Our stable here is called the Royal Horse Club,
because Royal is the first horse my parents bought
when I was 9 years old.
And therefore, I decided when I opened the stable to dedicate it to him
because he is the horse from which it all started.
Unfortunately, this horse abandoned me at the age of about 18,
after racing injuries where he had had a tendon rupture.
At the time, as there are no technologies that exist now, 9 00:02:14,166 -> 00:02:16,625 it was a pretty big breakup ...
for a horse, which precluded his career is ...
agonistic that, let's say,
her career as a walking horse limited her very much.
In fact, at first I gave up competition for this horse,
then, using it as a walking horse
the problems have come back,
we have chosen to put this horse on the pasture
and eventually ended the years of his life there.
The sad thing is that in the moment
this horse has practically left me,
I remember I was competing in Cortina
and the horse was in a stable in Belluno.
I was practically following some guys in competition
and I received a call from the owners of the stable
telling me that the horse, lying down, never got up again.
We left Cortina and came running to Belluno
to try to understand what had happened ...
And the horse, practically waited for us to arrive,
after that, he had had a collapse, cardiocirculatory
and he could no longer stand up.
I will always remember the scene where the horse practically looked at me,
he raised his head and looked at me.
And, with tears running down her eyes
he leaned against me as I tried to support his head
and in the end, he took his last breath there. 35 00:03:53,083 -> 00:03:56,416 And this is a scene that really remained to me ...
in the heart, even if it's the bad part of this job,
to have the loss of horses but in that moment,
what happened to my first horse that I was very fond of,
I made the choice to make it, in quotes, immortal
dedicating something to him that could remain in memory and ...
that something, in my small way, was the name of the stable.
In our management we use the paddocks a lot,
which are the outdoor enclosures for horses.
And indeed, we have a management where the horse
spends the best part of the day,
exactly from morning until evening at dusk, outside in the pasture.
Very often in summer, if there are nice evenings,
they also do the same night outside, so they stay out 24 hours a day,
climate permitting because in the summer you can do it.
Unlike many stables they use
the horse keeping it only inside the box ...
Some for space limitation,
others for different reasons, mentality or points of view,
obviously everyone has his point of view.
We use a management that is external precisely for ...
allow the horse, which is a herd animal,
to maintain their sociability with their fellow men.
We have paddocks where horses have yes,
the possibility of socializing with one's fellowmen and with one's neighbors,
but everyone has their own paddock,
so your own space to prevent ...
in this creation of hierarchies
maybe go and hurt each other, kicking each other or ...
to decide who is predominant between the two
So it has been proven that anyway, this mentality for horses
it is a real cure-all, in the sense that
by staying outside, the horse suffers less stress than a horse
left all day in the box,
gets distracted, relaxes and consequently,
these aspects also have their own interface when you
go to work the horse,
because you find it more relaxed, more willing to do
what you ask him, he does things much more willingly for which
it's all a system, a very different management
which in the long run leads you to results.
And, we can say that, we have noticed, in short, of this thing.
Nereid is the currently most historic mare,
because, she is the third mare to join the stable
even when the stable was in Conegliano.
She arrived as a mare up for adoption,
because she comes from a somewhat troubled past, in the sense that she was ...
in quotation marks, abandoned by the stable that held it.
She was reused as a riding mare in a stable
in Trentino.
And then, in the end, there too,
she had the misfortune of being abandoned in this stable by the owners.
She came to me as a saddle mare. I took it
I adopted her and, now, she is one of our two flagship horses of the school.
Because there is her and Piddu who are the two horses we use for our students.
Let's say she was one of the first three horses in the main core
from which the whole project started when we were in Conegliano.
And now, she accompanied us here,
to move forward with our students, young and old.
Let's say that in the Italian stables this is the part
which is normally delegated to what we call the 'groom'.
The person who takes care of boxing horses ...
The management of a real stable in the field.
While the knight maybe takes care ...
more than anything else to ride and work horses.
Here we do everything ...
There is no 'groom' because we are the 'groom'.
In foreign stables it works like this:
the rider has his ten horses to look after
and he has to take care of ...
from the box to assembling them, working them, following them ...
from the veterinary point of view,
so he has to take care of everything about those ten horses.
And here, we work a little with this in mind.
This is a new little horse that has just arrived, her name is Bionda,
she and she is a guest of our structure.
Now you will have to do a quarantine period as,
also for our horse friends it is a bit sad period
because, even in the equestrian world, recently,
in a stage of the FEI circuit in Spain,
a pandemic has broken out on an equine level
concerning rhinopneumonia.
A virus that we, in the equestrian environment, have known for some time
but which has evolved into a form ...
neurological virus which becomes very dangerous for horses.
So, as a precaution
now all the stables with the horses just ... entered,
they will have to follow a quarantine period in order to
make sure the new entrants into the stable
do not report any symptoms of these pathologies,
as they become very transmissible from horse to horse.
