Photo shoot with Godo PM

I give you the horse and put the whole shoot together — all you do is come.

01Permission. Shooting on the coast is cleared in advance, and the dates depend on the season.
02Transport. Horsebox to the beach and back.
03Handling the stallion. In the open he is worked by someone who knows him.
04Photographer. He shoots us all the time, and the horse is used to him.
05Time. Two to three hours, preparation included.

Why this is not turn up and shoot

For the first half hour in a new place a stallion looks around, not into the camera. So the shoot starts with him settling, not with frames.

The horse, the location and the crew are mine. You arrive to a shoot that is already standing.

Young horse led in hand at the stud farm

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A team of professional riders

Starting young horses

You have bought a young horse that has never been ridden — I will get it going under saddle. I do not start it myself: the work is done by a team I have ridden with for years.

01In hand. Tack, lunge line, obedience from the ground.
02Weight. The rider mounts, the horse stands. No movement at all.
03Walk. First steps under saddle, then as far as the horse allows.

What a professional rider does

A professional rider works someone else’s horse in hand and under saddle: starts it, trains it, prepares it for you, for competition or for sale. That is not an instructor — an instructor teaches the person.

I run the process and I answer for the horse, but the one in the saddle is the rider. I name the timeline only after I have seen the horse.

Tatiana Getsman among young horses at the stud farm

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Spain and Germany

Finding and buying a horse

Direct contact with the stud farms, papers checked, the deal and the transport carried through.

01The brief. What you need from the horse, and at what budget.
02Shortlist. I see the candidates on site and cut them before you fly out.
03Papers. Studbook check by UELN: pedigree and the entries against it.
04Deal and transport. Contract, vetting, shipping.

Spanish and German horses are different work

In Spain I deal with the stud farms directly and check everything in the LG PRE ANCCE studbook: the database is open, and the UELN gives you the pedigree and the indices.

Germany is another market with other studbooks — sport breeds with their own grading systems. What you verify there is not the same, and the horse is chosen for the sport rather than for breed type.

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Double pearl

Godo PM semen

Homozygous for pearl: every foal gets the pearl gene.

Coat colour table, indices and terms →

Tatiana Getsman leading Godo PM on the beach

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Valuation and channels

Help with a sale

Valuation, materials, listing and finding the buyer.

01Valuation. I look at the horse and say plainly what it will actually sell for.
02Materials. Photo shoot, video of the gaits, studbook extract.
03Channels. Listed where professionals look, not on classified boards.

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Equestrian brands

Collaborations

Joint shoots, brand integrations, appearances at events.

What I do