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Horse Riding Spain News
British Horse Magazine Competition 2011 & 2012
British Horse is the official magazine for the British Horse Society in Great Britain. This is a charitable institution that promotes the welfare of horses in general, particularly through education and training. HorseridingSpain is proud to have worked in partnership with British Horse once again and a lucky rider will stay with us for a week in 2011 or 2012 ! The Jul/Aug issue of the magazine featured this offer and our ranch.
Interviews on Dutch and Spanish TV !
Miranda and Giles have recently been interviewed by Spanish TV to promote the local Guadalhorce Valley and to show how a foreign couple have established themselves in Coin and have become well integrated in the local community.
Miranda was also interviewed by Dutch National TV for a lifestyle program on how to succesfully relocate to a foreign county.
It was great fun and the horses enjoyed the special attention !
BBC Children in Need
"The Unex Masters" is one of only five international showjumping events held in the UK each year, and "The Unex Masters" is held at the Unex Towerlands Equestrian Centre in Essex. This is the premier UK equestrian centre with international outdoor and indoor arenas and was the venue where the BBC filmed the now infamous "Only fools on horses". During the course of "The Unex Masters" competition it has become traditional that substantial amounts of money are raised for the BBC Children in Need Appeal. HorseridingSpain is happy and proud to have worked in partnership with the Unex Towerlands Equestrian Centre in playing a significant role in assisting in the raising of charity money for the Children in Need 2008 Appeal. Two lucky winners won a riding prize here at our ranch (the first prize), presented by Frankie Dettori MBE.
SACAB - National Breeder's Show of Purebred Spanish Horses in Coín
Coin annually hosts one of the largest horse breeder shows in Spain for the P.R.E. (Purebred Spanish Horse) Horse in the early Spring. Hundreds of horses and the best breeders from all over Spain converge on the town where national showing classes and competitions take place. A spectacular evening horse show is presented each night in addition to trade stands and breeders information desks. The event is now on a par with the famous SICAB event in Seville !
SACAB 2010: 8TH - 11TH OF
APRIL
The following article appeared in the 3rd-9th of April 2008 edition of "The Euro Weekly News"
"COIN HOSTS FIFTH EDITION OF HORSE FAIR
The horse fair was once again set up at the Cantarranas industrial estate on the outskirts of Coin, and the shows were held in a large tent with capacity for 2.500 people. Every day was packed with visitors of all ages who came to admire the magnificent animals.
The mayor of Coin, Gabriel Clavijo, presided over the inauguration, joined by member of the Junta de Andalucia and Coin Town Hall.
The mayor announced that the local Town Hall has reached an agreement with the Council of Employment to hold a course for professional horse breeders in the town, which he said would be an important step towards making Coin the Andalucian centre of equine excellence."
1st Spanish National Championship for "Doma Alta Escuela" or "High School Dressage"
was held in Coin
From 27th - 28th of October 2007 the first National Championship for Spain was held in Coin. The first posters announcing the competition were presented on 1st February
2007 at FITUR (annual International Tourism Fair in Madrid). Gabriel Jesus Clavijo, mayor of Coin, presided over the event, supported by José Luis de la Escalera, representing ANCCE (National Breeder's organisation for the Purebred Spanish Horse), Joaquin Fernandez, vice-president of the Spanish High School Association and Jose Fuentes representing the Royal Equestrian Federation of Spain, and Francisco Acedo, President of the Andalucian Equestrian Federation.
What is Alta Escuela or High School Dressage ?
Maria Alvarez Ponton makes history !
Spain's Maria Alvarez Ponton entered the endurance record books with a
convincing win at the FEI Open Meydan City European Endurance Championships in
Assisi, Italy this September 2009 ! She crossed the line in 8 hrs, 10 min. 58
sec. for an average speed of 19,5 km per hour over the 160 km course, becoming
the European and World individual reigning Endurance Champion at this time - the
first time one person has held both titles. Spain also took the team gold.
Sheikh Abdullah bin Faisal Al Qasimi of the UAE, came in second.
FEI World Equestrian Games 2010
Congratulations to Maria Ponton for winning the individual Gold Medal in
Endurance !
FEI World Equestrian Games 2006
Congratulations to Miguel Vila Ubach on Hungares riding for Spain, for his gold medal in the individual World Championship for Endurance.
Coin has once again hosted the SACAB horse festival, which brought more than 15.000 people to the town to see the best of the equine world. The fifth edition of SACAB, which is held every year in the town, included horse shows and competitions, and saw 350 horses from some of the best breeders in Andalucia.
"High School is dressage taken to its maximum expression. This maximum expression not only consists of the execution of more difficult and remarkably spectacular exercises, but rather, it is the attainment of the purpose of Dressage as a whole and all its intrinsic qualities. This definition is common to all the disciplines of dressage, but in Spanish High School Dressage there is an additional identity: the perpetuation of the artistic and cultural traditions of Spanish equitation. Spanish High School consists of collecting the horse in a way that maintains an ascending line of impulsion only possible by means of an acute descend of the croup, flexing the joints of the hind quarters and lightening and elevating the whole of the forehand, contact, gesture and expression. All the intrinsic qualities of the Spanish Horse, in addition to its character and brilliance of movement, are particularly gifted for this equestrian discipline."
By Mercedes González
HorseridingSpain, Apto de Correos 31, Coin 29100, Malaga, Spain
Tel: (0034) 952 455010 Mob: (0034) 606 373 229
email: info@horseridingSpain.com