Friday 29 January 2010

Guys from today; CALIFICADO & SMOKEY BLACK!



Above the impressive Nr 430 CALIFICADO stud
Below a special smokey black PRE stallion! Nr 461.




Thursday 28 January 2010

Reserved for Anna

Banderas Nr 409 is now reserved. A reservation can be made if the client want to secure the horse does not get sold. The deposit is 10% of the total price and will be returned in full if the horse does not pass the vetcheck, or if he/she is piropositive. The client recieve a receipt of the deposit stating the conditions.





Wednesday 27 January 2010

If Zorro can - I can!

Today we got the 'Antonio Banderas' story told to us. Banderas bought a new (grand needless to say) 'bodega' and was having some journalists there to interview him and take photos. He had invited some horses with their riders too. The horse-people watched a Banderas gallopping up and down, up and down. 'And that's pretty much all he did on the horse', the story teller told us. The horse-people looked at each other, they were all thinking the same - This is the great Zorro? Meanwhile one of the horse-persons were doing levadas on our fiery chestnut PRE stallion Nr 409 Banderas saw it and immidiately said - 'Give me that horse' Ok, the rider said, smilingly...Banderas sat up. Everyone were watching with great interest - can Zorro ride after all? He (Banderas) had the photographers placed in strategic locations, very close (horse people would think dangerous-close but not say it of course) and demanded them to take a GOOD shot. NOONE could leave until they had THE shot. This is the accomplishment of one BRAVE photographer for you that did not see it before, and here is me doing it today on 409. You should try it, if Banderas can do it, you can do it!

We present; Linda and Nr 387


This is Linda from Colorado. Linda called us last thursday. She wanted to know if Nr 387 could be tested for piro and we had him tested. The result came friday pm and he was negative, which is positive, as he can fly being negative.. See, negative is sometime positive! (no light without darkness) Linda could now start to think seriously if this horse was for her or not. She did not think too much, on the sunday she decided he was definitely for her. Congratulations to a excellent horse Linda, today he is yours!
Nr 387

Saturday 23 January 2010

Impressive Calificado stud stallion!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEdvZc4OQgA
Exclusive stallion. Calificado Stud i.e Qualified Reproductor (has passed TRC). Exceptional movements. Look at the balance, this one will not loose his rhythm no matter what you do - one classy horse!
See more Nr 453

Our first broodmare Reina XXXIV for sale!


Reina XXXIV born 1999
Filly Reina Vikinga born 2008
Reina XXXIV and chestnut colt born 2009
For more photos and video of Reina XXXIV, see here

Another piro-negative!







Nr 387 is a magnificent horse, he has absolutely no vices. He is trained by a professional competition rider that has set him up as a competition horse, he is now with his piaffe and passage, he is exceptionally talented. Only 5 years old.
He is turned out in paddocks every day, get the best food and is ridden in the countryside once a week. He is no stallion behaviours and is not bred.
As a PRE stud he has great value for his movements, conformation and colour. His dam is chestnut, his sire is black and he will most likely give interesting colours to his offpring. His sire is a famous stud that was sold to Mexico as one of the most expensive PREs ever.
For more information see Nr 387

Thursday 21 January 2010

Be happy

So now he is sold. Nr 454. We lost the opportunity to sell this fantastic horse and clients lost the opportunity to buy him. Naturally we want to sell all the quality horses there is, it is the most interesting for us personally and for our business. But for every client there are only so many candidates, and for us there are quite a few suitable to sell. This is the most frustrating situation. I am not going to say - hey - look at this fantastic horse - he is perfect for you - buy him - no, I will not. It is up to You to acknowledge the qualities of a horse, to see the match and make a decision. Why is sometimes so hard to make up ones mind. Is it is a matter of believing in oneself, to trust the gut feeling and make heart and head come together? I am definitely not saying - get impulsive head over heel - no, but I am saying - don't loose your opportunity when you see it. When you like what you see and you feel what you like, you go for it.
We once has a client that fell heavily, for a horse. Then he was sold. Client was beating herself up with why did I not buy this horse, he was my dream horse, he was MY horse. She bought 3 other dream horses from us. But they were not THE horse. So we relocated the now sold horse, convinced the owner he DID want to sell him and he was hers. This was a happy go lucky end, client got HER horse, however this is not the most straightforward way and not the most economical either..
Bonnie's horse Nr 114


First come first go. If you don't like, let go and move on to another horse here or there or elsewhere and see what he does for you. But if you do see your happiness in a horse - then go - and be first.
Congratulations, you made yourself happy.

Wednesday 20 January 2010

Gentle Cárdenas stallion




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjHubb2e6ro
Blending white branded Cárdenas stallion, does laterals, half pass in trot and canter and spanish walk. This is a quiet and a very gentle stallion that is 100% reliable to hack out and train with mares and other horses. He does not have stud qualities for breeding and his movements are limited, but he has a price accordingly, he is a horse for pleasure riding, for doing low levels of dressage and he has a very sweet and lovable personality!
Nr 413

Tuesday 19 January 2010

Antonio Banderas & our artist!


Here he is! Nr 409 & Antonio Banderas! Apparently this, now famous PRE, is the protagonist in the movie 'El Camino de los Ingleses' translate: 'The road of the Englishmen' (or something like that) directed in Spain by Antonio Banderas himself. If you see him (the horse?) you let us know!
Nr 409

Outlaw sheriffs?

