This message is from: "M.Bijster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jean asked me about Iberian riding and I will try to explain as far as I can It is a kind of Western riding (Old Californian style, so I was told) Not cutting or Pleasure, but more a kind of show style that the old Spanish landowners did with their Spanish horses It was not meant for working, but for showing off (and the pleasure of riding I presume) It looks a lot like well performed classical dressage Here in Europe (especially in Germany) you see it with baroque horses, the Lusitano horses for example, or the Spanish horse It contains a high level of . . . .(I don't know the English word for it) in Dutch Verzameling. in German Versammlung Putting the horse together, a round neck, loose at the reins, the power coming from behind, very vesatile, going sidewards etc I hope I made myself a little understandable greetings, Marion
