Saturday, August 30, 2008

Th Lipizzan Show

Here we are at Temple Farms to watch the Lipizzan shows:

The Lipizzan horses were brought over by Temple from Austria... here they are, well trained, beautiful creatures beneath authentic period dressed riders...



Herr are mares and they're young...





A frolicing foal...





All of them in the ring...









A-d-o-r-i-b-l-e...


A-A-W-W-W!



Back to the grassy fields...

Buggy-pulling Lipizzans...


A mother with a lipizzan foal in training...




Riders doing several different formations...









More formations & patterns...








Rearing lipizzan...










more rearing...


The landing...
















More tricks...





The ending...














dressage...







THE END













2 comments:

  1. I've always wanted to go see one of those shows!! Dressage has always amazed me.......*shakes head in disbelief*

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  2. I totally agree!!
    Dressage is such a mind-boggling sort of riding, with the way the riders command every single move that the horse makes!!

    It really is very pretty to the eye.

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