01.25.10
Beautiful stallions videos
Dream stallions on youTube, by Anchored4…
Friesians in the snow… by SkylineFarm.
Gypsy Vanner stallions, from VillaVanners.
Friesians at play, the Forest Boyz by lauraz7 (Such clowns! other Forest Boyz vids featured on this blog previously)
Friesians and Gypsys, by raythegoth.
Lipizzaners in the actual Spanish Riding School, Spanische Hofreitschule, Vienna… posted by bayareabert.
(Yes it’s commercially-produced, but back when I was there the Germans did NOT allow tourists to take pictures during a performance. Verboten! They came after you if they saw a camera!) (It impresses me that they even did this performance; no audience in the galleries, strictly done for the video. Those Germans are so UN-commercialized that we had trouble even FINDING the building back around 1985, which we circled around twice on foot. We had a map. No SIGNS! If in America, there would have been a billboard and flashing neon lights, a huge parking lot, etc! This arena and its stabling is on the palace grounds in downtown Vienna.)
Andalusian stallion,PRE Pura Rasa, Level III dressage , by andalusier0.
Here I must comment that this boy enjoys his work and is handled kindly. You can tell because he is relaxed and is NOT swishing his tail. So many of the dressage horses go through their paces OK, all the while wringing their poor tails like a helicopter. IMO, they have no other way open to them to express how they feel, which is decidedly UNcomfortable– because they are held in check and controlled so strongly. I would not call them “willing partners.” That’s just my opinion… I am convinced, and this video is evidence, that you can get high level performances from a horse WITHOUT distressing him. Better still are the riders who can do it bridleless and bareback!
