Everyone on the First Coast knows that this is the year St. Augustine is celebrating its 450th year anniversary, even the King of Spain is attending the celebrations. Few people know that the oldest Classical Dressage school, the Spanische Hofreitschule in Vienna, Austria, is celebrating its 450th year as well.
Many celebrations and ceremonies are taking place in Vienna and all over the globe. How appropriate First Coast Classical Dressage has been founded this historic year and will now begin to promote hundreds of years of knowledge to our Members!
"The Spanish Riding School is the only and the last institution which fosters Classical Dressage in its purest form.
"There can be true understanding between humans and horses. If we're prepared to bring tolerance and friendship to our perception of the way a horse thinks and feels and to enlist it as mans partner without depriving it of its inner most nature. This is the message of the Majestic white horses, the Lipizzaner, of the Spanish Riding School ."
"The of goal of dressage: to create a work of art through the unison of horse and rider in movement. Lavishly poetic, yet contained, within the stringent Baroque precepts of decorative figures performed with unswerving precision."