The grail is found!
After four years of intense research I
finally have found now the rider’s seat in the old academic art of
riding: (See
research: update 15.Mai 2020)
Knabstrupper Stud Schimmerwald
Knabstrupper of Schimmerwald is a
line of breeding, above all intended for the revival of the academic art of
riding, today's most sophisticated summation of riding-knowledge during
the last 500 years. Also, as with most of the so-called "baroque-type"
horses, a Schimmerwald horse is very well suited to
carriage-pulling, to reining and of course, due to it's very calm,
reliable behaviour as a durable and safe recreation-horse. Unlike some other baroque-type horses, the fearless Knabstrupper shows a good ability for jumping, provided it is only demanded in accordance with his height, be it in the riding arena or delightfully on a not to difficult fox-hunt.
If trained carefully and unhurriedly, according to his resp. state of development (bodily and psychic state) it will very often get to be extraordinarily capable and prepared to go to great lengths for his owner.
Our aim in breeding is to approximate or possibly even better the old Knabstrupper, (a mix of the danish Fredericksborger with the Spanish horse) which in it's time has been one of the most sought-after breeds at the European noble courts. The King of Hannover's great fondeness of his white-born horses let him acquire several of these white Knabstrupper horses, matching the white horse in the flag of Lower-Saxony and serving as horses for the crowning ceremonies.
For the use in the modern high-school of riding we need horses in the square-type as opposite to the long, english type, they should be approx. as high as they are long, with a wide chest and well rounded croup to give it good standfastness through covering a short and wide space of ground and thereby a superb dirigiblity. This type of body leads to the necessary steadiness and surety of movement to give it (and consecutively it's rider) the braveness and power for the schools upon and over the earth. If you try to breed a square-type horse, you must take in account that mostly a mare's body is slightly longer than a stallion's. (The horse-type least able for the academic art of riding on the other side is the long and small built hotblood-horse, which is explictly bred for the panicky running-away).
The best tuning of the bodies of rider and horse will be found at a stick-measure (rigid measure) about 20cm (15-25cm) below the height of the rider. This suggests a horse with a stick-measure of 150cm will be best suited for a rider's height around 170cm to achieve a comfortable, balanced seat in all gaits. With this constellation the rider's pelvis is just capable to follow even the most extended movements of his horse, not to endanger the harmony so essential for the high-schoool. The rising trot or hunting-seat are thus unnecessary even in the extended trot or the race-gallop and have been unknown during the high time of the art of riding.
The personality of the Schimmerwald-Horse equals less the fearful, nervous, "always on the run"-horse, but a calm, oftentimes more "wait-and-see" , standfast type, and this, too, is a reason for these horses often ending up being the leading ones in a herd.
It is a safe utility-horse for old and young, very gifted and always keen to learn new things, always eager to please the ride/handler/driver.
Beside the great abilty for the high school of riding these horses are famous for their colouring: there are uncounted combinations: beginning with the simple bay, chestnut or black horses there are spotted and painted horses in all variations: leopard-spotted is the most famous one (look at our Paco, Picasso and Luna), this variation exists also with chestnut spots on white ground; with only some little white spots on a bay or black horse; with a blanket ("Schabracke" in German) over parts on an otherwise white body (see Lulu); with tiger-like stripes of black sort of parallel to the ribs, and so on... Sometimes these colours are so unique and indescribable that the old Danish breeders called them roguishly "green horses".
But be warned: should you also get infected with the "Breeder of Knabstruppers-Virus": there is no way to even nearly predict the colour of the planned foal: Our Paco had one leopard-spotted from a bay mare (see Mette-Marit,left); five very different colourde by Lille (few-spotted): a black leopard-spotted (Luna) and a "Blanket-Tiger" (Lulu) and a chestnut-leopard (Line) and a chestnut-leoprad small-apotted (Phidias) and a chestnut-leopard-spotted (Lykke vom Duten); also by other mares: a dark bay from a black, a dark chestnut from a white-born, a chestnut leopard-spotted from another white-born mare,and a black one with white spots on the croupe.
