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

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" .