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Since then, for about 16 years I’veve been regularly visiting Portugal. In Portugal I found a few very good trainers and excellent horses.

Also around the same time, I began to research different training styles and passionately looked back at the old Medieval style of riding, which took me through Europe to Portugal. With Ian, I gained new skills as a trick rider and as a result, I went on to perform in live shows for a number of years. He had his own equine stunt team, called the horsemen of the Apocalypse. In the early days I trained with one of the stunt riders I had met on the 97’ Merlin, Ian.

Doing this work confirmed my decision, to learn to run Dolbadarn Film horses! On that film I rode along side some of the best stunt/action riders in the industry, I am still friends with them today. While there, my agent called to ask if I would like to work as a rider on a new Merlin movie. Having fallen in love with the business I went to college to study Performing Arts and did a degree in Theatre Studies.

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Amongst the hustle and bustle of horses being tacked up in period tack and trappings – riders in full costume mounting up and riding off to the set, two by two – I knew then this was something I’d love to do in my life. I was only 10 years old when I started to regularly assist my Mother, on location. And more famously, we supplied a hundred horses on location in Dinorwic quarry for George Lucas’ fantasy movie – Willow. They worked on top films such as Michael Mann’s WW2 Horror, The Keep, The Far pavilions, with Ben Cross – where we doubled up the horses filmed in the Ogwen valley. The business quickly grew and my parents supplied horses to many television and film jobs. To my father’s delight he was asked to assist Austin on the job, my mother got to be the double for the main actress on horseback….and so it began. However the horses couldn’t leave straight away, as he was using them in a new Sean Connery movie, in which he was the Horse Master, Zardoz. On one visit, Austin picked them up from the ferry port and drove them straight to Bray to look at the selected horses. He was based in Bray close to Ardmore Studios.

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Austin also supplied horses and carriages for TV and film.

They would to take regular trips to Ireland to buy horses from their friend, Austin Gaskin. My parents had a horse trekking business. Yes, the Dolbadarn Film horses is a family company, formed in the early 70’s. I thought it would make fun reading for you to find out more about “Lusitanos in Film’ĭolbadarn Film Horses is located in North Wales, UK and works in the film and television Industry.ĭylan as I understand, Dolbadarn Film Horses is a family business, how and why did it begin? and how long has it been running? It’s been very interesting to watch the progress of the colts and to learn more about the horses in film and television. From then on our friendship has developed. In fact, I found him two beautiful black half brother Alter Real colts. He had approached me to find a Lusitano for his film business. About 4 years ago (2010) I met Dylan Jones, joint owner of Dolbadarn Film Horses.

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