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Klarina
My life, my horses.
Polo
After a lifetime of horses and styles, techniques and adventures, I found my way.
When I first encountered polo, I knew I had found my new path of life. I moved heaven and earth, travelled solo to Argentina and found in Cordoba a place where I could learn how to play polo in exchange for my riding expertise.
I went there with a mission: to then open a polo club in Austria and build a future. I named my club Alpe Austria Polo Club and from there I started with my polo career and my polo horse breed. …from where my path opened and started to spread over Switzerland to Spain.
¡Vamos!
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Horse breed Klarina Star
My stallion “El Star” is a world-class thoroughbred stallion from the finest blood lines. I bought him in Switzerland at4-years-old, retrained him to polo and simultaneously started to breed with him from best playing Argentinian polo horses.
Not every stallion can be played as a stallion, and even fewer as a top a breeding stallion. This unique set of criteria I finally matched. My stallion is the best ‘headed’ horse I have encountered in a lifetime of spending every hour of every day with horses, dealing with thousands of them in close contact.
His offspring, my breed, are exclusively high-quality polo horses. They combine high speed, athleticism, a very good head and character, the exterior of a classic polo-argentino, and the natural, instinctive, understanding of the game. All this as well as a natural communication between them and me. (It is not unusual for my horses to run after my car, for example, when they follow me from the playing field to their paddock.)
The breed POLO ARGENTINO is a combination of thoroughbred and criollo, and the sires of almost all famous polo horse studs are usually thoroughbreds.
Iberian horses
Playing the “AMOR”. This is how I feel, when I can connect one of my horses for whom I try to find a new home, to its new owner, his “AMO”, as the Spanish call it. When it happens, it is almost magic. One simply knows, now this is my horse, it and I hear very often the explanation; we clicked.
Living in Spain as a horse-lover it was very natural for me to get involved with the beautiful breeds of horse they have on the peninsula: the Andalusian (Pura Raza Española) and the Lusitano (Puro Sangue Lusitano). Watching a Spanish horse dance a classic performance is like having seen a horse ballet.
The Spanish horse won my heart not only for its beauty and strength, but also knowing how delicate my pure-blooded polo horses are, I find it amazing what a natural resistance Spanish bloodlines show to nature and her elements. They resist Andalusia’s brutal summer sun and the heavy winter rains that the Iberian Peninsula gets. I having seen them hunt at full speed over the naturally extremely rough terrain.
I came to understand their natural resistance. And I am stunned by it. It is equally striking how strong their nerves are, seeing them being ridden in the “Feria de Abril” in Seville, within a moving mass of horses, carriages, children, and thousands of celebrating dancing people.
Polo player
Handicap: +4 (female), +1 (mixed), HPA licensed polo coach (international)
I have my best time playing polo.
It is the time when you forget about an existing world, all there is, is the moment.
There is a famous saying in polo language, we don’t stop until Palermo.
KLARINA PICHLER
Email polopro010@gmail.com
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