HOOF PRINTS The Quarterly Newsletter of the Eastern Region Andalusian Horse Club ERAHC Fall 2010 2010 ERAHC Classic Shows ERAHC’s 2010 Classic shows in Lexington, Virginia, were— well—classic. All three shows were smaller than they have been in past years, but that just seemed to leave more time to visit with old friends and make new ones. There were still many who have been involved with the show since the beginning of ERAHC in 1992—18 years ago! Thursday’s open dressage show went like clockwork, which is what one comes to expect from any dressage show. Classes ran the gamut from Intro A to Grand Prix, with 30 horse-and-rider teams participating. The Classic breed show presented 70 classes over two days, with 206 entries. Not bad for a “slow” year. The classes mostly were smaller than they have been in the past, with one to eight entries in each. What was distinctly different was the preponderance of pleasure owners rather than breeders. Also notable was the larger number of IN THIS ISSUE: Page Classic Show Report 1 Lusitanos than in the past. In any case, the quality of horses Breed Show Results 5 was no less than in years past. And our judge—Wayne Dressage Show Results 21 Hipsley—was complimentary of the turnout of horses, Region 6 Breed Show Errata 26 handlers, and riders. So the show was classy, too. Classified Ads 26 Those participants with whom I spoke (and there were Member Directory in the works 26 many) expressed their pleasure with the show, and Kudos and Congratulations 27 everyone said they had fun. The general consensus on the Spanish Triumph at the WEG 27 Anderson Coliseum (which some had feared might change the show atmosphere) was that it was a terrific venue. One ground movement,” a once-popular high school trick. For person even said it was like being at Nationals. Of special modern dressage, however, the back legs need to be note was the presence of a younger generation, including strengthened separately, which can be accomplished with third-generation Crystal Majewski, whose family is lots of lateral work and flexion. celebrating it’s 50th year of involvement with Andalusian It became clear that Working Equitation is rapidly horses. There were observers, too, some of whom were growing in popularity. All three phases were completed on visiting an ERAHC show for the first time. Some were Saturday. It was my first opportunity to watch this scouting with plans for next year’s shows; others were just discipline, and I was impressed with the quality of the curious. Old hands in the audience, like myself, managed competitors. One thing I found interesting was seeing which to make a lot of noise in support of the exhibitors. After all, obstacle presented the greatest difficulty: not the bridge, nor we had a shared vision. the gate, nor the lance, but a simple table with a pitcher. Friday afternoon featured a clinic with Tina Veder and Quite a crowd of observers gathered ringside outdoors for Bruno Gonzales of Caballos de los Cristiani in which they the dressage, obstacles, and speed tests. The weather was discussed the training and conditioning of Iberian horses for the finest I have experienced in twelve years at the show, dressage. Horses at different levels of development were but a fairly brisk breeze presented some unexpected used to illustrate how to warm up to reduce the tension in a glitches: balls that were perched on pedestals in order to be horse’s back that can lead to lameness, how to use lateral knocked down with the lance took on a life of their own. work to supple a horse, how to reward a horse by relaxing Added to the experience at the Region 6 show, it suggests your hands after collection, and how to help a horse that we should consider holding this indoors next year. achieve self-balance in order to take its weight off the Saturday evening’s festivities kicked off with a display forehand. Bruno also described how Iberian horses often of Doma Clásica by dressage rider and trainer Felicitas von canter with their back legs close together, a feature that was Neumann-Cosel and chestnut Lusitano stallion Tonico do encouraged at one time because it facilitated “ground-to- Top of Cedar Rowe Lusitanos. 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Exhibitors of ship and warrior Iberian horses can benefit from learning how to show skills by Bruno horses in this manner, even though IALHA regulations for Gonzales riding halter classes differ somewhat. The advantage comes from Lusitano stallion learning to free up one’s horse for display. Spanish judge Tejo II VA and Ignacio Bravo Garcia, in his first visit to our show, classical riding in delivered the kind of careful consideration and scoring for traditional Portu- which our Iberian judges have become famous, so guese bullfight- competitors came away with valuable information about ing costume by the conformation and morphology of their horses. mainstay exhib- Sunday afternoon featured a question-and-answer itor Janet Tenney session with Sr. Garcia, with Kathy Waldo as translator. on the palomino The discussion ranged through topics such as handling, Lusitano stallion Tambore HM. The evening wrapped up quality of horses in the U.S.