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Our stable here is called the Royal Horse Club,

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because Royal is the first horse my parents bought

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when I was 9 years old.

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And therefore, I decided when I opened the stable to dedicate it to him

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because he is the horse from which it all started.

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Unfortunately, this horse abandoned me at the age of about 18,

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after racing injuries where he had had a tendon rupture.

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At the time, as there are no technologies that exist now,

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it was a pretty big breakup ...

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for a horse, which precluded his career is ...

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agonistic that, let's say,

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her career as a walking horse limited her very much.

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In fact, at first I gave up competition for this horse,

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then, using it as a walking horse

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the problems have come back,

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we have chosen to put this horse on the pasture

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and eventually ended the years of his life there.

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The sad thing is that in the moment

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this horse has practically left me,

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I remember I was competing in Cortina

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and the horse was in a stable in Belluno.

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I was practically following some guys in competition

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and I received a call from the owners of the stable

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telling me that the horse, lying down, never got up again.

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We left Cortina and came running to Belluno

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to try to understand what had happened ...

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And the horse, practically waited for us to arrive,

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after that, he had had a collapse, cardiocirculatory

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and he could no longer stand up.

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I will always remember the scene where the horse practically looked at me,

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he raised his head and looked at me.

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And, with tears running down her eyes

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he leaned against me as I tried to support his head

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and in the end, he took his last breath there.

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And this is a scene that really remained to me ...

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in the heart, even if it's the bad part of this job,

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to have the loss of horses but in that moment,

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what happened to my first horse that I was very fond of,

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I made the choice to make it, in quotes, immortal

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dedicating something to him that could remain in memory and ...

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that something, in my small way, was the name of the stable.

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In our management we use the paddocks a lot,

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which are the outdoor enclosures for horses.

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And indeed, we have a management where the horse

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spends the best part of the day,

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exactly from morning until evening at dusk, outside in the pasture.

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Very often in summer, if there are nice evenings,

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they also do the same night outside, so they stay out 24 hours a day,

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climate permitting because in the summer you can do it.

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Unlike many stables they use

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the horse keeping it only inside the box ...

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Some for space limitation,

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others for different reasons, mentality or points of view,

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obviously everyone has his point of view.

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We use a management that is external precisely for ...

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allow the horse, which is a herd animal,

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to maintain their sociability with their fellow men.

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We have paddocks where horses have yes,

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the possibility of socializing with one's fellowmen and with one's neighbors,

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but everyone has their own paddock,

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so your own space to prevent ...

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in this creation of hierarchies

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maybe go and hurt each other, kicking each other or ...

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to decide who is predominant between the two

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So it has been proven that anyway, this mentality for horses

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it is a real cure-all, in the sense that

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by staying outside, the horse suffers less stress than a horse

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left all day in the box,

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gets distracted, relaxes and consequently,

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these aspects also have their own interface when you

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go to work the horse,

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because you find it more relaxed, more willing to do

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what you ask him, he does things much more willingly for which

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it's all a system, a very different management

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which in the long run leads you to results.

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And, we can say that, we have noticed, in short, of this thing.

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Nereid is the currently most historic mare,

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because, she is the third mare to join the stable

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even when the stable was in Conegliano.

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She arrived as a mare up for adoption,

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because she comes from a somewhat troubled past, in the sense that she was ...

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in quotation marks, abandoned by the stable that held it.

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She was reused as a riding mare in a stable

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in Trentino.

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And then, in the end, there too,

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she had the misfortune of being abandoned in this stable by the owners.

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She came to me as a saddle mare. I took it

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I adopted her and, now, she is one of our two flagship horses of the school.

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Because there is her and Piddu who are the two horses we use for our students.

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Let's say she was one of the first three horses in the main core

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from which the whole project started when we were in Conegliano.

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And now, she accompanied us here,

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to move forward with our students, young and old.

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Let's say that in the Italian stables this is the part

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which is normally delegated to what we call the 'groom'.

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The person who takes care of boxing horses ...

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The management of a real stable in the field.

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While the knight maybe takes care ...

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more than anything else to ride and work horses.

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Here we do everything ...

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There is no 'groom' because we are the 'groom'.

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In foreign stables it works like this:

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the rider has his ten horses to look after

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and he has to take care of ...

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from the box to assembling them, working them, following them ...

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from the veterinary point of view,

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so he has to take care of everything about those ten horses.

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And here, we work a little with this in mind.

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This is a new little horse that has just arrived, her name is Bionda,

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she and she is a guest of our structure.

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Now you will have to do a quarantine period as,

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also for our horse friends it is a bit sad period

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because, even in the equestrian world, recently,

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in a stage of the FEI circuit in Spain,

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a pandemic has broken out on an equine level

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concerning rhinopneumonia.

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A virus that we, in the equestrian environment, have known for some time

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but which has evolved into a form ...

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neurological virus which becomes very dangerous for horses.

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So, as a precaution

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now all the stables with the horses just ... entered,

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they will have to follow a quarantine period in order to

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make sure the new entrants into the stable

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do not report any symptoms of these pathologies,

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as they become very transmissible from horse to horse.

