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(SHOW REPORT) Lusitano Breed Show at Arena UK, Lincolnshire


Friday 14th June ‐ Sunday 16th June 2019 Photos taken by NAK Sports Images


The annual three-day Lusitano Breed Show in mid-June had a new venue this year, Arena UK in Lincolnshire. The splendid competition facilities provided space for extra classes and training clinics to be added to the schedule, attracting more than 100 horses, many of them first timers at the show. The Lusitano Breed Society of Great Britain offered 78 classes catering for everyone – from novice horses and riders to advanced Grand Prix competitors, youngstock to veteran horses, young riders to classes for the over 50s, with championships and special rosettes for amateurs. The showing and performance classes and a full day of dressage. including freestyle to music, were open to pure and part bred Lusitanos, Cruzados and invited classical breeds – mainly PREs, but Friesians and Lipizzaners also entered. A section for rescued horses enabled horses of Iberian origin to compete at the show. The two-day national affiliated Working Equitation competition, organised by the Association for British Working Equitation, was open to any breed. There are plans to add foreign breed classes next year. The first two days of the show also included clinics given by international trainers in classical dressage, in hand work, the Spanish freestyle dressage discipline of Doma Vaquera, how to show an Iberian in hand, Working Equitation obstacles training and the art riding a variety of movements with one hand on the reins, the other holding a Garrocha – the long wooden or bamboo pole carried by riders when herding livestock on farms in Spain and Portugal.


The evening entertainment on Friday and Saturday featured displays and demonstrations, including carriage driving, as well as competitions and championships. The Saturday Gala evening re-created the atmosphere of the famous Golegã Horse Fair in Portugal, with a Grand Parade where riders, many in traditional Portuguese riding costumes and their horses wearing elaborate saddles and bridles, showed off their best movements and party tricks to catch the eye of a panel of judges – including international judges from Spain and Portugal - who had seven trophies to award. The evening ended with a party with live music, Portuguese snacks and wine tasting. Top showing honours went to one of the youngest horses at the show, Oasis do Vale, owned by Luis Vilhena who is based in Essex, awarded a gold medal in the purebred Lusitano yearling colt class. Judge Eng. João Ralão Duarte, General Secretary of the APSL which controls the Lusitano Stud Book, awarded him the Youngstock Championship, then he beat the Champion Mare Dancarina, owned by Tess Hardy of Pakefield Riding School in Lowestoft, and Champion Stallion Don Soberano MT, owned by Jane Smithson and ridden by Justine Armitage from North Wales, to take the Champion of Champions title. This automatically gave him a place in the new National Lusitano Championship, open to purebred Lusos who qualified by winning Championships at Iberian, County and other major shows throughout the country since the 2018 Lusitano Breed Show. Oasis was the National In Hand Champion, then the National Supreme Champion, beating the National Ridden Champion, 9-year-old cremello stallion Figo Das Arcas, ridden by Sharon Woollaston and owned by Rob Payne from Cambridgeshire.Oasis was the show’s only gold medallist, but 11 silver medals were awarded. Medals can be given at the judge’s discretion to purebred Lusitanos of exceptional quality. Another new feature of the show was a parade of Lusitanos who have put the breed on the map in their chosen disciplines. They were presented with Outstanding Achievement Awards by João Ralão. All three horses featured in the Society’s annual Performance Awards, taking the Lusitano of the Year title in their chosen disciplines. Fadagosa, competing in a remarkable eight disciplines, also won the Ver- satility award and the Performance Lusitano of the Year title for achieving the most points overall, as well as the awards for show jumping, event- ing, hunter trials and mounted games. They also compete in Working Equitation, showing and dressage, and are training in a 9th discipline, polo. The Performance Awards are open, free of charge, to Lusitanos and Cruzados registered with the LBSGB and owned by members.


Holly Barber’s 10-year-old gelding Exparta D’Atela, the current National Advanced Working Equitation Champion, was placed 6th in the World Working Equitation Championships in Germany last year, helping team GB finish 5th, then this Spring won the individual silver medal and team GB bronze at an international contest in France, where they beat the World Champion to win the speed section. They competed for GB in a second discipline last year, winning a team silver medal at the Masters du Cheval Ibérique European Dressage Championship. Holly’s family own Pine Lodge School of Classical Equitation in Norwich.


60 SUMMER SEPCIAL 2019


Emma Pewter’s 21-year-old dressage stallion, San Rafael, was placed in both his classes - Medium and AdvancedMedium - at the MCI Europeans a few days after winning the BD Nettex Lusitano Prix St George Championship last Autumn. The Essex based pair regularly compete for England in the BD Senior Home Internationals, and this year qualified for the Petplan Advanced Medium Championships at the BD Winter Championships at Hartpury. Rafa took up dressage at the age of 15 after Emma bought him, having spent the previous 10 years as a hack.


Lesley Benyon’s nine-year-old mare Fadagosa from Shropshire won four national TREC championships last year and was Reserve Champion at both the Welsh and Scottish Championships, with a 3rd place in the GB Championship.


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