Arte Ecuestre Quinta do Luar S.L.

20/04/2025

PSL c**t by Ice-Cream RS**** out of Tilia OC (by Latino), born 19.03.2022, smoky-black; color code EeaaNCrgg, RX including back and neck ok, pironegative

19/04/2025

Spain * Costa del Sol * Junior Rider or Working Student Position from May onwards available

We are looking for our next team mate, and would welcome a dedicated and passionate candidate for a private Lusitano Stud (no livery) in Southern Spain. We focus on dressage, but train also gymnastic jumping and each horse hacks out weekly.

Key data and tasks:
* Work days 5,5 days per week (8 hour day, 24 days of paid holidays per year, usually no extra hours required)
* Daily feeding, sometimes mucking out (there is a full time groom for cleaning the large paddocks and working with the machines), maintaining the yard clean
* Putting horses to the fields, treatmill, assist veterinary and farrier
* Prepare horses for riding, hacking out, assist with freejumping, lunging
* Cleaning and organizing tack and the tack room
* Taking care of our nice dogs
* Helping at competitions

What we expect:
* Experience in above described duties
* Team player with self motivation and efficiency and very good eye for details
* Positive, willing to learn and to improve, having the well-being of our horses as top priority
* Clean, organized, and proactive in maintaining an orderly environment both at stud as well as in the nice flat we provide

Further Requirements:
* Age over 18
* Driving license
* ONLY EU passport

What we offer:
* Payment according to experience
* Accommodation: Private room in a beautiful large flat in our lively village (3 km from stud, 20 minutes to the next beach, 30 minutes to Malaga and 35 minutes to Marbella)
* A positive multinational team

We look forward to hearing from you!

17/04/2025

Happy Eastern 2025

16/04/2025

We could not agree more. Most of the issues we had with horses were never related to challenging RX. But correct hoof trimming and farrier is something which is absolutely underrated and people should pay much more attention to it!

What is the REAL purpose of reviewing x-rays nowadays?

Ok I know, I know lots and lots of you are going to jump in and say, “I had a horse and he got lame and this sport is so expensive I can’t take a risk to buy a horse who is going to be lame”.
And so I will agree with that. But I think we, as an industry are going too far and giving way too much value to X-rays on determining a horse’s value.

My business partner just lost a sale on a very very nice horse because (I wish you guys spoke French so I could play you the audio from the vet) and I quote : the naviculars have some slight changes that will never impact the horse’s sport career as they are so minimal, but they will impact the value of the horse and its resale”.

Wut? Come again? So an amazing jumper prospect is going to be less valuable and harder to sell for a “remark” that vets agree will never be an issue for its actual career?

Make it make sense… please. Why would the value of a horse change because X-rays have findings that don’t affect the long term soundness? And my vet says the same thing to me over and over. X, Y, Z is not going to be an issue, but some vets are not going to like it and you will have a harder time reselling it.

We “as an industry” take more and more X-rays, the machines and computers used are more and more sophisticated giving us very clear images where you can detect every nano detail.
So we end up noticing more and more “problems”. But are they really problems? Or is it just that we do more and more diagnostics and are more aware of everything.
My experience over the years is that most vet bills I have incurred were not related to findings on X-rays (like in 99% of the cases it had nothing to do with anything on X-rays).
Meaning that I have had a ton of horses with beautiful X-rays and not so beautiful X-rays, having soft tissue injuries, EPM, EDM, Colic, atrial fibrillation, pleuro pneumonia, broken femur, eye issues, you name it. I’m on speed dial with my vet.
But after 25 plus years I have still to call my vet because a chip made my horse lame.

I for one, I’m way more picky about the actual clinical part of the exam than the X-rays. Is the horse doing its job at the level I intend to use it for? what does it take to keep the horse going sound? If the answer to the last question: is do the Hokey Pokey every couple of months, it’s a pass for me. I believe in injections but I believe they are over used and mask a lot of issues that become big problems in the long term.
My 17YO GP horse hasn’t seen a needle in the 3 years I have owned him.

