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Relax & Cavalli - Abano Terme
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Chef de piste,
course designer. The
French word, more than
the Italian one,
describes a job that
involves matching
materials - the
obstacles - rules and
everything else with
imagination and
creativity.
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We asked Antonio Rasero,
the international course
director who creates the
show jumping routines
that take place at
Abano Terme, the
truth regarding this
statement and a few
other little secrets.
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Rasero admits that his
courses are marked by an ease
rich in ambushes and
difficulties: “I was a
rider once, this experience
makes it natural for me to do it
this way. Some other colleagues
of mine have to think about the
difficulties”.
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A course director
is also responsible for an entertaining horse show. It’s a kind of
flop to devise a too difficult routine that everyone does wrong, or, on
the other hand, an easy one that doesn’t absolutely select anyone.
But there are other tasks. For instance, set the sponsored
obstacles in the best places in order to be clearly seen by the audience
and the cameras.
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Look after the
obstacles colours
harmony.
“There aren’t special
colours I like to match,
but there’s one I don’t
like: yellow. This is
because I’ve experienced,
and it has been studied,
that the white and
yellow obstacle is the
one that the horses
usually get wrong. I
never include it in a
routine”.
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Even environmental factors
create difficulties that the
course designer thinks about and
exploits in the routine.
Environment doesn’t only involve
the weather, but also a heavy
ground that obviously and
rightly influences the choices.
But there are more subtle
environmental factors. For
instance, the course
designer’s “cunning” can make
use of a ray of sun that, at
a certain time in a certain spot
of the course, blinds the riders.
Or he can also exploit a
disturbance created by people
passing in certain places and
set a difficult obstacle right
there.
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