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Interview
with Bea Borella on her new video Circus School and what it is like at home with very different horses.
[HFL]:
By the way, your English is beautiful.
[Bea]:
Thank you.
[Bea]:
If you would like to see more of my work. I have two videos in the market which shows the ground and basic work of
circus tricks.
[HFL]:
I don’t think of them as circus tricks. I
just think of them as training the horse who happens to do some amazing things.
I think the training you do with your
horses is just wonderful. Absolutely. You do most of your work in-hand, don’t you?
[Bea]:
It seems to be, yes, but it’s not the case. I’m more known working on the ground especially with ponies because I
have this wonderful pony called Ben. But
I’m originally, and still, I am a dressage rider. I have two horses: a Trakehner mare and a
Lusitano stallion, which I train daily in dressage in high school.
[HFL]:
Really
[Bea]: And I don’t know whether you know, but my husband is Philippe Karl.
[HFL]: Yes, I do know and I’ve seen some of the work he does as well. [Bea]: Hans Hollenbach is very much insisting that we come to Canada and teach there. Probably it is first Philippe who is going to go, maybe me too. We’re going to see. [Bea]: So I’m riding also. I have more luck concerning the health of my horses with my ponies, they are unbeatable. Whereas with my horses with the stupidest things, they are quite often ill. But at the moment, I’m riding even enjoying it. [HFL]: That’s wonderful. I know sometimes you just keep going with them and something happens. It can be so frustrating sometimes. [Bea]: It happens to be very, very often that I am so frustrated and so down when they are ill and when I cannot work because I’m in a whole lot [of] pain. First of all, I like them. I would just like to feel them with me and be with them. Secondly, when they are ill, they cost me a whole lot more than when they are not. I run crazy. [HFL]: That’s very true. So you have a Trakehner? [Bea]: I have Trakehner mare. Concerning her character, she is wonderful. But from her confirmation, [she is] very delicate. She is like a giraffe. She has long legs and she is very, very fragile. She’s a little complicated on the back. She is just not a good conformation on the upper line. So this is one point, she definitely has physical problem. And on the other hand, she is a Trakehner and they are completely different: more sensitive, more complicated and she’s definitely one of them. [HFL]: That’s like the stallion I worked with a rehab training case. And you’re right. His problem was that he was so incredibly, incredibly sensitive that the only way I can describe it to someone was that he had nerve endings on top of nerve endings.
[Bea]: She can jump incredibly and she has a wonderful piaffe, but when
she’s doing she has not a minimal of trust and she’s so excited that
you work more to calm her down than just in her natural capacity. It’s
frustrating because she’s so highly talented you could tell her, “Why,
do it. You’re wonderful!” When she sees an obstacle, she is so
excited and a little bit in the direction of panicking. But she’s
jumping mountains. [HFL]: So is the Lusitano stallion very different for you?
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