Tiburón
Tiburón was born in the Spanish province of Cádiz in 1993. I bought him
there in spring of 97. After half a year of initial training he came to Germany.
Although he came from a very different climate he has adapted very well to the rather
un-Spanish winter weather here. He loves to play in the snow.
In spring of 99 we became members of the show group
Cavalleria I'Barock. It is a
group of Spanish, Portuguese and Frisian horses ridden in classical dressage style.
For us that meant: learning to go into a horse box and buying one so we can go to the group's training sessions. It took a little while but since June we are mobile and ready to go wherever there's fun.
This is what we've done since then:
1999
May: Féria I'Barock
June: Trail competition and cross country parcours at Bühl with Dörthe
July: Knights' Tournament at Kaltenberger
2000
June: Performance at Baroque Horse Festival at Neu-Anspach near Frankfurt
June: 1250 year anniversary at Gundelfingen
September: move to Lustnau. Goodbye Cartoon by Kathrin.
December: Performance at Christmas celebration Riding Club Weil der Stadt
December: Performance at Christmas celebration Tübinger Reitgesellschaft
2001
April: Day of the Horse, Riding Club Heimsheim
May: Trail competition Riding Club Weil der Stadt: 1. Place
May: Performance at Stuttgart Horse Fair
June: Performance at Baroque Horse Festival at Neu-Anspach near Frankfurt
July: Performance Summer Fair Reiterhof Toll Münklingen
October: Performance at Böblingen Riding Club competition
October: Performance at inaugural party Schloßhof Holzgerlingen
November: Jumping course with Guntram Hacker Riding Club Pulvermühle
December: Performance at Christmas celebration Riding Club Weil der Stadt
December: Performance at Christmas celebration Tübinger Reitgesellschaft
2002
February: two-page article about Cavalleria I'Barock in the horse magazine "Pegasus"
May: Performance at Stuttgart Horse Fair
May: Performance at Baroque Horse Festival at Neu-Anspach
June: Performance Horse Fair at Ludwigsburg
July: Performance Summer Fair Reiterhof Toll Münklingen
July: Performance at Spanish Féria at Deschenhof
October: Orientation ride at Poltringer Reitverein: 10. Place
November: passed "kleines Reitabzeichen" (DRA IV) (I haven't found the right translation yet, any suggestions?)
2003
January: Solo performance with neckring at an anniversary in Tübingen
February: I'Barock performance of four at Heilbronn Horse Market
March: Tibby is diagnosed with arthrosis in the right knee. He had an arthroscopy on the 26th that showed that his crucial ligament is torn and the meniscus partly torn which is the reason for his arthrosis. Although he was doing quite ok for a few days, his condition got worse after a week, the knee filled again. So after discussing it with the vet we decided to put him to sleep to save him another operation more pain and and a nonetheless insecure future.
Adiós hombre, te echaré de menos.
I couldn't stand the horse-less time for long and started looking for a fiery stallion. After some searching in Spain and Germany, I brought home a pretty little mare on May 29. She is called Zahara and has her own Website.
A few interesting pages on horses in German and English:
Die Barockbox
Cavalleria I'Barock
Los Criollos Argentinos
Equimundo Horsefair
Deschenhof Studfarm
an English Doma Vaquera Site with nice pics
GaWaNi Pony Boy's Website
Hofreitschule Bückeburg
Horseman Hartmut
Interessengemeinschaft der Vielseitigkeitsreiter in Baden-Württemberg e.V.
Die Koppel
Landesgestüt Marbach
Marbacher Vielseitigkeit
Marquis hoof boots
Multilingual Horse Dictionary
Real Escuela Andaluza del Arte Ecuestre in Jerez
riding vacation in Andalucia at my friend Conny's
Tübinger Reitgesellschaft
Zingaro
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