Take note, FEI judges. *THIS* is the kind of Dressage we need to see in the ring. Correctness, suppleness, and good collection. You guys KNOW what poor training looks like. You know what it results in. Start giving penalties for it, and start rewarding well-started and properly trained Dressage.
The way of going that these horses have is so very different from the usual dressage competitions that are held these days. Relaxed, swinging stride, properly collected...no comparison. This is the way they should look...beautiful!
FEI you should be promoting more of this and less of the disgusting modern techniques from people who have little to no idea of what they’re doing. ❤👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thinking they need to 100% dump ALL their judges - dressage has become just another money wheel. And the horses suffer more n more, for it. And the judges? And other professionals profit...
So glad that you’ve been able to preserve this culture. Given that Europe has had two world wars and subsequent difficult economic recoveries, the Cold War and its economic impacts, and all economic and political upheavals it’s really amazing you’re still there.
I have loved horses all my life! I became fascinated with them after a Disney movie “Miracle of the White Stallions “that depicted how the mares were rescued with General Patton’s okay and help. After that I read everything I could find about them! I did get to see a performance in Florida in the 1960s. Not as grand as here, but it thrilled a young girl!❤️
Thank You All for showing and sharing outstanding horses, skills, riding and the Traditions that surround this school of horsemanship and beautiful horses.
I’ve been fortunate enough to do dressage on one of these horses when I visited and I can definitely confirm they are amazing and the trainers are incredible!
This is SO Beautiful! How Loved and Cared for these Lippizaners are 💝 I have always Loved the Amazing Lippizaners! Incredibly Elegant and Filled with True Grace. Love this video-Thank You 💝🐴 ~
I saw them at the Spanish Riding School in Austria. We were able to go into the stables and see the horses.The stable attendant spoke with us telling us about the sires and the riders and the close bonds they have with their horses. Our General from America was instrumental in saving these horses during the war.
So beautiful to see these horses, surroundings, stable and training. I really LOVE Lipizzans and are growing up with them here in Sweden. I started riding them as a eight years young little girl ❤.
truly beautiful & talented horses! i’ve watched them several times when i was younger & they are just gorgeous. i love seeing well loved & mild tempered horses, they are so much easier to train it seems, as long as they have the trust & relationship with their human ❤😊
Having been fortunate enough to have been the human companion of a few horses , I am thrilled and encouraged to see the way these exquisite horses are trained, it is as near to perfection as any human can hope to aspire. I’ve been able to ride most disciplines over the years (now in my 70 s) from eventing to side saddle and latterly to natural horsemanship. I’m hopeful that this empathetic way of schooling will filter into the wider equestrian culture. Let’s stop riding to impress the wider world , let’s work with our equines to show how it can be done without domination. And to say “ look at this beautiful horse !”” NOT “ how clever am I “.
I love Piber, Austria. The Mares come there in the summer and relax with the babies, born black and they turn white. I feel blessed to have spent time with these amazing horses in their holiday home.
This is amazing. Thank u so much for being so good to this beautiful creatures. God's creation of course. I'm loss for word's. This is sooooo amazing I love this horses. I have the pleasure to watch them one time perform in TN. Years ago. I was so impressed I cry to see them because they are so intelligent and beautiful. Thank u thank ,thank u. God bless ❤❤❤❤❤
I saw them the first time when I was was a little girl and was in awe of them. I'm 70 years old now and still in awe of them ! Thank you for this video.
I have been in Lipica in1968 when they let the Lippizaners out into the courtyard where we were standing. It was an exhilarating moment and we had time to get close to them. I will never forget that wonderful experience.
I have seen these magnifcent beings in person i got to pet one and see them perform they are etheral magical like a pegasus they have a group in Florida's very interesting story and history so smart
Balkans made so many beautiful breeds like the magnificent lipizzaner horse, but let me tell ya, I balkans hold another subgroup of horses bred from Bosnia. You see stables in borike were very famous for breeding local Bosnian horses, but they wanted to try bring arabians to the area, but they couldn't cope with climate, so they bred them with local horses and we got very strong but beautiful horses, fast and elegant as arabian but strong as local ones. They are true gems of that region that even local people try to convince government as new breed. But in 2019 stables closed and horses were left there, hungry and all, but people bought them and even one man from foča bought 20 of those horses and brought them into his plateau near canyon of Tara River.
I Love white horses 🤍🤍 Because it is so beautiful and divine !! Dressage is also great. They are very well cared for and cherished !! I think the white horses that live here are very happy!!
I really enjoyed this video, but that was my very first thought as well... It looked like they were leather, so maybe they'd have a slight chance at snapping it where as nylon wouldn't budge, but why take the chance?? It's an unnecessary risk that has zero benefits...
@@carolmiller5713 Different strokes, apparently, bc I've had several, and I've never turned my horses out with a halter. When it's time to collect them, I go into the paddock and secure the gate before haltering and re-opening. If there's more than one (which there usually is), I get them one by one. I can't remember the last time I had one go rogue, lol, but it's definitely happened. It's kind of just a "roll my eyes" and "you're playing this game today" situation and comes with the territory. If you've ever seen a horse hung up, you'll NEVER chance it happening again.
Why don't you take the annoying halters off the poor horses when they go into the paddocks & let their faces have a rest from straps! The halters could get caught in things & hurt their faces! I saw these wonderful horses perform in 1976. From an Aussie.
Exactly. With hoofs, ankles/fetlocks and knees/hocks being the weak points, you know that's where they're most vulnerable, is it worth the risk, as once something happens it's a challenging recovery for any animal that large.
Plus they don't break their horses until they are 7. Their training starts around 4. Yea gods someone actually lungeing a horse correctly WITH SIDE REINS.
