Performances

One of the latest activities at Tintagel was a visit by Animal Planet who needed some footage for a short segment for one of their TV shows.

They provided their own stunt rider, Bob Allegretto, who had worked with Mel Gibson on the movie The Patriot, and all they needed was a horse.

The action required was to gallop through hill and dale and I decided to use one of our broodmares, Caprichosa with Uther as the double for close ups. They are almost identical!

The funniest part of the whole filming was when they wanted to film the horse galloping with the camera right next to her. "Do you think she’ll be OK if we put the camera man on the ATV and drive next to her?" The producer asked. "Let’s find out" I replied.

Sure enough, true to her calm Andalusian nature Cappy never blinked as I roared the ATV into fourth gear not ten feet from her while at full gallop.
So with myself driving and Tom, the camera man, hanging on for dear life onto the back, we made several passes at top speed around the fields.

As funny as this all was they ended up getting some of the best footage of the day! Then Uther was used for close-ups and got the easy job of the day!

The stunt rider had never ridden Andalusians before, much less a trick trained one, so when the filming was done we had some fun letting Bob ride Uther through some of his tricks.

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