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The show's acts
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- A display of how the participants in Minorca's traditional
festivals prepare their horses..
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- Ground work. Here, one can appreciate the work necessary in
breaking in; the horse has to be taught airs and movements that
it does not naturally perform.
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- Once the Minorcan horse has spent a certain amount of time
being broken in, and attuned its movements, a display of its
skills can be built up.
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- Long rein work. A display of how the horse carries out the
airs from the previous act, but here with the rider grounded.
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- The typical horse-drawn carriages on Minorca have been: the
work cart, the cabriolet, the iron-wheeled wagon and the covered
wagon. These vehicles were the means of transport on the island
until the introduction of the motor car.
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- A carousel of Spanish horses, from Andalusia, broken in in
the Minorcan style, with high-school airs.
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- Disco horses (only if it is dark when the show finishes;
June and September).
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More than twenty years experience in equestrian
shows.
For more than twenty years, the Pons-Marquès marriage has
been dedicated to working in the Minorcan style of breaking
horses in. In 1977 they were already putting on shows and
founded an equestrian school on Minorca (Club escola Menorquina),
where many people have learnt the Minorcan style. With their
children and some of their best pupils, they formed the equestrian
show, in which they show how a Menorcan thoroughbred can be
broken in the Minorcan way, the high-school way, and even
to perform certain circus numbers.
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