Doma vaquera

She had had an Arabian in Washington that her sister-in-law had a farm and would take care of it.

We were looking at something called Doma Vaquera, and it's a type of equestrian form that has a lot to do with Spanish music, and it sound...

It's almost like choreography with dance, but you're on the horse.

And she was starting to get into that, you know, into, into seeing it, and wanting to go to Spain to see it.

There's, there's types of dressage that, that reflect livestock work, people working equitation.

Doma vaquera is the original term for it in, um, Spain and Portugal, the cow style effectively.

And then, you know, Western riding as we know, blah, blah, blah.

And then there's the combat styles which are still used in, um, bullfighting and what's called rossfechten, which is the old ...

... um, so I'm talking to you from Germany right now, but week after next when we're back down in Spain.

In the area of Spain that we live in, Doma Vaquera, which is what people call working equitation-

Mm-hmm

... is done to a very high level, so people are piaffing and passaging and tempi changing around while they're doing it.

... of the aristocrats.

So highly involved in horse breeding, highly involved in horse training, and so forth, and knew all the disciplines.

The bullfighting, the doma vaquera, not just the doma clássica, not just what we think of as dressage.

And he wrote this book, which is probably the one that's sitting on your shelf, called, I think it's, "Dressage in a French-Portuguese Style." And, um-