Today was 'Guia-dia' the day when we have to go and get the transport certificate signed by the official agriculture department for getting the horses transported out of Spain. 'Guia-day' is normally not a good day. It is like a bullfight in byrocracy. Please can't we end all bullfights once and for all. To get these documents we need hundreds of transport details, drivers licence, truck license, desinfection certificate of th truck, routeplan with minute details, names of resting stables, postal codes etc, etc. Just to get people to send you all you need is a weeks work on the email. The office is in Madrid, 1,5 hours in the traffic. And that is if you DON'T get hit by a police car on Gran Via. Spanish whiplash Nr 2. In one millisecond I was out of the car, this is the second time my car get hit by a police and now I was not happy. I remembered the excrutiating pain and all the physio I had to do for whiplash Nr 1. I NEED MY NECK TO RIDE MY HORSES. If I was a wich I would have cursed these now frightened policemen that gave the pathetic excuse; 'There was something wrong with the brakes'. 'I AM SORRY is the word, I said (shouted) and now you go and get me the Guia!' Ambulance came, it was just in the way and causing more chaos and not necessary, whiplash is nothing you cure with an ambulance. Raining, raining, no spanish sun. There was a exaggerated amount of policecars which was abit confusing until we saw the men in handcuffs in the back of the policecar. Our car was stuck underneath that car.. A messy scene in front of all the fancy theatres. We got out. We got the Guia. And we got our videos of the horses at the pretty stables in the end of the nightmare bumpy road. Arnica, Ibuprofen and NIKKEN neck collar WILL make neck PERFECT. Tomorrow I AM riding my horses. I hope.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORZHxD7cWyM
Nr 379
This is a taylormade video for Chiaki, tomorrow her horse leaves for Germany, Malaysia to finally arrive to Singapore. Buen Viaje!

Friday 15 January 2010

Pure beauty!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd0j9z-e2oY
Nr 454
A quality Cárdenas stud, ridden, driven and bred!

Thursday 14 January 2010

Intimidad's daughter for sale!



This is Mimosa, a very exclusive young lady with excellent bloodlines - and she is jet black without no white markings!
Mimosa is a elegant and beautiful filly. Her sire is a totally black stallion with bloodlines decending from Albero II, Marín Garcia. Her dam is our black mare Intimidad by the unique Delegado Mac - the only black bred and branded Cárdenas stallion. Her grandsire is Endrino, a stud with over 250 offspring, he was sold to México.
Mimosa was meant be the broodmare of a recently founded studfarm but because of personal reasons they now have to sell their breeding stock. She could also be a mare for riding as she is elegant and will be a tall mare, has a wonderful temperament and is very easy to handle. For you that wanted but could not not buy Intimidad, you now have a great opportunity to buy her first offspring!
Mimosa Nr 459
For photos and video of her dam here

Thursday 7 January 2010

He loves to move and do stuff!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNjLmjV3I7U
He is born 2004!!
For more info see here; Nr 457

We present; The GOOD rider..



Nr 284


Nr 327
Mrs Leslie Reid has done 3 Olympic games and 3 Pan American Games for Canada winning the Individual Gold Medal in 2003 in the Dominican Republic! We told you she was a GOOD rider!
Nr 452
Leslie was the first rider to qualify for Canada's 1996 Olympic team and in November of 1996 she captured the Volvo World Cup Dressage Canadian League Final, and, although unable to attend, won the right to represent Canada.
She broke, trained and competed a bay dutch warmblood gelding called 'Mark', and became Canada's most successful dressage rider.
In 2003, Leslie and Mark, won team and individual gold at the Pan American Games in the Dominican Republic. She became a member of the Canadian Olympic team showing at the Games in Athens. They won the 2004 Dressage at Devon CDI, the Canadian League World Cup Finals and finished second in the Consolation Freestyle at the 2005 World Cup Finals in Las Vegas.
Now Leslie has bought this very talented young PRE stallion from us and here is the story;
We saw the horse the day before we had to leave for SICAB and sent a email saying we had found what we wanted for her. We viewed the horse in our stables a thursday in the evening and Javier and I agreed (special occasion) it would be more intelligent to buy this horse rather than selling him..
Silence and Leslie said; 'Let's see if he does the canter backwards too!' Which was an interesting request, we have sold a horse that did spanish walk backwards and I thought that was quite extravagant. This young-super-talent did do flying changes, half pass in trot and canter, spanish walk and even though he did not do the canter backwards he did do a extended trot that made us all think - wooow, this horse is mine! Only a very talented horse can perform with such ease, lightness and balance. Later on in the evening we had the vet drawing blood to have a pirotest done, next evening we got the results and he was piro-free, Javier and I definitely felt ambivalent about that result as if he would have been positive he would have been our horse but, with this result clients go first. On the saturday we all attended the 4 hour long 45+ xrays vet. exam which he passed.

So Nr 1 on our Best-Movements-Ever-Seen list will go to Canada, we found the right horse for the right client, when things are flowing they are meant to be, congratulations!




Nr 451
Summary; We are delighted Leslie and Brian got this horse (Nr 451), we are also very excited as he is a wonderful representative of the PRE race and also for us, and, that he will get the great opportunity to be professionally trained by Leslie. We can't wait to see him fly! We wish Leslie and Brian much success and many happy rides.

Wednesday 6 January 2010