Horses were introducted to this part of the world mainly by the Spaniards. The first ones came with the Conquerors and after that, and thanks to these great plains, the horse became the best friend to the man in the new world.
Through this mixture of civilizations the Argentine horses -named criollos- became the best transportation for the new Argentine thanks to its tireless endurance.
In the first quarter of the past century Argentine cattle barons purchased from England and France the best thoroughbred horses of that moment, champions from England like Diamond Jubelee and Cyllene among many others that placed Argentina as an important thoroughbred horse breeder country.
Many Argentine bred horses won important races around the globe, about which we´ll later inform in this blog .
Criollos, plus the best English Thoroughbred, became an explosive coctail to create the Argentine polo horses, but a patient and passionate love of Argentine horsemen for these horses gave the secret element for this worldly known success.
Darwin, Tesio and other talented connoisseurs came to this country and saw the vast Pampas and their people. Be a part of this incredible journey for horse lovers.

Coming soon

This blog will place you in the Argentine Pampas, one of the most extensive plains in the world where these horses are raised in the most natural way.

Argentina is a horse country, you will see in this page how these horses are bred for these sports.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Clues in the market

After a deep analysis of the stallions registered in the last annual review of the Argentine Polo Association (2006), a very important portion (over 65%) are Argentine Thoroughbreds, this give us an idea about the importance to understand where the trends go. These Stallions come from different Studs/Farms but mainly from the Haras La Quebrada (TH Farm). This is because enormous success of one of their stallions named Southern Halo, this stallion marked the TH bred in Argentina winning consecutively the best stallion award from 1994 to 2001 and 2003, as also the broodmare stallion award for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006.

Consequently all Argentina breeders went in this direction too.

He transferred to his herd speed ability (up to 8 furlongs but 6-7 furlongs the most), and they won several important stakes (338).

One of his fault as TH stallion is transmiting bleeding (lung problems) that can be sized with the use of Lasix.
Another fault is that none of his sons can equal his extraordinary success.