SICAB is THE place to be
SICAB is for sure the place to be if you are Pura Raza Español (PRE) fan, or just want to enjoy the Spanish atmosphere and experience the Spanish men and women with their horses. The tradition for the PRE horses grows from generation to generation, and when you go to SICAB it´s like stepping into the both the history and the present moment. Old breeders and the young generation meets at SICAB, the biggest breeding farms has huge stands where they are showing their successes, and at the same time they have exclusive areas where they invite friends for a cozy get together, the Spanish way of cocktail parties.
It must be a combination of developing both the breeding and the riding in order to step forward with the PRE horse
The big issue for the Spanish breeders is still to be able to breed a sport horse with 3 good basic gaits. Often the Spanish horse is with an impressive trot, or at least the riders are able to develop the trot, but unfortunately when it comes to both walk and canter it is often the weak gaits. And when looking into today’s finals it was just a few of the young horses showing 3 clear basic gaits, and with the new goals for the PRE horses being part of the future sport, they must look much more into the breeding. Most of the Spanish riders are quite experienced riding Spanish horses, but for some riders it seems to be a clear lack of experience being able to develop and balance the young horses in both the walk and the canter.
More of the older stallions which also were shown today by the hand showed good gaits, while the group of 4 year old mares were really limited from the 3 gaits perspective.
A pleasure to watch today’s winner of 4 year old final, from successful sport breeding stud Yeguada Susaeta with rider Guillermo Garcia Ayala.