My daughter’s horse who I bought with the worst navicular X-rays at 3YO, is still going strong at 11YO, the only issue we had was a very mild tendon injury after showing at WEC (watch the footing more than the X-rays people, I promise you, many soundness issues are related to footing issues).

One more anecdote. I have a very very good client who has bought numerous horses from me. She bought a 1st jumper type from me 3 or 4 years ago and discovered a “horrific X-ray finding” that gave every vet palpitations. She got said horse for a steal because we were told he is pretty much bound to be lame anytime soon.
Well soon is still not now after showing and winning for the past 4 years.

Then she got an other one with sketchy af X-rays. Even I got a tad queasy looking at them. That one is currently jumping the welcomes and medium jumpers like a boss.
And because I didn’t want her to think that all my horses had s**t X-rays, I sold her one with gorgeous perfect X-rays. This one on the other hand, managed to be hospitalized for shipping fever, colic, managed to get a catastrophic pasture injury, then went back to showing to get what looks like not one but 2 back to back tendon injuries. But Folks, his X-rays were deemed zero risk for future soundness.

So yeah, the struggle is real here as a horse seller. It’s tough to “have to giveaway/sell cheaply ” super sound athletes because they have findings on X-rays.

Good horses are not easy to find. Good horses with “perfect” X-rays are unicorns and so we are in this conundrum of prices going up, people vetting horse after horse in this quest of the “perfect horse” to minimuize the risk when in the very long term the risk you take buying a horse is and will always be very high.
Horses are high maintenance suicidal herbivores that have one goal and one goal only, finance your vet’s lifestyle and annihilate your savings account , when you have accepted this fact you will have a blissful equestrian endeavor.

02/04/2025

There will be no social license for horse riding if people do not understand that our horses feel, try to communicate with us, they need to be build up respecting their individual situations and that good classical dressage with focus on well-being of the horses needs time and a lot of pain for the RIDER (as it is mentally very demanding to always strive to become better and finer and not be satisfied with what we did yesterday) and we truly need to find communication with our horses. They are not there to please huge egos but will give everything if you respect. We do all mistakes but we should not stay with the same mistakes and strive to improve to become the better and finer rider.

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01/04/2025

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31/03/2025

We started our competition season with the CDT in Montemarina. For Rayane AE it was her very first time away from home ever and she behaved exemplary! Whilst her grandmom Fantasia is still a bit impressed by the competition atmosphere, Rayane AE settled in super nicely and our rider Nathalie, who herself did her very first competition in Spain, rode very sensitively in order to provide the young mare with a good experience. We are sure that with a bit more strength and experience she will shine much more. Fantasia was the only Iberian horse in the PSG class with 6 horses and managed to get on the 3rd place. As always she gave her heart and security has improved so when she settles in again in competitions, I think she will further improve with more competitions to come. We had a really nice weekend and returned happily home with a clear idea where to work for further improvements. 🙂

24/03/2025

Another clinique with Gonzalo is over, lots of super input, challenging conditions from nice sun, rain, storm, hail.....but super mood and motivation to improve for all of us...☺️☺️☺️

14/03/2025

ES-29120 Alhaurin El Grande: Working student position available at private dressage stable in Malaga with mainly Lusitano horses and some warmbloods

Due to last minute cancellation, we have one position for a working student available with immediate effect.

We are looking for our next team-mate - is that you 🙂?
The riding team consists of the owner, two riders, a stable groom and one working student.... and then you 🙂 ?

We are looking for a structured, kind and positive person, minimum age 18 years with solid experience in dressage stables, who has passion and love for taking care of horses and for the every day life in a stable. Open mind and strong willingness to learn and to further develop skills is condition.

Existing EU visa or living status is a must. Fluent in English is also necessary.

The horses are nice and very used to being handled - we take the time it needs to develop them.

We offer 8 hour days (5,5 days per week, 2 holiday per month), lodging (own room), lunch menu, individual dressage classes and further training, money according to position.

