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.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

GP Pellegrini (GI) and Argentine Polo Open the same day

Next Saturday December 12, will be a difficult day to decide between two of the biggest shows in town, The Carlos Pellegrini at the San Isidro Racetrack and the Final of the Argentine Polo Open, practically at the same time.

One word about the Gran Premio Carlos Pellegrini (G I International), is the most prestigiuos race in Latinamerica, that is race at the San Isidro racetrack. TB Horse from all around the continent will gather, in the turf field of San Isidro, that was started to race in 1887.

22 Horses are running this edition, and came from Brazil (4), Uruguay (1), Peru (1) and USA (1).

I can believe that Fuego e Hierro is in the list of horses to run (see my post) and also the urugauyan horse named Escolazo after a 28 hours track trip (?!!), too.

Its a great race, in a great place to attend like San Isidro racetrack (one of the best in the world) with the best TB horses of the continent, what more can we ask for?.

But some miles away, the Final of the most important Polo Championship in the world, is being played with a special extra, is the first Final with two 40 goals handicap polo teams (40 goals are the maximun handicap for a polo team)in Argentine Polo Open history .

What a day!

Posted by Alex Suarez Lynch at 9:45 AM