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By Ellen Farmer, Lusonatica Mr Helder Martino, ABCCMM instructor, spent 9 days training me and my horses in the proper frame and gait. What a difference it made in beauty and smoothness, and all that without brutallity!!! With many years of training in Brasil, he is an official trainer approved by the ABCCMM. Mr Martino…
by Laura Hinson Imagine my excitement when Lori Silcher from 4 Seasons Marchadors drove up my driveway a couple of months ago with a darling Marchador gelding, just for me! Netuno Lapidade, a 10-year-old gelding calmly walked off the trailer as though he had been at my house his whole life! Those of us who…
APRIL 20-22 OCALA FLORIDA! The 2012 Mangalarga Marchador clinic will be held in April at the Florida Horse Park. Go to their website: http://flhorsepark.com/ to get more information and view the world-class facilities. Stalls $20 a night. RV hook up available. First come first served. THE PLANS SO FAR The clinic will be based on the…
by Lynn Kelley Here is a link to the latest MM map! http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid= 216497991251556490622.00047cf902f114d08f491 We look to be spreading out, but many states and provinces only have 1 Marchador. Five states account for 63% of the horses here in North America. Montana (18%), California (18%), Oklahoma (10%), Arizona (9%) and Tennessee (8%) However, the…
by Ellen Farmer 12 months of looking at beautiful Mangalarga Marchadors! Get to know more of the horses and owners around the country!The calendar is done and ready – in plenty of time to give as Christmas gifts or just to impress your friends and family. A new format that’s a little bigger than previous…
President’s Letter USMMA The USMMA Newsletter is back! We are happy to announce that USMMA member Aline Oliveira Green has become our newsletter editor. We expect our newletter to resume in December 2011. Aline asked to wait until after Aline’s first endurance race with her Marchador mare, Erva-Doce de Tesouro.Good luck Aline!…
We had a great, great Mangalarga Marchador clinic hosted by Legacy Marchadors over this past weekend, April 6-10. The photo is Kate Barcelos, our Brazilian instructor riding Andante (Apple Pie de Miami) owned by Haras Lucero, TN. Kate flew in from Brazil, assisted by USMMA member Aline Greene who translated Portuguese to English for us.…
There is a new chat site in Brazil with speaking English the focus. How very kind and thoughtful of them to include us like this. They discuss the different goals in breeding, trends in the breed, problems, solving problems etc. Excellent group. They have asked me, Lori Silcher, to share with all as the ambassador…
The USMMA lost 2 great mares this year: Summerwind’s Chanel de Miami 1996-2011 and 4 Seasons’ Tapixaba do Vale Vermelho 1998-2011.. They left us before their time and the only saving consolation is the foals they left behind them. Chanel had 5 foals: Artemis and Enya will stay with Summerwind. The others are Destiny do…
Enya do Summerwind, born December 30, 2010, the coldest day of the year in AZ! Enya is the daughter of La Paz Jivago and Chanel de Miami. We couldn’t be happier!