Argentinian Gauchos and their horses
No other country brings so many foals into the world as Argentina, no other country exports as many horses and nowhere else in the world is there such a rich and diverse horse culture as in Argentina. The film, which is part of the series “Under the Spell of Horses”, gives the viewer a glimpse of three very different worlds: the gauchos in the pampa, the exclusive polo scene and the daily fight for survival of the cartoneros, the rubbish collectors in the gigantic city Buenos Aires. Director Thomas Wartmann recounts a personal story from each of these worlds, each of which ends with a small dream coming true.
Gauchos and their horses - for centuries they were the heroes of the pampa and the symbol of freedom. The men who sit on the saddle 60 hours a week still exist today in the vast grassy plains of the Argentinean steppe, for many distant corners of the estancias can only be reached on horseback.
At six, young Juan is the youngest rider on San Juan Poriahu, an estate with 4000 cattle and over 300 horses. His father is responsible for the ‘doma’ here, the traditional taming of wild horses, and Juancito has to learn the job from the bottom up. Juan‘s greatest wish is to put his riding skills on show at a fiesta with his stallion `Colorado`. Next week he will finally get the chance.
The life of polo player and horse breeder José Lartirigoyen is very different to the lives of the gauchos. Polo is a national sport, but it is also a business. Polo horses are created by artificial insemination on so-called ‘embryo farms´ and carried to term by surrogate mothers. Argentinean horses are one of the country’s top exports and are sold round the globe. Like most professional polo players, José only spends half the year in Argentina; the rest of the time he is on the polo fields of the super rich all round the world. But there’s still a long way to go before that: first of all the horses will kick off the season at a match in a country club in Buenos Aires. Here they will have to prove that all the long months of training have paid off.
Horses are not just the privilege of the upper class in Argentina. Pitu und Marina live with their five children and a mare called Negra in a corrugated-iron hut on the outskirts of La Plata. The family would never survive without Negra. Every evening she returns from the city with the rubbish that others have thrown away. Negra belongs to the cartoneros - the cardboard and rubbish collectors. Around 800 horses, ponies and mules provide the livelihood of the entire neighbourhood.
Vet Doctora Oliva actually teaches at the veterinary faculty of the university but for the last five years she has made the cartonero horses her purpose in life. ´Con alma por los caballos´, ‘with heart and soul for the horses’, she calls her crusade.
Once a week Dolores attends to the animals which have been injured by shoving, beating or incorrect harnessing. Like old Santiago. The cartonero horse was mistreated and lost his eye. Without an operation he would probably die of an infection. But the Doctora is used to improvising and has a way of persuading her colleagues to do a good deed - for nothing if need be....
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Gorgeous control over so many horses
Did the Gaucho trip in Argentina ! It was so fun. Rode horses and eat their Asado.
@tundrawomansays694
Ай бұрын
What a wonderful experience that must have been-lucky you!
Excellent document.Incredible movie.They loved their horses.Gauchos are the national symbol of Argentina. Long live the Argentina and United States!!!.....from Fort Worth, Texas....I love you Argentina...❤❤❤...
@edmundomendez7963
Ай бұрын
Saludos para ti y q Dios los bendiga
The vet is very admirable. What a kind and generous person.
@redmule8621
3 жыл бұрын
it's kind of disturbing when you can get a horse vet to go into the slum to take care of horses but you can't get a doctor to volunteer and help people.
@leoscheibelhut940
3 жыл бұрын
@@redmule8621 Very true!
@5eba
3 жыл бұрын
@@redmule8621 In Argentina the health system is free. There's a small hall for small emergencies in every slum and anybody can go to a hospital. The halth system has its problems, vut is accesible to all.
@redmule8621
3 жыл бұрын
@@5eba I wish more countries would do that for their people that's been left money on weaponry. Pain and left red tape or a person could just go in and get help no questions asked.
@5eba
3 жыл бұрын
@@redmule8621 I agree. Education from kinder to university and health should be part of the basic standard of life guarateed to any citizen. Those one of two of the few positive things Argentina still preserves.
What spectacular, majestic animals. Thanks, much appreciated. 29:31 Hurts the heart beyond words. Sometimes I think humanity is just evil. And then there’s people like that vet.
This is a beautiful freedom life and tradition.
@tundrawomansays694
Ай бұрын
But a hard life as well. The Experts always make an endeavor appear easy. Beautiful horses, I’d love to have one (or a dozen!) of them!
This woman vet commitment for the horses and the poor is just amazing and heart warming
Los gauchos son el símbolo nacional de Argentina 🇦🇷 viva la patria!!
@marcordriguez5050
3 жыл бұрын
Que orgullo da ver estas cosas una de las cuantas culturas que tenemos en nuestra hermosa argentina!
