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Steve has owned and trained Spanish horses for almost
twenty years. He has training extensively in the Doma Vaquera style and
has performed Spanish and Classical riding displays for many years. A
full-time professional horseman, when not bending the backs of his
opponents in the joust Steve works with horses in the film and
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Steve joined Toby Capwell and Mike
Loades as a member of the jousting team ‘Freelance’ in 2003. In 2005
he took the coveted Queen’s Jubilee Horn in the Royal Armouries’
annual individual championship, despite several injurious encounters,
including one in which he struck so hard that he unhorsed himself! To
this day no one who was there can say how his opponent –fellow Order
member Dominic Sewell– managed to keep his seat: after the impact the
back of his left knee was the only part of him in contact with the
saddle, so fierce was Steve’s attack. Many jousters consider this
event to be a rare case of divine intervention. |
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Equipped as befits his close connection with Iberia,
Steve wears an armour in the ‘Italo-Spanish’ style, typical of the
export products made by Italian armourers for Spanish and Portuguese
clients during the second half of the 15th century. This variation of
the Italian style combines the smooth, rounded surfaces pioneered by
Milanese artist-armourers with the sharp, scalloped edges that were a
characteristic fashion on the Iberian peninsula. The appearance of
Steve’s hulking, armoured form on the field always causes a stir, but it
is his panache in the saddle and utter disregard for his own safety that
always brings the crowd to their feet, no matter whether he wins or
loses. |
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Sable, a mallet Gules, within a bordure
embattled Argent. |
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