Ridden for over 5000 years, the oldest saddle horse in the world has reached the threshold of the XXI Century reconquering the splendour it knew in Greek and Roman times when it was considered the best saddlehorse in the world.

Selected as a hunter and for combat throughout the centuries, it is versatile, docile, agile and courageous. Thus it can compete in the most up to-date equestrian sport with the best specialists of contemporary breeds. Approaching towards the year 2000, the Lusitano is once more sought as a saddlehorse for sport and leisure, and as a stud horse for its rare qualities of character and genetic ancestry.

A “hotblood” like the English throughbred and the Arab, the present day Lusitano results from a selection of thousands of years leading to an empathy with the rider superior to any modern breed.

As only a small group of 2000 productive mares exists, it is nowadays a very rare breed. In Portugal, origin of the breed, the are only about 1000 productive mares, 600 in Brazil, 200 in France and the rest spread over Spain, England, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Canada and USA.

In the XXI Century the Lusitano will continue to be the best horse for equestrian art and for bullfighting and besides being a horse that gives the greatest pleasure to ride, it will continue to amaze us by its natural aptitude for jumping, and for Dressage and Competition Driving.