As Covid is for us, also for them ...
it is transmissible through the breath and therefore ...
not being able to wear masks like us ...
they must be very spaced and far from each other.
So she's going to have a period in an isolated box
and then, if there are no complications and nothing,
she will be reinserted together with our horses in the other part of the stable.
This is Roger, one of my horses.
Exactly it is my horse, which I use for competitions and competitions.
He is currently 17/18 years old.
In the past he had an injury,
a fracture of the suspensory tendon of the fetlock at the age of seven
while he did the seven-year circuit.
And it was a bit of a bet to take it, because we took it
when the horse was still completely stopped ...
following this tendon rupture.
And then he was sorted through ...
of therapies, such as Tecar.
Quite innovative therapies in the world of horses.
And I must say that I have never had more problems with him
on the contrary, he never limped again and never gave problems ...
through this therapy and a ...
good management of the aplomb at the foot level
and a correct shoeing.
He is a horse that is still in competitive activity.
Jump, one meter and fifteen - one meter and twenty races ...
with me.
He is a fairly characterful horse and particular in his nature ...
because ... he has a philosophy, on his part, as a pack leader ...
and therefore, to understand it, we must try to find a mediation ...
regardless of him.
It happened to me the first time I took it,
the previous knight who mounted it before says to me:
"Look, this is a little stubborn horse, he's a little ...
particular to take, you have to take a little bit and import on him ".
Which I tried to do but in reality failed big time.
Because he has a character for which you have to put yourself on the same level
and you have to try to ... make him understand that ... you cooperate with him.
You must not impose yourself, nor let him impose himself
but try to work both on the same level.
It's a job ... that needs to be very diversified ...
on the fact of the jumps, you must not force, you must not ...
you still have to try to ... diversify his work
with work ... in freedom, rope work, assembled work,
work on the flat, work in the countryside,
so that he doesn't get annoyed.
It is also worth leaving it out a lot, giving it the chance ...
in quotation marks, to have fun with your head,
and this is a real cure-all ... for horses.
And in fact here is a little ... our philosophy
for how we keep horses.
Let's try to keep them ... in one state
where the horse faces the horse, where the horse is ...
however in his nature ... to be a horse.
So standing out in the paddock, standing close to each other.
And it is a philosophy that works very well with many horses,
from Roger, to others we have here.
They are all horses that maybe ... have had ... problems.
These are horses that have had ... previous experiences
not very pleasant but that ...
here we found that anyway ...
have changed.
We're getting things,
that in the conditions in which they were before, they were not obtained.
'Towards' the rainbow bridge ...
Verso is a horse that came here last year ...
and he is currently seven years old.
It is a horse that we are preparing ...
to go for a jump start activity,
because ... he comes from the racing world,
he comes exactly from the world of trotting.
In fact he is a trotter and has done trotting competitions up to ...
more or less, 5/6 years.
Then he was put ... to rest for the end of his career in the trotting world,
the owners have decided to sell it and us
we tried to adapt it to this new world ...
of sport riding.
So, starting him to show jumping
because he should still be the 'little horse' that ...
in the future he will bring some of our students to make the first competitions ... jump, and for which
In short, the first approach to the real jump,
the first races, the intention would be that.
There will certainly be a lot of work to do but ...
the program, for him, and the future that awaits him,
however this will work.
Already now he is starting well, he is making good progress ...
in this sense and for which we are ...
very confident about his future in short, as a 'little horse' for the students,
in order to be able to jump into the first 'concorsini'.
Let's say that, among the first horses of the stable ...
there were ... we left with some horses that were, Cotton,
Pear, Linda and Nereide.
These were the first four horses, shall we say, essential ...
of the main nucleus of the original stable,
at the time we were in Conegliano.
Unfortunately...
they left us quite recently, in the sense that
of these there is only Nereid left.
As soon as we arrived here, roughly last summer during the grest ...
we had our pony disappeared,
that it was Linda, who died of intestinal colic,
a torsion colic.
We tried to intervene to fix it but unfortunately ...
it didn't go well and so she left.
And the other mare, Pera,
she died from a supposed virus ...
a kind of encephalitis.
Even with her death was very bloody and very hard,
both to face and to manage,
because the scenes were truly creepy.
Then, Cotton was my race horse that I was particularly attached to,
and, sadly, he passed away just ... before we moved here.
He had hip problems and ...
in a certain period he started to fall to the ground and could no longer get up.
We had to take him to this place and actually,
one day, he couldn't take it anymore ...
He fell to the ground and could no longer stand up.
He had come to the end of his life and he too
it was a big loss for me because ....
I am used to keeping horses with me for life during ...
So since they come to my stable, they stay until ...
they go, let's say,
in the rainbow bridge.