In May 1.973, His Majesty King Juan Carlos I - as prince of Spain - gave D.
Alvaro Domecq "the golden horse award" in Jerez de la Frontera. This
is the highest equestrian honour it is annualy conceded in Spain as in recognition
of the devotion and work carried out in favour of the horse world. That is the
reason why Alvaro Domecq presents for the first time his show "How Andalusian
horses dance". From that show, it comes the foundation it is nowadays an
entity.Though the show "How Andalusian horses dance" is the greatest
exponent of the labour carried out by the school for outside, there are other
aspects which are as important or more important for the entity.
 Among them, we must emphasize the following ones:
1. Being a cultural and social vehicle of the equestrian heritage.
2. Horse selection for the promotion.
3. High school horsemen training.
4. Conservation and promotion of both cowboy and classical taming.
5. Conservation of elements such as the prestige of our riding, the Spanish
horse breed, traditions and culture.
6. Thanks to the show, being host both of the province of Cadiz and Spanish embassy
abroud with the execution of annual tours in several countries.
For all this,
the Royal school organizes training courses for horsemen, coachmen, horse trimmmers
and blacksmiths.
Horses and horsemen get on on the ring in the suggestive and rhythmic time
of the Spanish music so that they show us nice and elegant figures, formations,
steps and evolutions. Step, trot, gallop, hand change, turns, half turns. Everything
seems to take place easily. The armony of the group is never broken, evolutions
flow so naturally that we can hardly appreciate the moment the hand of the horseman
commands the animal to bend for an exercise or another. Watching figures and
executions such as corvettes, passage, raising, Spanish step or the wonderful
bucking are not less impressionant. All of them are a reflection of both a painstaking
training and a perfect armony between horse and horserman.
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