Queen Isabella II died: the day she played a key role in order for Argentine polo players and petiseros to enter England

You couldn’t talk to Queen Elizabeth if she didn’t speak first. This is indicated by the actual protocol. To the Chatter (or random chat) handled it like an artist after more than 70 years on the throne. But his real passion and topic of conversation were horses.. He knew more about them than anyone else in Britain. She was the great owner of stallions and racehorses and her greatest defender in a royal family where equestrian sports are the denominator. Her other weakness was her corgie, her puppies.

Every Argentine ambassador who came to Buckingham Palace to present his credentials knew he had a common theme with the British ruler: horses, polo shirts and the families of Argentine polo playershe knew through horses and feasts in Windsor.

From the Blaquier to the Menditeguy, from the Harriots to the Heguys, parents and children, from the Dorignac brothers to the Lalor … And also the Figueras, through their nephews, the princes Felipe and William. And also to the petiseros, mostly Argentines. Not a few have passed through his stallions in Hampshire, Sandringham and Windsor. I admired his wisdom about animals. For this reason, in the midst of the pandemic, he defended them against the new British immigration law, which sought to prevent them from entering the kingdom.

At the age of 4, when he received Pennyhis first Shetland pony, Lilibeth – as they call the ruler in his family – his equine passion began. At 16 she was an exquisite Amazon. Burmese It was his favorite black horse for 18 years, when until a few years ago he rode in the military ceremonies of Trooping the color, in London. A mission he has now passed on to his son Charles.

When his father, King George VI, was already ill, he rode Winston, his father’s horse. In 1962 he inherited his racehorse from his father and until 1960 he bred his own horses, with attention to detail, monitoring and daily inspection. By 2013, the Queen’s horses had won 1,600 races, including the classic French Prix de Diane in 1974. In 1954 and 1957 she was awarded as the owner of the British champion in flat, unhindered racing. She was the first monarch to obtain it.

Unlike her mother, Queen Elizabeth did not bet on racing, but was very interested in the horse breeding process. She knew more about them than a vet, according to her specialists. To such an extent that she was the patron saint of the Thoroughbred Breeders Association in her kingdom.

His horses were (and will continue to be) born at the Royal Stud of Sandringham Palace in Norfolk. The trial continues at the Polhampton stallion in Hampshire, before passing into the hands of one of his seven trainers. After their career is over, they are either retired under his care or sold as stallions. The blood and career counselor is called John Warren, who has taken over from his father, Henry Hernet, Earl of Carrevon, who died in 2001. At his Balmoral mansion in Scotland, the queen was betting on Shetland pony breeding. She there she opened a stall to preserve the breed. And she did the same at Hampton Court with the Fell ponies.

The queen’s interest was not limited to racehorses, but also to dressing, carriage driving and polo. Everyone saw the photo of her on the Ascot royal stage watching the races with passion. It is the only time that the queen smiles openly and celebrates the triumph of her horses as before.

Betsy It was one of his favorite mares. Black as he liked her, he had bought it from a farmer and had become her favorite horse of hers. He had a strong character but the ruler wanted horses with personality, ”his own said groom Terry Pendry, who accompanied her every morning on his rides. Petition was one of the queen’s most successful show horses.

His hobby was so strong that he practiced it until the age of 95. Every day, wearing a veil, helmet, riding gloves and a long blue cloak to protect himself from the rain, he crossed Windsor Park accompanied by a groom.

In the midst of the Epstein scandal and his son Andrew’s expulsion from royal protocol, he invited him to ride together. A sign that he was still his son, despite everything.

Gradually Isabel was abandoning horses for ponies. He has recently been called her favorite Emma Carltonlima, a jet black. And despite her advanced age, the queen was not yet wearing the helmet. Everything had a reason.

“I’ve never had one and one cannot be combed the way I comb my hair if I use it“admitted to his groom to avoid the minimum security measure.

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall admitted in a documentary at the IBT: “I marvel at my mother-in-law’s stamina because no one can ride a horse at 90. It’s something I find incredible about her. “Her love for her is such that she drove the day Louis, the third child of Kate and William, her successors on the throne, was born, who she decided not to visit in hospital.

Princess Haya of Jordan, now divorced from the billionaire Emir of Dubai, a breeder like Isabel and a great Olympic rider, gave her an award some time ago. “Her Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth is a lifelong lover of horses. She is a true Amazon: no matter the time, her knowledge of her breeding and her blood is incredible ”, admitted the princess surprised.

Elizabeth II does not leave her work to the discretion of her expert instructors, but instead visits the stables, questions, gives her opinion, orders, caresses her horses and reads every morning. Racing mailthe race diary.

So far, statistics show that the queen has earned £ 7,768,448 from her horses’ skills over 31 years. She but she does not do it for the money but to be able to continue to be “a human being like the others”.

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