CLINICS AND COURSES SPONSORED BY THE AACCP IN WHICH WE CONTRIBUTED ASSISTANCE FROM OUR BREEDERS
Equine Department we support these initiatives”. This clinic has opened an unprecedented chapter on an international level regarding Break-In and Rein training; a chapter in which you also will be writing your part in history.
The organizers also had something to say:
Sergio Magrini:“ I thought that being able to get a glimpse of Polito’ s knowledge and teaching and transmit it to anyone carrying out this activity with horses could be very useful, not only for Polo, but for all equestrian disciplines. It was a unique and exclusive opportunity that people had to become trained, which is what I see is missing in order to obtain better horses. The more instruction one receives; the more one knows and the more options one has, the better the horses will be.”
Response to needs at different venues:“ It was fairly even, because some are a little short of one thing, others are short of another, but everywhere and at every stage( break-in; rein; training; practice) they are all missing some detail that Polito presents to them very clearly, and so they get the concept of what they have to try and achieve, even though later they will have to put it into practice with whatever tools they have at hand and from what each has gathered from each course.”
Polito Ulloa:“ Above all it was my desire to go on learning … I remember 50 years ago when I started on the techniques and horses were very different; mostly the techniques. We must become updated on what genetics mean today, which in turn brings with it raising and tameness which is very different. By observing the different disciplines and equestrian sports, which is where rein management comes from, I see we have fallen far behind. Techniques the world over are very different, they go in another sense; they don’ t aim at strength but at convincing; at the union between man and horse.”
In Brazil I loved discovering the interest shown by breeders in that they sent all their people; very humble working-class people. They were open to seeking the Argentine experience in polo, which despite everything, takes the lead.
In Colombia I also observed an inferior level to Argentina; not in their passion or wish to improve, but they are going ahead with their eye on American techniques mostly.
In Uruguay I noticed a great love for the horse; people very in to break-in, with many good qualities, but trying to adapt to what polo ponies are now. Uruguayans are a simple people; farmers;
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