Horses are Made to be Horses

When Franz Mairinger died in 1978, the Australian equestrian world lost its most esteemed riding master. 

Born in Vienna on 11 December 1915, he enlisted in the Austrian Cavalry in 1935 and was chosen to attend the highly regarded Cavalry School of Hanover where he spent two years receiving thorough training in jumping and three-day eventing.  His skill so impressed the Director of the Spanish Riding School of Vienna that he was offered a position at the School, where he worked for more than twelve years with great success.  His appointment as the first trainer of an Australian Olympic Equestrian team in 1955 was the beginning of an extraordinarily successful association.

Horses are Made to be Horses is both a testament to the life and ideals of the former Spanish Riding School instructor who trained six Olympic equestrian teams for Australia.  Mairinger believed that the relationship between horse and rider required something far deeper than mere ownership or performance.  It demanded a sensitive understanding of the interrelationship between all the earth's creatures and of the 'laws of nature'.

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