Anales de la Asociación de Criadores de Criollo.

Anales de la Asociación de Criadores de Criollo. Buenos Aires. 1927 - 1937.

A treasure for lovers of the Creole horse. Set of five inhalable issues of the magazine published by the Criollo Breeders Association, thus called at that time, in its first years of life. All copies (26.7 x 18.5 cm / 10.51 x 7.28 in) with their original covers, and generally in very good condition. Year II - June 1927 - Num. 3: 52 pp. Year III - August 1928 - No. IV: 68 pp. Year VI - September 1931 - Num. IX: 76 pp. Year VII - August 1932 - No. X: 68 pp. Year XII - October 1937 - No. XVI: 60 pp.

In the first four installments gathered here, we find a text by Dr. Emilio Solanet. In number 3 his thesis was published, presented and approved in the Faculty of Agronomy of the University of Buenos Aires, whose subject was "The layers of the Criollo Horse", his first contribution to a subject so expensive to the knowledge of those understood in this breed. In this issue we also find a letter sent to Solanet himself by Aimé Tschiffely from Bogotá; he was marching towards New York in his mounted Mancha and Gato. In addition, the Editorial makes a mention of the debut of a young exhibitor in the Rural of 1926, Roberto Dowdall.

In "Anales" of 1928 -number IV-, among other notes, the success of the Buenos Aires - New York Equestrian Raid is announced, with several articles, and Solanet continues with his analysis of the fur. The set offered continues with number IX (1931), it includes a text by E. Solanet referring to the iconography of the Creole horse. His expert gaze focuses on the veracity of the horses represented by different authors, such as Prilidiano Pueyrredón, Methfessel, Meyer, Grand, Blanes, Della Valle, among others. They accompany a profile on Roberto B. Cunninghame Graham written by Justo P. Sáenz, and a text by A. F. Tschiffely: Is it worth conserving the Criollo Horse?.

In the magazine number X, of 1932, Solanet continues with his study on the iconography of the Creole horse -illustrated with numerous photographs of Francisco Ayerza and other members of the Argentine Photographic Society- that is how he titled it -, founded in 1889 “by the effort of virtuosos such as Francisco Ayerza, Leonardo Pereyra and Ángel Roverano”. This long article is accompanied by two other outstanding texts, by Justo P. Sáenz: Gaucho riding of the plain, and by Ángel Cabrera: For the history of the Creole horse. The truth about bay fur.

In number XVI of Anales (1937), the echoes of Tschiffely's journey continue in his creoles from Solanet's El Cardal farm, and among other texts we find the pen of Edmundo Wernicke and R. Lehman Nitsche.

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