I can’t really imagine anyone in the past management wanting to really commercialize it or put out lipizanner toys in a big way. They seem to have always not been very public in a lot of ways.
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What if the Spanish Riding School Disappeared?
We’ll send you the French Riding School or the Russian Riding School or the Kentucky Fried Chicken Riding School, with a good marketing plan you can sell everything to the US of A.
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You always seem terribly disappointed in the world, RG.
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We’ll send you the French Riding School or the Russian Riding School or the Kentucky Fried Chicken Riding School, with a good marketing plan you can sell everything to the US of A.
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You sound like a person that got denied entry into the USA:lol:. I guess your marketing was not good enough:D
with a good marketing plan you can sell everything to the US of A.
Tis true. This is where the money’s at. 
You do sound just a tad envious, RG, of the great U.S. of A.
losing the SRS
Once upon a time (on this board, or perhaps that OTHER one) it was suggested for the SRS to allow subscriptions to a real time video link of the daily goings on at the school. Daily training at the SRS !! Surely there would be interest in that.
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Tis true. This is where the money’s at.
You do sound just a tad envious, RG, of the great U.S. of A.[/QUOTE]
I think there might be something else going on…there was a 21 yr old corporal that died in Afghanistan in a military holdup. He has the same name and he was part of the troups that were dispatched when the whole mess started with Iraq and some european nations sent troops as well. He was dutch. Me thinks RG does not like the USA. If you google at google.de you can read it. It’s sad.
Yes, that is very sad. But whoever is using RG’s name to post all this nastiness on a Dressage BB…is pretty twisted. :no:
If that is true then it is pretty sick. However Ronald Groen is a dutchname and not german
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I can’t really imagine anyone in the past management wanting to really commercialize it or put out lipizanner toys in a big way. They seem to have always not been very public in a lot of ways.[/QUOTE]
Then don’t sign that particular liscensing agreement–just have the disney movie and stock the shelves with SRS Kollektion. It’s a blockbuster!!
And the tourist packages would also boost their econony–yes, it’s all better than walking the horse into the van onto the jet and travelling all over. “It’s not every day one goes to an Imperial Palace for a horse show. But in Vienna life is on a grand scale, and the Spanish Riding School is no exception. Tourists begin to arrive in fine horse drawn carriages. The clip-clopping of horses’ hooves on ancient cobblestones transports us instantly into the 18th century” http://www.equitrekking.com/travelcenter/travel_articles/behind_the_scenes_at_the_spani.php
It takes six years on average for a horse to complete its training and become a school stallion. They don’t accept previous riders, and it takes about 10 years for a student to fully complete training and become a Rider. The rider and the horse remain together, forming a “life-long team”. http://www.srs.at/index.php?id=323
It’s got disney movie written all over it sigh
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The RK thing won’t sell here
I think that they will do much better by staying at home and increasing the number of performances there. As I recall, the school in Vienna seems to have been closed at the times when most tourists would be traveling (summer and Xmas holidays), which I always found strange.
It is a much smaller world than it was the first time I saw the SRS tour at the Boston Garden in the 1960s. Without the tour, and the Disney movie, they would not have become so famous particularly among non-equestrians. But now the world is much smaller in so many ways, and a little thoughtful PR and marketing can have global effect.
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I Without the tour, and the Disney movie, they would not have become so famous particularly among non-equestrians…[/QUOTE]
Oh shoot, I didn’t know they already had one disney movie, "Walt Disney’s motion picture, The Miracle of the White Stallions, depicting the rescue of the horses by General Patton’s men during World War II, did much to publicize and to create sympathy and admiration for the Lipizzaners in the United States. "
http://www.rozylowicz.com/retirement/lipizzaner/lipizzaner.html
Well, time to do a brand new take on it then, the story of a young boy and a horse…
for the second time, it’s PIBER not PIPER. since you care so much, you should try to get it right.
yes, I know it’s Piber. It’s a typo. I’ll put in a change request…LOL.
I think that they will do much better by staying at home and increasing the number of performances there. As I recall, the school in Vienna seems to have been closed at the times when most tourists would be traveling (summer and Xmas holidays), which I always found strange.
That is because, AFAIK, there is NO turnout in Vienna. They get turned out, and used for breeding, in the summer.
Their “time off” has to fit the schedule of the breeding farm.
yes, I know it’s Piber. It’s a typo.
Twice?
No wonder your perfumed fan mail kept coming back. :lol:
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I can’t really imagine anyone in the past management wanting to really commercialize it or put out lipizanner toys in a big way. They seem to have always not been very public in a lot of ways.[/QUOTE] You’ve never been there then???
The shop is full to the gunnels of lipezanner toys and every one who I employ has a key ring with a cuddly grey horse and stock pins and all my grandchildren have big grey cuddly horses and the jig saws etc etc etc.
Its commercialism gone mad already and nothing cheap either.
The horses are turned out in summer and that’s at Piber. The facilities for them in Vienna are all just inside the city and hence not acceptable as permanent.
I think the strategy of staying in location and increasing performances on home territory is actually much better than travelling all over the world and with all the associated operational cost and expenditure.
After all the price of admission is ordinarily dearer in the Winter Riding School in Vienna than when they’re touring in the likes of the USA and UK etc etc.
The horses are all classically produced and hence that means it takes as long as it takes and double it. The riders are absolutely trained, trained, trained and then trained some more and again that takes a long time. It seems to me that if staying “at home” and letting people come to them reduces operating costs and raises additional revenue AND reduces the strain of such as international travel on the horses then that’s all a good thing.
After all the Vienna performances are always full to capacity and its virtually a dead cert they could fill yet more. Its one of the “things to do” for the majority who go and far and away most attendees have little or no serious interest in serious things equestrian.
As someone who went to Vienna and was gutted to learn that I could not see a performance I would be all for more performances.
I was a silly naive traveller (this was before the days of internet) that had no idea you had to book so far in advance to see the show.
Vienna however is a beautiful place to visit so all was not lost.
