A Portrait of Amalia Ruscone
A Passion for Side-Saddle
Full of grace and with very fine aids, Amalia Ruscone rides her mare through the arena and shows the most difficult dressage lessons. Everyone can see that the young Italian trains her horses with great sensitivity and patience.
Full of grace and with very fine aids, Amalia Ruscone rides her mare through the arena and shows the most difficult dressage lessons. Everyone can see that the young Italian trains her horses with great sensitivity and patience. Amalia discovered her passion for horses and riding side saddle at a young age. Since then it has been her greatest dream to show the beauty of this riding style, which has been declining in popularity over the past few decades, to her audiences. At CAVALLUNA she uses the opportunity to showcase her passion for this special discipline.
Horses Are like a Second Family
With unbelievable ease and elegance, Amalia shows the most difficult dressage lessons - the young Italian trains her horses with great sensitivity and patience.
In order to maintain and keep alive the extraordinary discipline of side-saddle riding, which is not very common nowadays, she even founded an organisation called AIMA (associazione italiana monta all' amazzone) with three like-minded people.
Originally, this riding style was invented for elegant ladies, so they could wear long dresses while sitting on the horse. It is much more difficult than riding the modern way, since the rider has much less control over the horse with only being able to use one leg. The other leg is usually replaced by a whip - not to hurt the horse of course, only to guide it in the right direction.
