Dressage (part 2) ...
Posted in Paso Fino , dressage by Romualdo
A few days ago that Atty. Quijano invites ³ to comment on how to develop our skills of Paso Fino ... also © n has made a number of very interesting observations on the subject Doma denim pole vault ... it's very interesting how to these two issues, as different from s invite us to reflect on one of the problems we face in our race: the functionality of our horses ...
I invite you to watch this new video on vaqueraâ € â € œDoma for highlighting what I mean ...
I remember when I was a girl or my grandfather tenÃa ± a horse son of Eve
called Chocolate ... it was on this horse that my cousins and I learned really what I was riding a horse Paso Fino ... like Chocolate was layer ³ n (castrated), couldnâ € ™ t compete in the events of Paso Fino or fine forms, but my grandfather competÃa regularly in the category of Conditions ... of course, this was when my grandfather was using to go horseback riding with friends or œvoltearâ € â € the farm ... Chocolate was a true representative of our race ... even Chocolate was one of horses that we â € ³ â € œrepresentà at Madison Square Garden in the early â € ™ 60 ... 
Chocolate, like many horses of his à © Little, was a horse functional ... because cumplÃa fully the function n for which habÃa developed the race ... there is no doubt that our race has evolved, but I wonder: our horses,  are they still functional? ...
PermÃtanme give you another example ... for Cesar Figueroa (Cesar he worked ³ with us for many year ± os and lived ³ on our farm until a year ± o), his pride was tame a horse so that he could mount any person ... decÃa à © l it was ascertained that the ability of the editor, to fix a horse to work so well if the rider regardless of skill ... this contrasts with some of the horses we see today in day, we find qualified horses, horses that only work with an editor that â € œThe especÃfico entiendeâ € ...
I think one reason for this is that many of the Duea ± I â € œmodernosâ € do not care to ride ... and therefore, our horse has gone from being a riding horse to be a horse of exhibition n ... I Sadly, that has the qualities to be both, but neither breed nor domamos for that ...
Therefore it is very important to be aware of the function n for which it was developed our race ... and this awareness should be reflected both in choosing the crosses in the recrÃa, as in the time to fix our horses and judge them on the dance competition ...













Chocolate: For their owners. I have a photo that great horse riding just before leaving on a ride in circa 1964. Site: Hacienda de Don Ramon Ruiz Cestero. Photo available for the family of their owners. Note: Now I come to know that chocolate was a cousin of our champions, Allegretto and Adagio.