Like most Australians I can only speak English but I’ve come across a lot of European horselovers via customers and now have Facebook\u00a0links to quite a few.\u00a0 Their fabulous horse photos do the talking.\u00a0 \u00a0It’s amazing how many\u00a0amazingly talented horsemen and women there are – great trainers and trick riders – and it looks like a relatively large number are able to make a living out of equine entertainment in Europe.\u00a0 If it wasn’t for our essential strict equine quarantine laws, no doubt we’d see some of them performing in Australia.<\/p>\n
One of the most impressive examples I’ve come across is Lorenzo ‘The Flying Frenchman’.\u00a0\u00a0 He’s only in his 20s but even with my limited French, I can figure out that there’s apparently been 8 million\u00a0visitors to his website – and it’s not surprising. \u00a0Have a look at the stunning images and videos\u00a0on his website.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Lorenzo appears to specialise in cantering a team of up to 6\u00a0horses about in 3 pairs of 2, while standing on the rumps of the rear horses (one foot on each).\u00a0 The horses\u00a0go over jumps, around obstacles and through the sea.\u00a0 He appears to be from or lives in the Camargue – a marshy area in the south of France where traditionally bull fighting bulls have been bred, along with famously hardy Camargue horses.\u00a0 However the horses Lorenzo rides are apparently Lusitanos – Iberian saddlebreds from Portugal; historically related to the Andalusians of Spain.\u00a0 Lusitanos are popular for dressage, most are grey, and there is a Lusitano Breeders Association in Australia.<\/a><\/p>\n Apparently Lorenzo and his horses have been filmed for a Red Bull ad.\u00a0 I couldn’t find it on the internet however there’s a link to the Red Bull ad photos on my Face Book page.\u00a0 I hope we get to see this ad – it’ll be more spectacular viewing than whatever TV show it interrupts.<\/p>\n Horse-featuring advertisements such as these are hugely inspirational and effective.\u00a0 They plant the seed of a dream in people’s hearts, to get to know horses and learn to ride, and they motivate those who already have the dream to take action.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Although personally, I’ve just been reminded yet again\u00a0 how basic my own\u00a0riding ability is!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Like most Australians I can only speak English but I’ve come across a lot of European horselovers via customers and now have Facebook\u00a0links to quite a few.\u00a0 Their fabulous horse photos do the talking.\u00a0 \u00a0It’s amazing how many\u00a0amazingly talented horsemen and women there are – great trainers and trick riders – and it looks like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[64],"tags":[239],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}