Founder and Honorary President of the Lusitano Breed Society.

Sylvia Loch started with ponies aged 8 and by the age of 15 was teaching children and their parents.  Originally a keen hunter and jumper, she became involved with classical dressage when she first landed on Portuguese soil in l969 and fell in love with the Lusitano.  Award winning, international best-selling author of many DVDs and books on classical riding and the Lusitano horse including the Royal Horse of Europe and The Classical Seat. Her last book The Balanced Horse includes a foreword by British Olympic gold medal winning dressage rider Carl Hester.  She is currently working on a new book, 'The Balanced Rider'.  Sylvia also founded the Classical Riding Club and has travelled the world giving lecture demonstrations, training clinics, judging Lusitanos, and is much in demand for lessons on her advanced Lusitano schoolmaster Prazer.

She is probably one of the best known aficionados of Lusitanos who, with her late husband Lord Loch, was the first to import Lusitanos into the country in numbers.

Amanda is a choreographer and musical arranger for dressage and equestrian productions. 

She was drawn to the Lusitano breed via her work with music, and was truly enamoured with their grace,agility and intelligence. 

She accidentally became the owner of Eborio (pictured) who insisted she bought him.

He was two years old and came trotting across an orange Grove.The rest is history and was the beginning of a wonderful and enlightening adventure.

Rui was apprenticed to Francisco Bessa de Carvalho (Chief rider for the Portuguese School of Equestrian Art) for 17 years before turning professional and setting up his own riding establishment near Lisbon. Based in Portugal, he holds monthly clinics at Saddlesdane Equestrian Centre, near Faversham in Kent. He has been in this country for the last 8 years training and competing in dressage and showing Lusitanos with multiple results at regional and national shows.   Photo: Bertaimeges

The Studbook secretary can only answer straight forward  questions by phone but anything else such as change of ownership or horse information must be done by email. I cannot respond by text message or messenger.

Tel: 07527887011

Horses have loomed large in my life, all of my life. I clearly remember the look of terror on my fathers face when I had my first riding lesson and was put on a 16.2 hunter, to see if I "had what it took". Apparently I had. I was 6 years old. That was 60 plus years ago, and I am still addicted. I was given my first Luso, (Girassol from the Casa Cadaval stud) 20 years ago, by a very dear friend. Little did I realise he was almost Luso royalty, having been one of Felix Brasseurs double gold medal winning team at the WEG. That was it, I fell in love with these very special horses, and I hope to enjoy them for many years to come.