The Saturday night Showcase, Festivallo Show, took us to different countries & cultures and entertained us with many different breeds of horses showcasing their talents in amazing ways. Showing strong relationships between horses & humans, dazzling displays with fire, music & moving "targets".
The show started in Brazil with carnival dancers & a festive spirit:
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This was attached to a car and a moving target! |
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One of my fav photos! |
Next came a lovely dressage Pas de Deux or Venetian type waltz on horse-back, it was stunningly done. Photos don't do it justice I'm afraid! Sorry! The male rider is definitely Frédéric Pignon (whose brother I was lucky enough to see in Dublin last summer!) I think the female rider is Magali Delgado.
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FP rode bitless |
We then kind of went to the circus - where we were entertained by youngsters on vaulting horses - which were huge...think 17-18hands! There was so much going on during this section of the show that i could only focus on the vaulting as the horses were involved - but there were also lots of other big drum type horses lining the arena and a huge troop of dancers/cheerleader type performers who were doing amazing things - which I didn't really watch as I was watching the kids on the vaulting horses!
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Another lovely Friesan - I notice them more now since Nancy came into my life, ;) |
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Large vaultige horse alongside others. |
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Nice Ardennais horse! |
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All lined up for the vaultige |
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Sorry it's fuzzy - unfortunately I didn't manage to catch any of the amazing tricks the kids did! |
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On his own - no lunge line on this horse |
Next we went to the Alps - i think, where a young lady showed us her horsemanship skills with her gaggle of cute welshies (i think)
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Over |
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Then under |
We were then whisked off to Portugal!
Then the first fire display started!
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Same rider from earlier post Baroque class |
There was a silly display between these from an eejit who rode is horse in and out of a moving trailer/horsebox - this act made me feel really unocmfortable as the leader struck me as a real yahoo who seemed more interested in being center of attention and doing silly things than looking after the well-being of his charges - it all seemed needlessly dangerous to me - so no photos of that!
But the show redeemed itself afterwards with another fire display & trapeze act which was fantastic!
This is getting long again - to be continued in another post!
Looks like a really cool show! I wish we had more stuff like that come here.
ReplyDeleteIt was amazing, so much to see - I've never seen such a variety of acts in one go before...and all horse oriented - doesn't get much better!
DeleteSo cool!
ReplyDeleteIt was pretty amazing. I'm only sorry photo quality so blurry - pics aren't as good as I might have hoped!
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