@frano6567
4 ай бұрын
Mučitelji konja😢
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Special thanks to guest speaker.making this presentation more authentic and possible -!!! 😉. Enjoying this presentation from the comfort of my computer room. Along the " Space Coast " 🚀 of. Florida 🐊🐊🐊. 1-27-24.
Well done!!!!! Is a nice intro to Argentina's country life!!!!! Makes me feel like coming back for a visit after 33 years!!!! Blessings and more blessings!!!!!😃
Great video. Good to know the poor and rich side of Argentinian horses. Please never abuse a horse 🐎. Saludos desde IDAHO, USA.
@wilburdemitel8468
2 жыл бұрын
I will abuse a horse... (i am an american living in agrentina)
@lili.h1813
2 жыл бұрын
@@wilburdemitel8468 why?
@makenziemay5449
6 ай бұрын
@@wilburdemitel8468Bru wha... you trying to make Americans and Argentinians look bad?
The vet seems like a good person helping people
Respect for this vet, Beautiful video! thank you for sharing!
This Documentary is at least 15 years old but still accurate in many thing, many others had changed.
Great video and wonderful vet who has a heart for the poor working horse and the poor people who rely on them. Wish I was young again, I would have to go to Argentina countryside and enjoy it's beauty and their horses and it's people.
Lots and Lots of respect to that Horse Vet...!
This beautiful woman vet is absolutely wonderful with her time and her ability to help and heal these horses. She also helps the owners with proper knowledge of what to do and how to care for the horses . God bless her and her team is definitely these horses angel 😇🐎🐎🐎🙏🏻❤️
The lady vet is an absolute 'Saint' - it seems the horses can sense it.
Gauchos de la Provincia de Corrientes. Hermoso mí País y su gente.
@wilburdemitel8468
2 жыл бұрын
corrientes no es un pais
@wilburdemitel8468
2 жыл бұрын
@JAVIER MILEI PRESIDENTE 2023 🇦🇷 era joda no se enoje
@Quantum122
7 ай бұрын
@@wilburdemitel8468Sorry, CORRIENTES REPUBLICA APARTE!!! Y su existencia es anterior a la constitución de la Argentina y seguiremos perteneciendo a ella mientras queramos!!!
Lady Vet is amazing. Like an angel
Excellent documentary. Most of them loved their horses. Seems like some horses were beaten and the vet was so kind trying to do the best for the situation.
The Gauchos and the Criollo Horses in Argentina.HEY! 🏀🐴🇦🇷🥐🤠💙⭐️❤️
Loved the documentary for some beautiful stories
dude at 17:00 living my stardew valley life.....riding my horse into town and rummaging through the garbage
@pennylane428
3 жыл бұрын
Kkkkkkk
Viva mi patria argentina viva la tradición argentina 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷❤️
Outstanding video . 👏👏👏
Watching from Kenya 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪
@celinofj
3 жыл бұрын
Hi! :)
@kevohwapipelinetransami4351
3 жыл бұрын
@@celinofj hi too
I live in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It borders both Argentina and Uruguay. We have a lot of Gaúchos here, also, and it makes me happy to see this video! A lot of things that I can learn from you, even living not far from where it was recorded... Thanks! And keep doing your great work!
@celinofj
3 жыл бұрын
I don't know if it's from your interest to make more videos about this, but in Rio Grande do Sul we have a slightly different culture of Gaúchos. They speak portuguese instead of spanish, they love to eat 'Churrasco' & other differences... We also have some dances here, where people wear themselves as Gaúchos: kzread.info/dash/bejne/go14ptWEdqm0krA.html
@wilburdemitel8468
2 жыл бұрын
GAUCHO FAKE SOPA DE MACACO
Thank you
Awesome video with lots of Information and knowledge about the horses. Really enjoyed n learned With Love from SAM Guwahati Assam INDIA
@After9designNetwebdesign
3 жыл бұрын
Everything you learned from this is wrong. There are a lot of really good horse videos on KZread. Look them up and forget these brutal methods.
Давно не смотрел документальный фильм с таким удоволствием. Спасибо.
Profession with Purpose doesn't remain selfish .. 👍.Lady vet is a good soul. GOD bless her.. 🙏🙏.How cruel a heart to cut a horse's ear..😡😡
So cute, he wants to learn now!
Villa Alba, me mueroooo jajajajajaj yo me crié ahí! Excelente documental
Great vid, interesting, love the horses. Need more vids like this!
6:33 that calf just flew off
Thanks for th doc guys
@lesterkirby3367
3 жыл бұрын
It a new thing on you tube ...iv been to a phone shop to C U ...carnt be blocked...or got rid off...
they take excellent care of their horses, they all have shiny clean coats when the ones they don’t ride.
would have liked a follow up on the eye surgery. would be a beautiful place to live and work.
