THE HORSE GAZETTE
mEMOIRS OF MARY
Training without force
men, woman & horses i have known
By Mary Rose, FBHS © 2009
That is the title of my some futile efforts to visit the been in training 11 months! His
new book - with apologies to school. Nuno Oliveira was then performance was mind blow-
Steve Donahughe, champion 31 years old and did, in fact, ing. He entered the arena in
jockey in England in the early compete in shows (quite often in canter, heading straight down
part of the 20
th
Century whose jumping) and prepared students center towards the Royal Box
book was entitled Men and for shows and also exhibitions. where the Queen was seated.
Horses I Have Known and was Years later he proudly showed He then made sixteen perfect
a favorite of my father’s. me photos of himself and his pirouettes followed by a bow
Several of my friends students competing. He also to open his performance! The
have come out with their “tell trained horses for the bull fight, display was amazing, including
all” memoirs recently and I have which might surprise his devo- everything of course - piaffer,
been thinking of writing mine tees today but the Portuguese passage, flying changes every
for some time but I’m afraid I bull fight is a very sophisticated stride round and round the
might have to wait till after I’m dance in which the horse must huge arena, Spanish walk and
dead to publish it if I really DO exhibit unbelievable bravery Spanish trot … After his final
tell all! coupled with incredible agility bow and salute to the Queen
Karen Brown’s piece and speed. If a horse is touched he left the stadium backwards,
about Past Masters in which she by the bull the crowd would with arms outstretched, in a It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen before!
featured Nuno Oliveira got me boo the bull fighter out of the perfectly straight trot to the
onto this subject. Growing up ring and yet the bull must pass rear!
in England in the 1940’s and so close to the horse that the The English are
50’s and being ‘horse mad’ I rider can place the darts on his known to be somewhat re-
We’re not just a feed store, or western wear,
was aware of Nuno Oliveira but shoulders! No wonder Nuno served but the whole crowd
knew little about him on my first was in demand to train these was on its feet cheering and
hardware, tack, house wares, lawn and garden
visit to Portugal in 1956. I went super athletes! clapping and shouting in a most
to spend the summer with the In 1966 Nuno Olivei- un-English manner! They, and
family of my best friend in high ra came to London to perform the press were blown away,
or gifts...we’re ALL of that and MORE!
school who was a Portuguese at The Horse of The Year Show. and I was captivated for life -
girl. Her father was a professor At that time this ten day show this was what I wanted to learn,
at Oxford University (I grew up held each October was the cul- this communion of horse and
There’s something for everyone Callahan’s!
in Oxford) and we had become mination of the show season rider where the visions of the
inseparable - which surprises in Europe and it was always a rider are flawlessly executed
me a little as I look back because huge, spectacular, international and exhibited by the horse
she wasn’t into horses at all. event. Nuno brought two horses - where horse and rider truly
The family lived in to London - one of them was the become one, a centaur!
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