Friday, 6 September 2024, 19:31
As is now custom, horses as soon as once more took centre stage on Thursday 5 September on the Ronda Feria (honest) in Malaga province, which is an area vacation within the municipality. Round 100 riders gathered on the Ángel Harillo fairgrounds to participate within the equestrian costume and apparel competitors, an occasion that began 15 years in the past. The occasion has been rising in reputation each since.
The competitors began at 3pm and the jury awarded various prizes, reminiscent of the very best dressed rider, amongst others. The occasion was attended by mayor of Ronda, María de la Paz Fernández; the councillor for festivals, Rebeca Muñoz; and the Goyesca Women and their President, Milagros Naranjo, amongst others.



The competitors was additionally attended by the previous bullfighter and businessman Francisco Rivera Ordóñez, who was honoured within the rider class.
María Dúctor from the Membership Hípico Deportivo de Ronda (horse using membership) additionally a businesswoman linked to the world of horses and a nationwide choose, was a member of the jury along with José Fuentes Montaño, from El Rubio, who’s well-known within the within the business. “Now we have grown so much in high quality, which works to indicate that this competitors is having an impact. The intention is for the riders to learn to costume, in accordance with the prevailing canons. There are guidelines which are already written down and we would like them to not be misplaced, the intention is to take care of the custom and the best way of dressing that exists in decrease Andalucía”, stated Dúctor.



Amongst different issues, she identified that the jury values points such because the horses’ saddles, the rider’s clothes, the hat, that the colors should not gaudy or strident, that the horse has no wounds…. “We can’t reward, for instance, in a girl, a purple jacket, nor flowers or large earrings,” stated Dúctor. “We do not reward essentially the most good-looking, we reward the one who’s most consistent with custom,” she stated.



Fuentes defined, “There may be a variety, an excellent stage, of riders and horses, which is the primary foundation of what we would like in a good. At this honest there are horsewomen, {couples}, particular person riders, younger riders, youngsters…. this selection makes the occasion much more lovely and attention-grabbing”. He concluded that “the festivals these days are filling up with good horses and well-dressed riders and horsewomen”.