Today's Knabstruppers are re-bred from the last specimens of this old danish race, still to be found after the english horse and english riding became the predominant fashion in rider's circles from the middle of the 19th century. Especially in Germany, selfless breeders got infected by Bent Branderup's book "Knabstruppers, the fine Horses of Nobility"(title translated) and a lot of german riders by his extraordinary book " Academic Riding for the Ambitious Recreation-Rider"(title translated). As these horses were often saved by very individualistic horse-owners, many didn't get a proper registration, and many pedigree informations are gone forever with their former breeders. So a Knabstrupperhorse may be a jewel even if there is no pedigree to be found!
Should I use the Full Potential of My Knabstrupper Horse?
Reading my account of the potential the Knabstrupper owns, one might be astonished that this horse is suitable for nearly everything (naturally only for home-use as a recreational horse as it is naturally not capable for high-end disciplines: he would never win a high-jumping show or a trotting race championship!).
If one owns such a diversely suitable horse, it naturally is very tempting to use it in every direction: one time as carriage puller, another time as show jumping horse, the next for a fox hunt with not to big barriers, next as dressage horse and again as a distance horse (so as a real multipurpose horse).
But in spite of all these theoretically possible kinds of usage, you should always keep in mind, that some of them might bring (sometimes nearly unrepairable!) disadvantages for the others with it.
Should somewhere along the road I might decide the ultimate aim for me will be dressage or even the academic art of riding, I might have to change my horse severely and might regret producing some mistakes hard to correct.
The biggest mistake is a hard hand or bit: any usage with relies on producing great push evocates a massive force of the hand on the Horse's mouth: I don't know of any show jumping or hunting rider who in his way of riding can direct his horse with his seat alone and without significant force in the mouth! Carriage driving creates massive forces on the mouth, too!
A soft and unmolested mouth will enable the rider to reach the desired lightness and comfort in dressage much more easy and earlier!
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22.05.21 : Cav/Soll Kap 42, 43,44,45 zugefügt
21.02.2021: Cavendish II-39, -40, -41 zugefügt
19.01.2021: Alle Kapitel des cavalerice überarbeitet.
06.10.20 Teil II, Kap 38 zugefügt
20.09.2020: Cav/Soll: Abrégé § 10 und
II/32+33 hinzugefügt
Stellen mit Kandare?
15.05.2020: Game-Changer
Santa-Paulina Handhaltung entdeckt!
06.01.19: Bd II,37 zugefügt
03.12.19:II_36 zugefügt
23.11. II,35 zugefügt
14.11.: II, 34 zugefügt
26.Okt 19: II,33 zugefügt
05.10.19: Update Trensenkandare/
snaffle-curb
24.09.: II,31+32 zugefügt
15.09.19 : Bd II 29 +30 zugefügt
25.08.19: II,28 zugefügt
18.08.19: II, 27 zugefügt
09. Mai : Kap II,26 zugefügt
17.02.: Band II,Kap.25 zugefügt
07. Febr: Die neuen Trensenkandaren sind eine Erlösung!
Jan 18 : Band II, Kap. 22+23+24 zugefügt
Dez.18: Band II, Kap 20 und II,12 zugefügt
Nov.2018: I,62 ; II,12 ; II,17 ; II,11 ; II,13 zugefügt
Oktober 18: Bd I, Kap. 60 + 61 zugefügt
Sept..18: Bd I, 63, 67, 68 und 69 zugefügt
Aug. 18: Band I, Kap 55, 56, 57, 59 zugefügt
02.07: I, 52+53 zugefügt
Der Mittsommer-Special: "Galopp"
(Band I, Kap 50 +51) ist zugleich mein
Jubiläum: fünzig übersetzte Kapitel
des "Cavalerice francois" !
April bis Juni 2018:
Band I, Kapitel 3+5+16+17+41 bis47, +49,
Band III, Vorwort und Kapitel 24+25+30
+31+32+39+41+42
Jan. bis März 2018 :
Band I, Kapitel 15+64+65+66+70+71+72,
Band II, Kapitel: 3+4+5+7+8+9+19
Nov.+Dez 2017:
Band I, Kapitel 33 bis 35,
Band II, Kapitel 14+16+18;
Nov. 2017: Two more newly translated
chapters of the "Cavalerice francois"
by Salomon de la Broue" added!
