Lusitanos have taken Peter van Borst around the world and given him a chance to live out-of-this-world experiences usually reserved for books or brought to life in movies. Van Borst, whose father was an international man and whose mother was a woman of incredible variety, has spent most of his life on the back of a Lusitano, so long in fact, that he proves that horse and rider truly do seem to bec
ome one. In that other world, he soon discovered he had a talent for horse training. At 17, was a rider in a jousting show north of Wales, where he lived in a castle. About the same time, he began working in the film industry, joining the behind-the-scenes horse operation and carrying out on-set stunts in the movie, “The Lion in Winter.” He went on to work on a string of British-period dramas including “Charge of the Light Brigade,” “Mary Queen of Scots” and “Alfred the Great.”
Van Borst first came to America with the traveling road show “A Company of Knights,” a medieval-themed stunt spin-off from the film industry. For many years, he commuted to Las Vegas, where he trained a horse that performed nightly in the world-renowned magic show of illusionists Siegfried and Roy. Now he is focused on promoting the Lusitano horse in the United States as well as consulting to help individuals in the equestrian world achieve their goals. representative of Interagro Lusitanos, the world’s largest breeder of the horse and the only one to have mares and stallions from the three major Lusitano bloodlines.