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California and Texas. About 100 live in Virginia and approximately 12,000-14,000 remain in Spain.
Highly prized as war or cavalry horses in Europe, Andalusians were considered valuable booty. European wars and internal conflicts in Spain further decimated the breeding stock. Due to USDA quarantine restrictions and the rarity of the breed, U.S. buyers can only import about 50 horses a year from sources in Spain, Portugal, Mexico or Costa Rica.
Bred by Hollywood producer Greg Garrison, Domino is an American-born 13-year-old stallion. Owned by Alice and Curt Fitzgerald, Tamarack River Farm in Rixeyville, he’s won breed and performance championships at the most prestigious shows in the country. “Andulusians are not a breed you can manhandle,” said Alice Fitzgerald, “but they will do anything if you ask them. Even the stallions have wonderful tractable temperaments that make them fabulous riding horses, and they are great with children.”
In tracing Domino’s history, Fitzpatrick uncovered a story as romantic as any modern movie. During the Middle Ages, Carthusian monks hid the horses in their monestaries to protect them from being confiscated, she explained, but the Spanish Inquisition forced the horses into private hands when the monestaries were disbanded. Two members of the Spanish aristocracy, a Don Vincent Romero and, later, Don Fufrasco la Chica Navaro, became the breed’s patrons and continued to improve the bloodlines.
By the early 1800s, a transplanted Irish family, the Terrys, made their mark in
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