August 2014: Schulparade von Rubens
12.April 2017: Rätsel der
Handhaltung
Guerinieres nun komplett gelöst?
April 12th, 2017: Riddle of
Guerinieres
hand-posture now completely
revealed ?
Juli 2016: Aufruf zur Teilnahme am
Forschungsprojekt
Guérinière- bzw. Marc-Aurel -Sitz
July 2016: Call for participation at the
Researchproject Guérinière- and
Marc-Aurel-Seat!
Feb 2016: Bisher unbekannte Zügelführung
entdeckt, siehe Fundstücke!
Feb 2016: Highly sophisticated rein-leading
found! See finds
September 2015 Picassos Leistungsprüfung
März 2014:Schulparade im Parthenon-Fries
Dez. 2013: Mesopotamische Schulparade
Mai 2013: Schulparadenskizze von Leonardo
August 2012: Neapolitanische Schulparade
gefunden!
Mai 2012: Antike Schulparade entdeckt!
14. Sept. 2013: Picassos erstes Fohlen gleich
Siegerhengstfohlen beim heutigen KNN
Grading in Deutschland!
6. Juni 2013: Pontus vom Duten, ein
schickes weiteres Pacofohlen
aus der Apera ist geboren
20. Mai 2013 : Das fünfte Fohlen aus der
Anpaarung Paco und Lille wurde
geboren: Lykke vom Duten, ein
wunderbares Stutfohlen!
06.Mai 2013 Parzival vom Soonwald
ist da! Das erste Fohlen von Picasso, aus
der Melissa af Silver, ein toller
Weißgeborener!
01.02.2013: Phidias ist zu seiner neuen
Besitzerin gewechselt, wir wünschen
ihr viel Freude und viel Erfolg!
November 2012: Wegen Überlastung
legen wir eine wahrscheinlich
mehrjährige Zuchtpause ein und haben
Melissa af Silver und Lille Ged in
gute Hände abgegeben!
20.05.2012: Phidias vom Schimmerwald
ist geboren! Ein wunderschönes
Hermelinfuchstiger Hengstfohlen!
28.03.2012: Line vom Schimmerwald
ist heute in gute Hände ins Süddeutsche
abgereist. Der neuen Besitzerin
wünschen wir alles Gute und viel Freude mit ihr!
29.10.2011: Knabstrupper Stute Melissa
af Silver ist bei uns angekommen!
02.10.2011: Picasso vom Schimmerwald
wurde heute vom dänischen
Knabstrupper-Verband KNN gekört !
14.06.2011: heute morgen stand im Stall
ein gesundes Stutfohlen! Endlich haben
Paco und Lille auch mal einen Fuchstiger
bekommen! Wir nennen es Line vom
Schimmerwald; leider können wir es wieder nicht
behalten; Interessenten sollten sich bald melden!
24.02.2011: Auch Lulu ist nun in gute Hände
nach Hessen gegangen und fühlt sich dort
pudelwohl!
14.02.2011: Ebenfalls heute wurde Luna
in gute Hände nach Quakenbrück
verkauft: Herzlichen Glückwunsch der
neuen Besitzerin!
14.07.2010: Luna vom Schimmerwald
ist geboren! Das zweite Fohlen von Paco
und Lille, diesmal nun mit seiner Färbung.
Sie kam im Beisein des Vaters, ca. 15min,
nachdem beide am Morgen zusammen
auf die Weide gebracht wurden, zur Welt!
Sie ist sein erstes völlig natürlich gezeugtes
und geborenes Fohlen, das bis zum Absetzen
von beiden erzogen werden soll.
Links:
Knabstrupper af Coco
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9107345v
Fonds ancien
http://www.atilf.fr/dmf/
http://www.anglo-norman.net/cgi-bin/form-s1
http://deaf-server.adw.uni-heidelberg.de/
Reitzentrum Gestüt Moorhof
Hof am Soonwald
Knabstrupper Duten
Dänische Knabstruppervereinigung KNN
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