Paso Fino, pure here

These  The month I've been so busy that there was not had time to tell you about my new acquisition, a â € AA € œnià ± ± os 24-year daughter of Calypso Jr Diorama ...

 Remember the article about Diorama? ... It was a few months had continued © Ndole track of a mare named SerranÃa © s ... and after several trips to Jayuya and talking with his former Duea ± o, we finally reach an agreement that would allow me the privilege of getting to this extraordinary mare recrÃa ...

For Diorama, is half sister SerranÃa Labriego ... as well as of tillage, Missionary and other specimens which, though less known, also © n were equally impressive ... but SerranÃa has its own rites as more © recrÃa mare, for among his daughters with Labriego is Serenade of the Oaks, mà º ltiple winner and their time, mother of Don Cholito of the Oaks ... but this is not the à º nica, four other mares products intersection Labriego, although not compete, are of the same quality (some say that more s) Serenade ...

The photo that accompanies ± to this article (I promise better pictures in one or two weeks) taking © in Jayuya for three weeks before making the deal with Don Miguel ... how they can see, the mare is in very good condition for your age ... anyway, last week vaccinated, the desparasitamos and was ironed out the wheels ... s In addition, we did a sonogram (ovaries is incredibly well for n mare ± 24-year old) and must be ready for insemination on Friday or Saturday ...

Of the possible pimps (all of the line of Labriego) we were considering, originally habÃamos thought put to controversy or rising sun ... but finally decided to repeat to Labriego ... and in a PRA ³ maximum delivery, then we get â € œcreativosâ € ... is interesting, but among the comments I made on this junction (with Labriego), someone told me this is like crossing Kofresà with Galana, when you have a mold so good, do not you get to change the recipe ...

A Do Quà © I can tell? ... Find this mare is how to relive the illusions tenÃamos with tillage ... and although we had to do some â € œembrollasâ € to acquire it, is as if the dream ± or once had, is still alive in SerranÃa ...

There nocià ³ n from some people that the Paso Fino is born with Sweet dreams ± or ... I mean, that our breed Paso Fino horses descended from a sa ³ the exemplary arrogant, like, for example, that race Morgan down the horse â € œFigureâ € (later called € â € œJustin Morgan, in honor of one of its owners ± os) ...

This is not quite right ... we must understand that the Paso Fino already existed, as documented in Puerto Rico long before the birth ± Sweet dream or ... but we must admit that the furor caused Sweet dreams ± o and its children, did that all too existÃan s lines in his time that were diluted in yours ... from here that all our horses â € € œmodernosâ horse down Sweet dreams ± o, mainly trava © s of their children: Battle, or Christmas Eve Guamanà ...

A similar, albeit on a smaller scale, happened ³ then with Kofresà ... the enthusiasm that I think among breeders and riders made it the pimp more s prolÃfico its à © Little ... and in turn, lines how to Soa ± ador, CarabalÃ, Don ToquÃ, Papyrus, Allegretto and Furious became a â € œsegundo planoâ € preferably ... this â € œcerrar the Razaa € has been repeated in several instances to trava © s history, the à º last with the horse Labriego ... that is why the insistence on preserving the lines that we are n º year, looking for genetic diversity © tica within our own race ...

Returning to Sweet dreams said © ± o ... a moment ago that the â € € œrazaâ Paso Fino shows and documented, with its own identity and features well defined, s more than a century before the birth of sweet dreams ... we can ± or that à © This is the great contribution made ​​by the lawyer Eduardo Quijano, in his book Paso Fino: race distinguishes one people ...

Atty Quijano told me a few days that this book grew out of concern for confirming whether the Paso Fino was truly a race auta ³ ctona of Puerto Rico ... in his book, tells how to horse was strongly rooted in the culture of our people ... the puertorriqueà ± zeal of his â € I € œrazaâ, which led them to defend their tradition before the horse n Espaà ± ol military government ... Races San Juan ... the first â € € œcompetenciaâ Paso Fino ...

For example, among the documents cited by Quijano, draws attention n the comment that in 1797 made the frank © s Andrà © s Pedro Ledra No on saw horses racing in San Juan,

The speed of these indigenous horses is admirable, they have no regular jog or gallop, but a kind of journey, a step so precipitate that the eye more attentive s can not follow the movement of their legs.

From here suggest two things: (1) that in 1797 already existed a kind of â € € indÃgenaâ œcaballo defined ... and (2) that his step was à º nico trademark page and, other than the trot and canter ...

Some notes historian Adolfo de Hostos indicate that in 1849 banned races San Juan ... but is allowed ³ carry out the first contest of horses ... the winners of that contest were: Breakwater, Editor, Babieca, Moro and Candy ... continues Hostos saying,

The stimulus that received these measures habÃa breeders paid off by the sixth great dà © each (1860). One of them, the firm Fernández and Aponte, ³ comes to produce, thanks to the selection n, a breed known by the name of Paso Fino horses, much admired in the West Indies.

That is, the mid-nineteenth century and the horses are indigenous reconocÃa as Paso Fino breed ... and this was much admired in the West Indies ...

Asa, framed in the cultural history of our people, Quijano we will unveil the evidence historical area that leads to the Spotted Horse, who à © l referred to as â € œtronco eat º nâ € ... and who, several generations more s later, Sweet dreams come ± o, and the mare Vicenta Gift ...

It is important to realize that our breed Paso Fino is a breed auta ³ ctona of Puerto Rico and à º nica in the world ... and we as puertorriqueà ± os, are called to preserve this cultural heritage and historic that has been bequeathed by our ancestors ...

As one dear friend,

 © qua live the Paso Fino!

Tuesday is my â € œdÃa € livery and took the opportunity to go to Buenaventura Naranjito to see ... the difference is that now bears © the camera ... so I bring them a couple of photos and some videos to see how to go forward my â € © â € œbebà ...

Within two weeks will meet 9 months ... so I will soon be riding ... well, I think that's why there will have to wait a little more s ...

The videos you take © to the photo camera is the first time I do so I hope you will like ... and ta © © perfecting technique ...

This is Kolibra II, speaks of à © l © the issue of pimps ... this old man has more than 25 year s ± os and muchÃsima race, is the son of Hummingbird in Jessica (Meteor / Battle) ... in its à © little was Grand champion of the National Association n º n year ... and your age, you will see the refinement, the pace and feel like walking ...

I have nothing to gain, I am the man who owns ± o and I have no part in this horse ... and if they insist on their potential how to pimp it because I've seen some children of à © l in mares for a walk ... and they are animals that podrÃan compete with registradosâ € â € œpuros in any of the entities ...

In the picture is dirty, no bathroom or combed ± ar ... just open the cage and throws © this photo to share with you ... Â you enjoy it!