References from past and present working students can be provided.

Send an application describing you experience. We look forward to hearing from you!

22/02/2025

Last weekend we had again a wonderful dressage clinique with Gonzalo Díaz. A lot of learning, always having each time more lightness in mind, helping the horse to understand and of course to also have fun. 🥰

25/01/2025

Not only horses…🥰

23/01/2025

Looking for an extremely sweet, tall (1,72m), very versatile, kid-safe dancing partner? Then find out more about Daenerys! Her dam is half PRE and half PSL and her sire the Hannoveranian Solano. She will be 7 years in July. Whilst she has been trained a lot by hacking, we think she will also have a very good potential for amateur riders with more interest in dressage. And she also does a very nice jump!

07/01/2025

Junior Rider Position for candidates with own horse available from March 2025

Private dressage stable in Malaga with mainly Lusitano horses and some warm bloods is looking for our next team-mate - is that you 🙂?

The riding team consists of the owner, two riders, a stable groom and one working student.... and then you 🙂 ?

We are looking for a structured, kind and positive person preferably over 21 years of age with solid experience in dressage stables, who has passion and love for taking care of horses and for the every day life in a stable. Open mind and strong willingness to learn and to further develop skills is condition.

This is a position for somebody aspiring to become professional rider and thus this specific position is open for candidates with their own horse to train them up, but also lessons on our horses will be provided.

Existing EU visa or living status is a must. Fluent in English and driving license is also necessary.

The horses are nice and very used to being handled - we take the time it needs to develop them.

We offer 8 hour days (5,5 days per week, 2 holiday per month), lodging (own room), lunch menu, individual dressage classes and groom training, money according to position.

References will be provided.

Send an application describing you experience. We look forward to hearing from you!

31/12/2024

2024 is nearly at our back... we look forward with optimism into 2025...!!!

We hope people see the beauty of dressage and do not just expect perfect pictures but value honest work and that riders must not being afraid to show that nobody is perfect but we all strive to become better each day.

We hope that the way with the horses is the pleasure and the goal, not a single objective in time, each moment with our horses is special.

We hope to see people feeling the magic of true partnership with horses and getting a smile on their faces.

We hope to demonstrate nice work also in the competition arena and we look forward to seeing our three fantastic "S" letter youngsters, Seduçao (what an airplane!), Sambesi (such a beauty and top mover) and Samurai (he is presently more a crocodile....) getting into work.

We have laid a solid foundation to progress all of our horses well further and enjoy an absolutely fantastic team to work together!

THANK YOU to all our friends, to our clients, service providers and those who just occasionally like to see our work!
We wish everybody a wonderful 2025!

25/12/2024

25/12/2024

August 2024

10/12/2024

Are you our next working student?

Private dressage stable in Malaga with mainly Lusitano horses and some warm bloods looking for you.

We are looking for our next team-mate - is that you 🙂?
The riding team consists of the owner, two riders, a stable groom and one working student.... and then you 🙂 ?

We are looking for a structured, kind and positive person preferably over 21 years of age with solid experience in dressage stables, who has passion and love for taking care of horses and for the every day life in a stable. Open mind and strong willingness to learn and to further develop skills is condition.

Existing EU visa or living status is a must. Fluent in English and driving license is also necessary.

The horses are nice and very used to being handled - we take the time it needs to develop them.

We offer 8 hour days (5,5 days per week, 2 holiday per month), lodging (own room), lunch menu, individual dressage classes and groom training, money according to position.

References from past and present working students will be provided.

Send an application describing you experience. We look forward to hearing from you!

25/11/2024

Some impressions of our wonderful Rayane AE. She has such a wonderful cooperative character and since starting to work after the summer break has made an impressive progress thanks to the excellent work of our riders Antonio Trigo and Nathalie. Again a proof of the quality which our Grand Prix Stallion Cromado (grandsire both on sire and damside of Rayane) gives to his offspring with very different mares.