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Lusitano World ~ Photographic Workshop
Lusitano World – International Photographers’ lenses focused on the Lusitano Horse Lusitano World (www.facebook.com/lusitanoworld/) is promoting another Equine photography workshop with the International Photographer Katya Druz, between 19th and 24th of April. After the great success of the last workshop – that took place in Golegã in September of 2015 – this fully-booked event includes photographers from all over the world: France, Belgium, Ukraine, Russia, Norway, England, Germany and Portugal. «These initiatives allow people to get to know the Lusitano breed and Portugal on a global and international level – which is the final goal of Lusitano World as a company. For this workshop we have designed a bold program, which…
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Turning Hair or Ashes Into Gemstones
MEVISTO TRANSFORMS HAIR OR ASHES INTO PERSONALISED GEMSTONES. By extracting various substances, elements are obtained from which a colourful sapphire or ruby is grown. Mevisto has successfully mastered a technique in which elements of hair or ashes are integrated into a Mevisto gemstone, scientifically proven. Now available in Australia and the USA! Gemstones have always been a precious gift. They are often a wonderful reminder of an emotional event or personal memory, such as an engagement, a wedding, an anniversary, one’s first great love or the birth of a child. By handing them down to subsequent generations, these memories can survive for a very long time. Mevisto…
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Horsesanity – Follow your true nature
Follow Your True Nature Mindfulness through Horses and Wild Nature 8 days 7 nights – August 7th to August 14th 2016 The purpose of this retreat is to provide the space for you to explore your world from a fresh perspective. Immersed in the wildness of this ancient land you will be able to bring yourself into the present and become mindfully aware. Through the presence of the horses, you will be guided in your exploration of your true self. This is not a luxury retreat where you will spend your time sipping cool drinks by the pool, nor is it a wilderness survival test where you are pushed…
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DUBLIN 2016 AMBASSADOR COMPETITION
DUBLIN 2016 AMBASSADOR COMPETITION WIN the opportunity of a life time to be a Dublin 2016 Ambassador. Dublin is offering three lucky winners the opportunity to be a Dublin Ambassador for 2016. Each Dublin 2016 Ambassador will receive: · Return economy airfares to Melbourne to participate in the Dublin 2016 Ambassador photo shoot · Limousine transport to & from Melbourne airport to the Mansion Hotel & Spa at Werribee Park · 2 nights’ accomm for 2 people at Mansion Hotel & Spa at Werribee Park including all meals · 2 tickets to the Dublin SocieTEA high Tea · 1…
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Lipizzaner Stud Farm Piber received UNESCO award
Lipizzaner Stud Farm Piber received UNESCO award – Ministers Andrä Rupprechter and Josef Ostermayer as well as Governor Hermann Schützenhöfer expressed their warmest congratulations The century-old knowledge of the wonderful white horses’ breeding at the stud farm of Piber in Styria has recently been nominated to intangible national UNESCO cultural heritage. Minister of Agriculture and Environment Andrä Rupprechter was the first to congratulate, the Stud Farm Piber and the Spanish Riding School belong to his department: “The thorough knowledge about breeding, rearing and training of the oldest cultural horse breed in Europe forms the basis of the Lipizzaner’s and the Spanish Riding School’s worldwide success. The UNESCO award…
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New Head of the Heldenberg Training Centre
Rider Florian Zimmermann is appointed Head of the Heldenberg Training Centre (Lower Austria) of the Spanish Riding School “We are very happy to announce the new Head of the Spanish Riding School’s Heldenberg Training Centre, Florian Zimmermann, who is also Rider at the Spanish Riding School”, comments the CEO of the Spanish Riding School Elisabeth Gürtler. As of now he is responsible for all the activities at the Heldenberg Training Centre in Lower Austria including the on-site horses’ well-being, the best possible staff organization and local conditions for stallions and Riders and finally, the coordination of seminars for the national and international riding world. The 35-year-old Florian Zimmermann comes…
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Lesson Learned
When I look back on my riding lifetime, I’m not quite sure how I’m still alive. How’s that for positivity! I wouldn’t so much say I am a naturally gifted rider so much as I would say I possibly sustained one too many knocks to the head and my concept of a good time is far from equivalent to a smart idea. It could also explain why I’m 32 going on 92. My beloved equine with the spectacular jumping abilities was about the cleverest little man I’ve ever come across. I’m quite certain he was put on this earth to knock some sense into…
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Feeding Oil: 101
What are NSCs? NSCs are Non-Structural Carbohydrates, which include sugar and starch. NSCs are mainly found in grains, as well as in sweet feeds (ie. molasses). NSCs provide energy to horses, but in high levels, they can cause metabolic chaos, namely colic, laminitis, poor temperament and blood acidity. The accepted NSC level in feeds for most horses is 12-15% What is the alternative? Research shows that oil is a suitable non-grain source of cool energy. One cup of oil is equivalent to about two and a half cups of grains in digestible energy. Not all oils are the same. There are saturated oils eg. coconut oil – which uniquely contains…
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It is a filly! In the Lipizzaner Stud Farm of Piber, the first foal of 2016 saw the light of day.
A mixture of the smell of hay, great pleasure and pride is in the air when Stud Manager Harald Neukam enters from the biting cold into the traditional warm stable of the Stud Farm of Piber. He has a very special reason to enter the stable, for he visits the new offspring: the first filly of 2016. “We are very proud”, he tells us, “on Saturday, at 11.10 pm, the first foal, a filly, saw the light of the day. We are very glad that she is perfectly healthy, just as her mother Rimava.” She was born a few days earlier than expected, however, birth went without complications and mother…
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WeatherBeeta and Horseland team up with the National Breast Cancer Foundation
WeatherBeeta the world’s leading horse rug brand and the Horseland network of stores, are proud to announce a partnership formed with the National Breast Cancer Foundation in 2016. The NBCF is Australia’s largest 100% community-funded organization committed to funding life-changing breast cancer research. NBCF has awarded more than $127million to around 430 Australian – based research projects to improve the health and wellbeing of those affected by breast cancer. With 42 women, on average, diagnosed with breast cancer each day, there is still much to do. WeatherBeeta and Horseland Stores, have joined forces with NBCF to raise much needed funds for life-changing research. Every dollar helps NBCF move closer towards zero…
