Rider Training At The Spanish Riding School
Most riders start at the Spanish riding school between the age of 15 - 18 and for most new prospective riders will spend 3 - 5 years as stable hands / grooms learning the knowledge and understanding of horse care. Throughout this period these perspective student will receive training and guidance from the current performance riders as well as some instructors who are still based at the riding school. Only a select few will progress from this stage and achieve student status

The student years are dominated by training in the riding arena. Aim is the consummate presentation of a trained school stallion in a show. If the student gets approval from the riding school, he is appointed as candidate rider. This means that he receives his first young stud, whose entire training rests on his shoulders. As soon as this horse is presented to the public in a show with one of the programme points `all steps and movements` or `great school quadrille`, the candidate rider has fulfilled his accomplishment - he is promoted to the rider status. Below You can watch a student of the Spanish riding school in training lunging with no hands to improve the riders balance.
Rider Training At The Spanish Riding School

Below you can watch a performance of the Vienna Spanish Riding School at London, Wembley

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