Spain's Madrid Countryside Training and Trail Riding

You can experience passage and piaffé, train your eye with show jumping schooling and enjoy exhilarating gallops (Janette will be walking) across country with castles on the hills. Offering the chance to train with Salavador Fabregas, you can experience dramatic improvement in every discipline. Salvador Fabregas held a key position at the Real Federación Hípica Española and now teaches and runs his own equestrian center, The Molino, your base for the week. Featured in Architectural Digest, The Molino, is a centuries old country house and equestrian center located near the medieval town of Pedraza, just outside Madrid. Offering very comfortable rooms, excellent cuisine and very tranquil surroundings, you will be able to truly focus on learning. Your lessons will be on purebred Spanish horses, also called Andalusians, considered for centuries the noblest and most beautiful horses in the world. Each day you will receive two one-hour lessons concentrating on your individual goals. Either before or after your lessons you will be able to hack out in the dramatic Castilian countryside. This vast unspoiled land is dominated by mountains, castles, medieval villages and rolling hills for fun gallops (Janette will be walking). At the end of each day, you will enjoy the excellent Spanish wines and gourmet dinners with the chance to discuss the previous day's progress. You will visit the town of Pedraza on horseback and also have an afternoon in Segovia where you will have a guided driven tour of the town. Afterwards free time to shop and wander around this historic town.