Stallions Brought Success for Cook
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Alfacinha Interagro. Photo: Tupa (Brazil) |
Xisto
Interagro. Photo: Katherine
Cook (USA) |
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Zola
Interagro. Photo: Katherine
Cook (USA) |
When Katherine Cook took her three young Lusitano
stallions to their first dressage show at Rocking Horse Stable in
Altoona, Florida, on April 4, 2009, her goals were “to get them on
and off the trailers, in and out of new environments and see how
they would do.” The Brazilian-bred Interagro Farm well-mannered
stallions not only made a big impression on the central Florida
equestrian show crowd, they scored well with the dressage judges, as
well. Cook’s newest acquisition, a four-year-old golden palomino,
Alfacinha Interagro placed second in Training Level, test 2, in a
class of 10 horses, and third in Training Level, test 1, in a class
of 16. Xisto Interagro, a 16.3 dark bay ridden by Captain Barry
McKie, placed second in Training Level, test 4; and Zola Interagro
placed first with the highest score in the show, 73.5% in
Introductory Test B. Cook reports that some had never seen a
Lusitano before, and she had to spell the name out. Domesticated in
approximately 5,000B.C. and found in the Iberian Peninsula, the
Lusitano was used in battle, bull fighting, equitation, sport and
pleasure before being exported to Brazil and now North America.
