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, September 23, 2009

Argentine PoloTriple Crown 2009 starts today

After a rain delay, today with the match between the teams LA Aguada Tupungato Winelands: J. Novillo Asttrada 9, Ed. Nov. Astrada (h) 9, Mig. Nov. Astrada 10, Ig. Nov. Astrada 9 and Chapa Uno Hope Funds with Rodrigo Ribeiro de Andrada from Brazil 8, Hilario Ulloa 8, Bautista Heguy 9, Franciso de NArvaez (h) 9, will start with the traditional Tortugas Country Club Open Championship (" Abierto de Tortugas") - with the dispute of the Emilio de Anchorena Cup , the Argentine Polo Triple Crown.

How to see Argentine Races and Results in the Internet

First you can check with the argentine Stud Book (www.studbook.com.ar) where you can see born date register and trace her family, find "Volumen en linea" then "Yeguas Madres y sus Productos" tab where you wild find the Mares information and simple Pedigree (not as you can find at www.pedigreequery.com ) .

Second the web page of the Argentino Racetrack (Palermo) at www.palermo.com.ar, when there in English, see Horse Racing tab, click there in Horse Racing information, and there find Horse Campaigns, and follow the instructions there, type the name in the bar and then click over the name, and you will find the horse races ran.

Third check the major argentine racetracks at there site, like Palermo (Hipodromo Argetino de Palermo) in the same tab look for Horse Racing Information an then there you can see the Racing Schedule and Results, where all races ran in Palermo that date clicking over the name of the race and can be also seen the Video clicking on the right sign. Remember to finding the dates of the horse known by the Horse campaigns data.

La Plata the racing data is a little more difficult because its only in spanish, todays home page only gives the results information in pdf limited to a couple of weeks, its in spanish, find the "Resultados" in the left tags and when there click the word "descarga", that will open a pdf file with the results of that given date.

San Isidro the last major racetrack you can find there information in spanish only finding in the bar "Carreras" then "Resultados", there you will find the years where you can find their races in the dates known, click on the "Todas" botton to see all the races of that day, its posible to find the video of the race too clicking over "Ver Video" .

From a past tradition


Taking some time to find something interesting to share, I found a book written by Charles Darwin that toke my attention.

After reading some lines I found in it direct references to Argentina from this incredible scientific, he came with the Beagle vessel in the year 1833, a trip that will open a new knowledge era, after this trip he wrote "The origin of the species".

But what toke my atention was that in the moment he was riding horses around the Province of Buenos Aires (went from Bahia Blanca to Buenos Aires- about 500 Km. /), the Federal Government was fitting the local Indians nearby.

The local Indians and the Soldiers mainly had as transportation, the horses they could gather around there expeditions. Many stories after these situations, because the most important treasure for all parts where their horses and cattle.

Due to there knowledge horses where broke in an afternoon by the soldiers but they prefered the ones broke by the Indians.

There where a line of Forts that protect from the local Indians the first argentine cities. These forts and small cities where visit by the Indians with ferousity burning and killing all inside these facilities. After that the Federal Government send an expedition against the Indians that they found with the same results, they kill men and woman but left the childs alive.

As a simbol of these, I publish hereafter a picture made by Angel Della Valle named "la Vuelta del Malon", that is a large picture that can be seen in the Buenos Aires, Beau Art Museum.