Lusitano horses/루씨타노 1

 

 

루씨타노 말을 소개 해 드립니다. 포르투갈에서 bullfight으로 쓰이기도 하는 말들인데 조용하면서도 자신감이 있는 말들입니다. 고급 드레사지와 승용에 최고인것 같습니다. 그다지 크지 않으면서 (15핸드) 목이 깊고 굵습니다. 언젠가는 갖고 싶은 말입니다. Master Olivier에게 배운 Dominique Barbier라는 프랑스 교관이 이 말을 사다 키우고 훈련시켜 팔거든요. 그가 가장 최고로 치는 말입니다. 영리하고 대담하고 성격차분하고 잘 하려고 하고... 그보다 더 좋은 말이 있을까요...

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From the APSL - Associacäo Portuguesa de Criadores do Cavalo Puro Sangue Lusitano, here are the standard measurements and requirements for the Puro Sangue Lusitano: 

THE STANDARD FOR THE LUSITANO BREED

1. TYPE:	Middleweight (weight around 500 Kgs.) "Medium lined"; sub convex profile throughout the body (with rounded outlines the silhouette of which can be fitted into a square).
2. HEIGHT:	Medium, to be measured at the withers with a measuring stick at the age of 6 years. Average Height Females 1.55 m (nearest 15.1 h.h.); Males - 1.60 m (15.3 h.h.).
3. COAT:	The most appreciated and esteemed are all shades of grey and bay.
4. TEMPERAMENT:	Noble, generous and ardent, but always gentle and able to support duress.
5. MOVEMENTS:	Agile, elevated forward, smooth and having a great facility to carry the rider in con fort.
6. APTITUDE:	A natural ability for concentration, with a great disposition for High School work and courage and enthusiasm for the gineta exercises (combat, hunting, bullfighting, work with cattle, etc.).
7. HEAD:	Well proportioned, of medium length, narrow and dry: with the lower jaw not too pronounced and the cheek inclined to be long. Slightly sub-convex profile with the forehead in advance of the bones of the eyebrows: the eyes beneath tend to be elliptical in shape (almond shaped), big and alive, expressive and confident. The ears are of the medium length, fine, narrow and expressive.
8. NECK:	Of medium length, arched with a narrow hairline: the junction between head and neck is narrow or fine: the neck is deep in the base and well inserted between the shoulders, rising up from the withers without any convexity.
9. WITHERS:	Well defined and long, with a smooth transition from the back to the neck. Always higher than the croup.
10. CHEST:	Of medium size, deep and muscular.
11. RIBCAGE:	Well developed, long and deep with the ribs obliquely arched into the join with the spinal column which promotes a short and full flank.
12. SHOULDERS:	Long, slanting and well muscled.
13. BACK:	Well defined and tending towards the horizontal making a smooth union between the withers and loins.
14. LOINS:	Short, wide, muscular, slightly convex, well connected with the back and croup with which they form a continuous harmonious line.
15. CROUP:	Strong and rounded, well balanced, slightly slanting, the length and width should be of identical proportions, the profile convex and harmonious with the point of hip relatively unobtrusive, giving the croup a transverse section of elliptical shape. The tail emerges from the same line as the croup, being of long, silky and abundant hair.
16. LEGS:	The forelegs are well muscled, and harmoniously inclined. The upper arm straight and muscular. The cannons slightly and muscular. The fetlocks are dry, relatively big and with very little hair. The pasterns are relatively long and sloping. The hooves are of good constitution, well defined and proportioned without being too open; the line of the coronet is not very evident. The buttock is short and convex. The thigh is muscular and tends to be a short, and it orientated in such a way that the patella or gas kin is in the same vertical line as the hip bone, or point of the hip. The legs is slightly long from hock which puts the point of the hock in the same vertical line as the point of the buttock. The hocks are large, strong and dry. The back legs present a picture of relatively closed angles.   http://www.lusitano.dk/