Oh, God, you created the horse and mankind and mankind, took it to a new level. As our planet is destroyed by us, please save the horses and those that take care of them. I ask this in your precious son, Jesus name. Amen.
Need to upgrade your style don't change your what ever but need to add more of what they can do. All horses can do just about anything you train them to do. Granted shorter horse can't jump as high as the longer legged one but they still can jump. They can pull wagon or cart . They only thing your showing is they do dressage. You can keep your home base the same. But go to some of those other school that teaches tricks and thing people don't know the lipizzans for. And I seen the lipizzans perform back in 60s and what I've seen on video is not what I seen as a kid. I think you're trainer's need more schooling as to what those horses can do. Send some to Pat pirelli with your rider's you can train a quarter horse to do dressage and you can train a lipizzan to rope cattle
Actually, it was Colonel Hank Reed with 2nd Cavalry Mechanized was in full motion of "Operation Cowboy " to save the Lippizaners. He eventually got the approval from General George Patton because Patton also loved horses like Hank Reed.
I must say this horses are brilliant and full of proud. The horses are amazingly humble and a perfect teacher. They dont have a mean bone and are verry caring of their rider. You can easily put up a child and their main goal is taking care of that child. With that said it is not a beginner horse since they wont a leader. Also be aware of crossings Arabia fullbread and Lipizzan is not a good cross. Yes there are full bread in it since the beginning but if your unlucky you can get the arab disposition with the lipizzan size and integrity. My first horse was a cross and since it was poorly handled the first 6 years he had not build up the trust that is between horse and human so it took me 7 years for him to fully trust me, and that was only me! With that said he was true gentleman and never hurt a fly. He was my soulmate. May he RIP ❤
A good fiction book about this is Airs Above the Ground by Mary Stewart. Since reading it as a girl, I have always wanted to see the Lippizan stallions perform. I hope I can someday.
Amazing I saw them twice in person one time I was in the front Ro there wasn't a lot of the dressage what we just saw it was a very exciting show with the horses rearing up and kicking and jumping and the Riders on him and the Riders not on them it was pretty awesome and they were saying on the loudspeaker these were the news that were trained for battle the horse was the kick out in front and back to knock the opponent's out I miss that on this anybody wants to understand more about that there's a movie were they showed the monks rescuing the Mayors in the stallions I'm sorry I can't remember the name of it and it wasn't Mayer's it was the mares that was during World War 1 or 2 I couldn't remember I'm glad I have a t-shirt with a stallion a lipizzaner but there's also a Andalusian
The stud farm for the SRS is in Piber. Horses for the School are bred there. How did that happen? Aftermath of WWII: As many of the horses at Lipica which could herded to the west as the Russian Army approached German held territory were "rescued" and protected by the US Army. Not all. Looking at a map of the end of WWII helps given Slovenia's boundaries. Piber was established in Osterreich as the stud farm for the School with the Slovenian herd. Because Slovenia was held by the USSR as a satellite nation, the two herds -- those left in Slovenia and those at Piber -- developed separately for decades. Separate stud and mare books but all of the same foundation names: Pluto, Siglavy, Conversano, Maestoso, Favory, Neopolitano. I spent many years riding at the SRS as a student and at Lipica too: it is possible to be a student at each. The training is the same from the same training statement written several hundred years ago. The only difference is the size of the riding staff: the SRS Quadrille is eight and four at Lipica. Which means some of the complicated forms -- the canter squares, for example -- cannot be done. When Austria joined the EU and had to conform its laws and budget, it was close to ending the SRS since all of the funding for the School was by government funding: all in the staff were government employees as an example. Only a small portion came from entry fees for performances. The citizens of Vienna fought back and funding was found but only due to "significant changes" at the School which upset many but kept it afloat.
@@EffiHD The SRS gets first choice of the horses bred at Piber. The horses bred at Lipica have the same foundation lines and the school there is run on the same classic principles. There are Lipp breeders in the UK and the US. breding stock purchased in Lipica and Piber.
USSR satellite nation? It was comunist country but there was no love between Tito and Stalin. Stalin ordered several assassination attempts on YU president, because he went on a different path. So I wouldn't say it was a satellite. ;)
@@Cricket2731 Being forced to hold unnatural or unrelaxed body positions for extended periods of time, including being kept is small enclosures when your natural inclination often is to run, stretch out and roll at any given time, just like a horse would and who happens to also be a herd animal, meaning they usually like to exist together in herds for a good portion of their days. Try some unnatural body positions on yourself and see what that's like.
It may be possible that professional experts, with centuries of tradition and care for the horses, might just know a little bit more than you. In that case, you may just be five or more points above stupid.
@@carolmiller5713 I have personally seen two foals that got their legs caught in their dam's halter - one was freed in time but had terrible scarring on his foreleg from the halter, and the other had to be euthanized because he broke his fetlock. Just because you don't agree with what I say, don't assume I'm speaking from a position of ignorance.
@@carolmiller5713 my gelding. Older. In pasture w halter. Never had prob prior. Sent bl heeler out to bring him in? Dog came back w no horse. I went out to see? And found he had caught the halter on a fence post? Twisted his head to rub it push it off and it twisted, and he'd ducked under it twisted again? And the halter had gotten so twisted so tight onto his face and the fence post? He was well n truely stuck. He was blowing smoke out of his ears over it he was so frustrated. Did not leave his halter on him any more after that. Had kids, a foal, ponies, quarters, 2 yr olds, bunch of horses over the years. He was only one got in trouble w the halter. We cld discuss other horrors.. But basically the horses did ok here. At 1 point I had some local low i.q. tossing empty glass wine bottles into the pasture. I tossed em back out onto the dirt road... and that stopped it damned fast...;(
