Exhibition Horses

UTHER: aka "Castle Oak Pendragon"

Our lead tenor of the company and star boy.

Purebred Andalusian, b.1989

By Regalado II out of Banbury Laurel

Uther is the Andalusian of the month as proclaimed by the International Andalusian and Lusitano Horse Association! Read Why - Click Here

See pictures of Uther under our Performances section.

1997 by Maestro out of Lone Pine's Masquerade (Saddlebred)

Escorial, aka, Pony, so named due to his stunted growth, was bought as a yearling, mainly because I felt bad for him. He was so cute but no one else wanted the funny colored little rascal. I couldn't help but bring him home and who knew he'd come to be a firm fixture and club mascot in the Tintagel barn.

Escorial gave his first performance at age two after only two weeks of training. Totally calm and cool, this fancy guy amazes crowds with his impressive hind leg walk and other tricks. Escorial is our best teeter-totter horse in the barn and does many of his tricks in harness as well as at liberty. Escorial is the class clown and usually steals the show, both in and out of the ring, with his amusing antics. (Until you have heard him blow raspberries repeatedly, you haven't really laughed.)

His tricks include: bow on each knee, kneel, camel stretch, circus bow, lay down, sit, rear, hind leg walk, jambette, turns on the forehand and then hind end while on the pedestal, says “yes” and “no, blows kisses, does the corkscrew, etc, etc! He is also liberty trained and does all the usual ring moves such as changes, come to center, he also waltzes BOTH directions, Spanish walks and trots along the rail, halt and back on command, etc.

Escorial also knows all his moves in harness while pulling a cart and can Spanish walk, bow, kneel, rear all while hitched. He is very quiet in public and always a show ring trooper. He goes in parades and will hind leg walk all along route! He has also shown quite a bit and has National Top Fives in Halter, Best Movement, and has won driving classes as well.

Lately Escorial has been used by a dance troop in rehearsals for a equine theatrical performance. He loves it and has become quite the Devo. While he is good at driving he often doesn't feel like it anymore and will lay down with cart and all and won't get up. Either that or he suddenly sits down like a dog and keeps blowing those darned raspberries at you making it very hard to get mad at him while you're giggling. He has also decided he doesn't ride and won't have anything to do with a rider anymore either.

Nope, no attitude here. Now that he is a professional dancer, that's all he wants to do. Speak to the hoof and have the Perrier, organic carrots and animal crackers ready in his dressing room. He's brilliant at his performances and that's all he wants to do now. So whether in a skit getting married, dancing away with his female co-stars, or bobbing his head up and down blowing raspberries, he's our funny little Pony and here to stay. He's also a great babysitter for the stallions and raises the young colts. Nothing phases or scares Pony, he'd knock an elephant down if he thought it was in his way.

So perform he does, leaving the "normal" horse work to, well, the normal horses....

Also a star of books and magazines, Escorial is available for performances and media work.

JUKER Purebred Andalusian gelding owned by Alice and Curtis Fitzgerald of Virginia. Juker spent a year here at Tintagel being liberty and trick trained. He was a wonderful student and loved his course of tricks. Juker gave his debut performance at the ERAHC show in VA in 2005. He was a bit nervous but did all of his bows and tricks willingly. The next day Juker and two friends dressed up as clowns and spent a few hours entertaining crowds at ringside. What a funny sense of humor this horse has. He loves making people smile.

Juker’s owners are willing to let him be used for charities & worthwhile benefit performances.

CAPTIVE COMMANDER A 1998 Saddlebred Stallion. These horses make such wonderful trick horses! Their natural exuberance and playfulness just exudes from them when they work. Commander can never learn enough and never wants to end a session! He is one of the few horses able to lay down on either side and I believe may be the only one who can roll over on command! Commander is sold now and is still learning tricks from his new owner and is available for performances.

Tintagel usually has many different trick trained horses in the barn at any given time, some of which may be purchased. Here is a gallery of some of our horses that have been with us through the years.