé website of the SRS tour to London in the late 1920s (I forget the exact date).

I thought the SRS historians here might be interested!

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=79991

baby night

;-) tonight rigoletta has born her foal number 10 at the age of 15 years.
mummy and son are doing fine. a strong guy

 

Atjan Hop is visiting the Spanish Riding School!

Atjan and Yolanda Hop from the Netherlands are visiting the Spanish Riding School.

The couple is spending the morning at the school and roaming downtown Vienna in the afternoon.