of trot and canter, and worked the horse back into full work about one month prior to the show in Aachen.
Oxido, owned by Kimberly van Kampen, bred by Hnos. Mojarro Zamora and ridden by José Daniel Martín Dockx.
Which of your younger horses assures a promising future like Grandioso? I have a few Interesting horses coming along. Dani has two very good FEI prospects, one of them is a son of Grandioso, and the other is a horse from the lines of Ermitaño. We are both very excited. They’re young and only beginning with their training so we have to be patient. I am also sending a group of young horses from Michigan to be started by him; horses that are similar in quality to Vaquero with strong Marín García bloodlines. I’m personally very attached to Oxido (Young Recommended Stock). I believe he has some real strength in his capabilities. He is a horse that requires a lot of patience and is a little bit difficult in character. Currently, I’m researching the horse
LILY FORADO
As an American breeder, why did you set your sites on Purebred Spanish Horses? What took you into sports with your horses, and more specifically, with Grandioso? I began my adult interest in horses with Dressage, and then discovered the Spanish horse. This magazine and many other books and articles are filled with accounts of how easy it is to fall in love with these horses. I fell in love with them like many people before me. I love the culture of this horse, and the equine product is like nothing else in the world. I wouldn’t practice Dressage with warmbloods. For me, at this point, to be in Dressage, I want to do it with Spanish horses or not at all. After fifteen years, I understand the nature of these horses, the stages of training and what to expect at the different levels. I believe more than ever before that PRE horses are viable upper level competitors, and I hope to keep producing more examples like Grandioso, and we always try to breed for better and improve along with the sport.
LILY FORADO
with Borja Carrascosa to see if this combination might be something to go further in the future. What is your opinion of the breed’s current situation? What objective should we be establishing? I could talk about this topic page after page. I think that the economic crisis In Spain has affected the PRE horse world to the degree that we don’t see as many young horses coming along as we did ten years ago, and this is a sad thing for me to see. In Spain, the primary sponsor of the PRE horses in Dressage in Spain are
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