Nuno Oliveira

Nuno Oliveira ( born June 23, 1925 in Lisbon, † February 2nd 1989 in Australia) was a Portuguese riding master and author.

Life

At a young age inspired by his riding instructor Concalves de Miranda (1870-1940), a riding master of the Portuguese royal family, he was riding an early age to his vocation. First, peri-urban, and later in the rural area of ​​Lisbon, he worked incessantly with young and older horses from breeders, horse lovers and bull riders. He was able to draw on an immense and profound knowledge of the most important classical riding masters of past centuries.

In the 1960s, he became known for performances in large horse shows in London, Geneva and Brussels on the borders of Portugal addition. In the 1970s and 1980s, students came from all over the world to learn from him and he gave courses in many countries outside Europe.

He understood riding as an art, where in addition to technique and feeling, the craft and the knowledge above all love has a large share. As a sport he has never operated the riding, which is why he is not known as a competition rider.

Feature

Oliveira's special gift was to find out which each have slightly different method for the individual horse, with which it could be developed successfully for the top of his individual abilities. He has worked both with Iberian horses, as well as with thoroughbred and warmblood horses. Some of his most famous horses were Euclides ( Lusitano / Andrade ); Beau Geste ( Lusitano ); Talar (English thoroughbreds ), Soante ( Alter Real), Bunker ( Budjonny ).

He is awarded (18th century) and Baucher ( 19th century), the synthesis of the hitherto somewhat contrary to each other schools of the old French riding master de la Gueriniere. Free from stereotyped thinking, in which some classical rider had fallen, he used pragmatically the average of all schools if they promised success in working with the particular horse.