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.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

"Annus Horribilis for Argentine TB Crops"

Yesterday at the Palermo racetrack, was run the Argentine Derby the "G.P. Nacional" Group 1 on the International consideration, that was won by "Storm Chispazo" by 3 lenghts over an incredible poor than usual company.
These event, the major race for the 3 y.o. of both sexs, came to ratify, my opinion as a new "Annus Horribilis" for this argentine TB racing crops year, where nothing really surprising nor outstanding appeared.
To give a perfect picture of these matter of things, the winner was winner of two common races in the San Isidro Racetrack before this major hit, in his most recent stake appearance he came 10th (more than 24 legth from the winner, with the last horses) in the Gran Criterium in May, after that he raced again to win in the October's 31 meeting in the common race called Ollagua, over 2000 meters, in a mud turf track by 12 lengths, so he's racing 4500 meters in lesser than a half a month (15 days exactly without any clue about horsemanship) .
Hoping that the efforts done by the Argentine TB Breeders to bring here some of the best world class TB Stallions, like Giant's Causeway by LA Mission, probide the necessary renewal of the wrong decision of the past.
Thanks the coincidence, just crossing the Avenue "Libertador" we could saw the first meeting of the best Polo in the World, The Argentine POLO Open at the Palermo's Cathidral with Ellerstina-Alegria and Pilara-Indios Chapaleufu II .

Posted by Alex Suarez Lynch at 2:47 PM