Los gauchos son la continuación de lo que inicialmente fueron los dragones de cuera españoles en los territorios de ultramar. Grande Argentina!
thanks
This is so lovely to watch. So good, fantastico
@sandrajenkins6822
3 жыл бұрын
What a nasty little film. Horses hobbled, tied up and terrified, constantly thrashing them with stinging ropes. It's a nauseating display of bad horsemanship and arrogance, hardly an advertisment for Argentina.
@LoonaVanza
3 жыл бұрын
@@sandrajenkins6822 may be i had my eyes closed while watching this cause i didn't see any of those things you mentioned above. Weird
@sandrajenkins6822
3 жыл бұрын
@@LoonaVanza Terrified and hobbled at 25.12, lashing at 27.08
@sirg8569
Жыл бұрын
@@sandrajenkins6822 Jamás serías capaz de entender siglos de tradición, esto se lleva en la sangre. Nuestros animales, nacen y mueren para esto.
that 'bay' horse sure looked like a chestnut to me
@designstash3670
3 жыл бұрын
You beat me to it. Lol
@michelemacdonald552
14 күн бұрын
I was thinking a sorrel
🇮🇪. Very good video sharing
I want to buy that bay colt with the star on his forehead!!!
Terrified and hobbled at 25.12, lashing at 27.08
I Like this Domestic Animals is like the Criollo Horses,and Mules in Argentina. And this is the Game of the Sport Horses like the Polo League Champion, and but there’s Wild West country of Argentina is like the Gauchos and the Large Herd of Criollo Horses. HEY! ⚽️🐎🇦🇷🥐🥤🏞️🏘️🏟️🪐💙⭐️❤️🎶🛻
In Brazil we also have gaúchos. Actually they exist in Uruguay as well
@Donmava
3 жыл бұрын
Jajaja que acontece envidia
@aknsmar2768
Жыл бұрын
Quien te pregunto flaco?
@abelc2829
9 ай бұрын
en rio grande do soul..solamente
see this in Texas
Jajajajaja mi barrio villa Alba 😂 es internacional
It’s not a bay... it’s a sorrel...
❤❤❤❤
Fantastic-didley doo!!
W i Gauchos ❤
Columbus didn't conquer South America, with or without horses 🤨 It was Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca that first brought the horse into the Pampas
wow
It's not a bay, it's a sorrel, genius.
54😮ใจร้ายกับหมาป้อม
3:44: Columbus didn't conquer South America...he barely visited the place...
@celinofj
3 жыл бұрын
Well, any portuguese or spanish people were very strong in that age... But he only discovered South America :P Idk if he even visited that place in Argentina.
Wow that's a lot of adverts
@filliusawusi6174
3 жыл бұрын
Cast with Google Chrome cast.. No Adverts..
@deeyears3978
2 жыл бұрын
Or pay for KZread premium!
Real cowboys 😊
it's kind of disturbing when you can get a horse vet to go into the slum to take care of horses but you can't get a doctor to volunteer and help people.
The “bay” horse is actually a chestnut...
lastima que no se puede subtitular al español !!!!!
@argiberico
10 ай бұрын
aprendé el inglés; no te hará menos Argentino
i want to talk about the estancia with the little Juan, in that place they explicitly abused the calf on the fiesta and you are still making a fucking part of a documentary about it
@njkbad6541
3 жыл бұрын
Documentaries are supposed to document, warts and all, not hide issues
@reidbankert4425
3 жыл бұрын
Whether you think it’s wrong or not documentaries are made to see situations from other people’s perspectives. Not to wallow in your own.
The second vet looks like Stan Lee 😅
Fiesta means party in Spanish And lazo means rope
Is very interesting to know about the Gauchos people and their traditional way to maintaing their horses. 🐎🐎🐎 I hope these traditions continue through the younger generation like Juancito. 🏇🏇thanks for sharing this amazing documentary. Greetings.
@sandrajenkins6822
3 жыл бұрын
What a nasty little film. Horses hobbled, tied up and terrified, constantly thrashing them with stinging ropes. It's a nauseating display of bad horsemanship and arrogance, hardly an advertisment for Argentina.
Ah horses
The barbwire fence.
I want to marry a gaucho, really
👋😉
the horse eating paper made me sad. If i could give everything to everyone I would
At 2:50 ..... That's not a Bay Horse. It's a Sorrel. A Bay has a dark mane and tail.