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As Covid is for us, also for them ...

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it is transmissible through the breath and therefore ...

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not being able to wear masks like us ...

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they must be very spaced and far from each other.

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So she's going to have a period in an isolated box

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and then, if there are no complications and nothing,

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she will be reinserted together with our horses in the other part of the stable.

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This is Roger, one of my horses.

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Exactly it is my horse, which I use for competitions and competitions.

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He is currently 17/18 years old.

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In the past he had an injury,

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a fracture of the suspensory tendon of the fetlock at the age of seven

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while he did the seven-year circuit.

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And it was a bit of a bet to take it, because we took it

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when the horse was still completely stopped ...

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following this tendon rupture.

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And then he was sorted through ...

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of therapies, such as Tecar.

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Quite innovative therapies in the world of horses.

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And I must say that I have never had more problems with him

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on the contrary, he never limped again and never gave problems ...

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through this therapy and a ...

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good management of the aplomb at the foot level

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and a correct shoeing.

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He is a horse that is still in competitive activity.

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Jump, one meter and fifteen - one meter and twenty races ...

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with me.

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He is a fairly characterful horse and particular in his nature ...

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because ... he has a philosophy, on his part, as a pack leader ...

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and therefore, to understand it, we must try to find a mediation ...

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regardless of him.

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It happened to me the first time I took it,

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the previous knight who mounted it before says to me:

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<i> "Look, this is a little stubborn horse, he's a little ... </ i>

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<i> particular to take, you have to take a little bit and import on him ". </i>

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Which I tried to do but in reality failed big time.

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Because he has a character for which you have to put yourself on the same level

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and you have to try to ... make him understand that ... you cooperate with him.

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You must not impose yourself, nor let him impose himself

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but try to work both on the same level.

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It's a job ... that needs to be very diversified ...

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on the fact of the jumps, you must not force, you must not ...

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you still have to try to ... diversify his work

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with work ... in freedom, rope work, assembled work,

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work on the flat, work in the countryside,

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so that he doesn't get annoyed.

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It is also worth leaving it out a lot, giving it the chance ...

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in quotation marks, to have fun with your head,

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and this is a real cure-all ... for horses.

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And in fact here is a little ... our philosophy

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for how we keep horses.

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Let's try to keep them ... in one state

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where the horse faces the horse, where the horse is ...

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however in his nature ... to be a horse.

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So standing out in the paddock, standing close to each other.

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And it is a philosophy that works very well with many horses,

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from Roger, to others we have here.

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They are all horses that maybe ... have had ... problems.

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These are horses that have had ... previous experiences

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not very pleasant but that ...

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here we found that anyway ...

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have changed.

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We're getting things,

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that in the conditions in which they were before, they were not obtained.

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'Towards' the rainbow bridge ...

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Verso is a horse that came here last year ...

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and he is currently seven years old.

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It is a horse that we are preparing ...

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to go for a jump start activity,

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because ... he comes from the racing world,

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he comes exactly from the world of trotting.

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In fact he is a trotter and has done trotting competitions up to ...

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more or less, 5/6 years.

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Then he was put ... to rest for the end of his career in the trotting world,

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the owners have decided to sell it and us

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we tried to adapt it to this new world ...

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of sport riding.

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So, starting him to show jumping

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because he should still be the 'little horse' that ...

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in the future he will bring some of our students to make the first competitions ... jump, and for which

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In short, the first approach to the real jump,

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the first races, the intention would be that.

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There will certainly be a lot of work to do but ...

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the program, for him, and the future that awaits him,

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however this will work.

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Already now he is starting well, he is making good progress ...

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in this sense and for which we are ...

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very confident about his future in short, as a 'little horse' for the students,

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in order to be able to jump into the first 'concorsini'.

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Let's say that, among the first horses of the stable ...

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there were ... we left with some horses that were, Cotton,

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Pear, Linda and Nereide.

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These were the first four horses, shall we say, essential ...

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of the main nucleus of the original stable,

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at the time we were in Conegliano.

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Unfortunately...

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they left us quite recently, in the sense that

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of these there is only Nereid left.

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As soon as we arrived here, roughly last summer during the grest ...

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we had our pony disappeared,

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that it was Linda, who died of intestinal colic,

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a torsion colic.

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We tried to intervene to fix it but unfortunately ...

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it didn't go well and so she left.

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And the other mare, Pera,

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she died from a supposed virus ...

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a kind of encephalitis.

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Even with her death was very bloody and very hard,

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both to face and to manage,

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because the scenes were truly creepy.

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Then, Cotton was my race horse that I was particularly attached to,

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and, sadly, he passed away just ... before we moved here.

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He had hip problems and ...

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in a certain period he started to fall to the ground and could no longer get up.

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We had to take him to this place and actually,

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one day, he couldn't take it anymore ...

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He fell to the ground and could no longer stand up.

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He had come to the end of his life and he too

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it was a big loss for me because ....

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I am used to keeping horses with me for life during ...

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So since they come to my stable, they stay until ...

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they go, let's say,

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in the rainbow bridge.