Category: schooling a young horse

• ‘Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda’ (Dante)

  Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda” – “A great flame follows a little spark”.  (Paradiso: Canto I; The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri) Each day working with horses creates a small step forward. But these small steps create great strides over time. It’s often only when I look back over photographs of my journey with a […]

  Charlotte Wittbom Classical Dressage

  August 16, 2012

  Classical Dressage, Portugal, schooling a young horse

  Classical Dressage, classical riding in Portugal, schooling a young horse

• Two become one… Cheque’s tale.

  I’m sure many of you will remember Cheque. As a three year old he was the first horse to join me in my new adventure at Quinta do Brejo. Soon after he turned four a visitor from Sweden fell in love with him and decided to change her life by becoming a horse owner.  Her […]

  Charlotte Wittbom Classical Dressage

  July 24, 2012

  Classical Dressage Training, Classical Dressage, Portugal, Own a Lusitano, Puro Sangue Lusitano, schooling a young horse

  classical dressage training, classical riding in Portugal, PSL Lusitano, training a young horse

• Over the Moon

  

  And so with heavy hearts we have waved goodbye to Moon Fox, the Spanish Mustang mare we have had the pleasure of training here at Quinto do Brejo for the past four months. Moon came to us as a five year old at the beginning of her schooling and has now rejoined her owner to […]

  Charlotte Wittbom Classical Dressage

  June 30, 2012

  Classical Dressage Training, schooling a young horse, Working in hand

  classical dressage training, classical riding lessons, classical training in Portugal, Quinta do Brejo, Spanish Mustang, training a young horse, Work in hand