I highly disagree with the training methods shown in this, this is not how any horse, ESPECIALLY A FOAL, should be trained. Horses also literally cannot be bad, it is impossible for them to have any sort of malicious intent because they do not have the capacity to think like that, just like they have no notion of respect, horses can not conceive the idea of respect.
@sirg8569
Жыл бұрын
Son caballos salvajes que tienen es sus genes mucha inflamación de previos caballos y siglos de trabajo y vida libre. Estos caballos sólo se pueden domar si confían en el hombre que intenta montarlos. Esta forma de doma, viene de las civilizaciones indígenas, así se ha hecho por casi 500 años.
48:55 no shoes, and the cigarette is not moving an inch....
The way they start horses in this video is very close to abuse. Look at the rope burn marks on the horse's nose at 26:30. and the riding at 49:50... SAD.
too many ads
What the in mate
Giving cat medicine
Kind of a flimsy fence. Those big Brahma cross cattle would push through it you would think
Farasi.. Horses in Swahili..
WHICH BREED IS THIS ?
@arieloq
3 жыл бұрын
The race is criollo... Is a mix of Berverisk horses and andaluces decendents from the first horses that the conquerors bring to america... Although they are not very fast, they are very strong and resistant, they are used mainly for work ...
Way too many Ads to watch.
12:48 Daniel the top breaker literal cause that what the are doing to the poor horses breaking them breaking their spirit their essence thats not how you train a horse plus you don’t gains trust forcing a foal to lay down you gain trust when the foal lays down by its own (like to rest) and then you slowly approach and pet him Edit: 26:36 you can see the wound the halter make to the horse they were breaking
@bautilo6600
3 жыл бұрын
I agree with you, i’m Argentinian studying for veterinarian, i can assure you they do love horses but they are so undeveloped in terms of animal health care, both physical and mental.
@sirg8569
Жыл бұрын
Son siglos de doma, así lo hacían los indios pampas y así lo hacemos los criollos.
So cruel to the foal
What a nasty little film. Horses hobbled, tied up and terrified, constantly thrashing them with stinging ropes. It's a nauseating display of bad horsemanship and arrogance, hardly an advertisment for Argentina. Qué pequeña película tan desagradable. Los caballos cojeaban, atados y aterrorizados, azotándolos constantemente con cuerdas punzantes. Es una demostración nauseabunda de mala equitación y arrogancia, difícilmente un anuncio de Argenyina.
@virtualselfie6899
3 жыл бұрын
Hobbling that horse to the tree and terrifying it to death made me ill. There has to be a better way to communicate and train horses that have not experienced human touch.
@mayitajams8255
3 жыл бұрын
you train horses ever sandra?
@bautilo6600
3 жыл бұрын
I agree with you, i’m Argentinian studying for veterinarian, i can assure you they do love horses but they are so undeveloped in terms of animal health care, both physical and mental.
@sandrajenkins6822
3 жыл бұрын
@@bautilo6600 Hi, I think they'd have a shock to see how I'm 'breaking in' my Criollo (bought from Germany last year, you can't find them in the UK.) I'm very gentle and calm with her. When you become a vet you can change things!
@sandrajenkins6822
3 жыл бұрын
@@mayitajams8255 I'm training one at the moment, her name's Clara, she's a Criollo, I bought her from Germany last year. I als trained my other two.
Excuse me? Columbus conquered South America? And you guys make documentaries about countries? Columbus only set a foot on South America for ONE DAY (August - 5 -1498) to plant a cross and the flag of the Spanish Crown on the coast of what we know today as Venezuela, on his third voyage to the new continent, and he was NOT a conqueror, neither was he a soldier, he was an explorer, a navigator who is credited with, arguably, discovering America, he never conquered any lands. I guess you flunked History in Middle School. .
@olafharoldsonnii4713
2 жыл бұрын
Also a Mass Murderer
Lasa
No entiendo
Symbol of freedom? I don´t know, man
Big and healthy animals!
Los que ganan con los caballos 🐎 de polo son los jugadores del deporte, pero los peones los que atienden al caballo es muy bajo el sueldo que les dan.
Quisiera saber en que parte de Argentina buscan alimentos en la basura, si bien hoy en el 2023 más que nunca se sigue revolviendo la basura, en CABA está prohibida la traición a sangre.
@thaby098
9 ай бұрын
si salís de CABA vas a ver que todavía siguen usando el caballo a tracción ... acá en moreno es pan de cada día
How sick can someone be to cut off a horse’s ear. I can’t believe people can mistreat horses or any animals for that matter.
I love Horses... Im my IKEA Frozen Burger!
Terrorizing young horses doesn't sound like training to me. It's brutal and is hard to excuse.
@argiberico
10 ай бұрын
it´s no longer done there
Glorified animal cruelty? I dont think so
The twigs that erase knowledge
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