Don Ramon Martin Hernandez-Cañizares has been with cattle & horses since he was a child and later inherited the Retinto cattle and bulls from his father and started his own Pure Spanish horse breeding stud in 1993.

Nowadays the Stud continues to breed horses and Retinto Cattle. Their horses are well known as having magnificent functionality with exceptional temperaments, movements with elevation, cadence, impulsion and wonderful character for people to be able to practice and enjoy all kind of equestrian disciplines.

The stud has 30 brood- mares with great homogeneity, all from the same blood origins descending from Albero II. They have been selected with a strict breeding judgement in order to maintain the characteristics of the breed, their movements and temperaments.

Last year Dehesa de Cabeza Rubia initiated a new criterion in breeding mares to objectively analyse their aptitudes for work and functionality.

The mares as well as the fillies live in freedom all the year round.

GUARDAMAS I

Born in 2000, 16.00 h.h, he is a qualified young stallion under the new system of breeding qualifications.

Guardamas I is recommended by the Ministry of Agriculture for the discipline of Dressage and Classical Riding.

He is working at Grand Prix level and soon will start competing under the hand of Eva Navarro Villamar.

ARMAS TARUGO

Born in 2001, 16.02 h.h, he is a qualified young stallion, graded under the new system with the highest stallion qualifications.

Armas Tarugo is Spain’s overall Champion of Functionality; also a winner of many morphology competition shows and in 2007 he became absolute functionality champion in all the competitions he entered.

His currently working at the level of Prix St George.

Dehesa de Cabeza Rubia stud’s objective is to breed horses with very good character, temperament and excellent movements which are the characteristics of our Purebred Spanish horse.

One of their obsessions is breeding horses good for work and pleasure with distinctive straight and cadenced movements.

Dehesa de Cabeza Rubia is located 50 km on the road from Badajoz to Villanueva del Fresno, Alconchel, region of Olivenza, in the province of Badajoz, southwest of Extremadura.

Stud is easily reached from Madrid: 450 km by highway, from Seville 200 km, and from Lisbon 200 km.