I wanted to go to see the Lipizzaner Horses so Ian & I went off in the direction of the Hofburg Palace
We managed to get tickets to a morning performance it was excellent. I was very excited waiting for the horses to appear. They were perfection and the finale school quadrille was just superb. The elegant white Lipizzaner horses are all stallions and when they are born have dark or black skins. They only turn white around the age of 4-6 years. We were shown all the stages of training and the varying ages of the stallions and were lucky enough to get to see them in the stable yard across the road as well. The whole thing was of course set to music with the inevitable Blue Danube taking centre stage and finishing off with much clapping along to the Radetzky march as we all filed out of the school.
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