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THE LIPICA STUD FARM Horsing Around On the rainy day we were scheduled to stop at the Lipica Stud Farm, I admit I wasn’t enthused. What would we do there - watch horses make little horses? But my attitude changed when our guide Jani explained that we were at the original home of the world-famous Lipizzaner Stallions of the Spanish Riding School of Vienna, Austria. These statuesque white horses and their riders tour the world demonstrating the precise movements of classical dressage, including highly controlled, stylized jumps and other movements known as “airs above the ground.” Obviously my curiosity was piqued. We learned that Lipizzaners were bred here for Austrian Hapsburg nobles starting in the 1580s, which makes Lipica Europe’s oldest stud farm still in operation. The farm is a large verdant estate dotted with historic stables and buildings, including a full chapel built mostly in the 1700s.. In 1996 the Lipica Stud Farm and its horses were declared a 48 WDT MAGAZINE SPRING 2017
Lipica mares looking after their youngsters. Right: The Queen of England looking over her gift horse Kanizo and Ron & Mary making friends with the same horse many years later. WINEDINEANDTRAVEL.COM 49
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The early years of The Fab Four (Jo
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