Vitor Silva's Sons of the Wind - Classical Dressage School & Lusitano Sales

Vitor Silva's Sons of the Wind - Classical Dressage School & Lusitano Sales Sons of the Wind, European School of Equestrian Art with Vitor Silva.

With his passion for classical dressage, Vitor Silva shares intuitive classical horsemanship and the Lusitano school masters with a wide range of students – from amateur enthusiasts to instructors and competitive riders. Students come to Sons of the Wind from across the United States and represent a diverse range of backgrounds, interests, and riding disciplines.

Lunging at Sons of the Wind is not warm-up. It is work. The lunge line teaches the horse balance before a rider's weight...
06/12/2026

Lunging at Sons of the Wind is not warm-up. It is work.

The lunge line teaches the horse balance before a rider's weight is added. It develops the hind leg. It teaches the horse to carry itself — to swing through the back, to accept contact on the outside rein, to find rhythm without being pushed into it.

This is one of the reasons the SOTW lunging system looks different from what most riders have seen. The intention behind it is different.

Sons of the Wind has never run an ad. It has never needed to. The people who come here find it the way serious students ...
06/10/2026

Sons of the Wind has never run an ad. It has never needed to.

The people who come here find it the way serious students always find what they're looking for — through someone who has been here, who tells someone else, who eventually makes the call.

That's not an accident. It's the result of 28 years of doing the work correctly, matching horses to riders carefully, and being honest about what this program is and isn't.

A schoolmaster is not a made horse. He is a teaching horse. The distinction matters. A made horse performs the movements...
06/08/2026

A schoolmaster is not a made horse. He is a teaching horse. The distinction matters.

A made horse performs the movements. A schoolmaster helps the rider understand them — by responding correctly when the aid is right, and honestly when it isn't.

The schoolmasters at Sons of the Wind have carried many riders. They know the work.

They know the difference between a clear ask and an accidental one. That knowledge is what the student borrows, for as long as it takes.

06/05/2026

This young horse is under saddle for the first time.

The SOTW team is in Brazil this week checking in on the progress of the young horses there.

A big part of the SOTW philosophy is that young horses are started with no fear. There is no bucking, bolting, or rearing. Just a simple program to start the horses with the right foundation.

The riders who come for a summer don't leave the same. It's not one lesson that does it. It's the accumulation — daily w...
06/03/2026

The riders who come for a summer don't leave the same.

It's not one lesson that does it. It's the accumulation — daily work on the same horse, with the same principles applied consistently, until something in the body starts to understand what the mind has been trying to learn.

That's what the schoolmaster offers that a clinic cannot. Continuity. A relationship. A horse that knows the work and asks you to meet it. Summer here is quiet and demanding in equal measure. Most people find that's exactly what they needed.

The Lusitano's sensitivity is not a liability. It's the point. A horse that responds to the lightest aid teaches you som...
06/02/2026

The Lusitano's sensitivity is not a liability. It's the point.

A horse that responds to the lightest aid teaches you something a less sensitive horse cannot: that the aid was too much.

That the timing was off. That the position interrupted what the horse was willing to give.

Riding a Lusitano correctly makes you more precise. It makes your timing better. It makes your seat quieter.

These are not things you can shortcut your way to — the horse simply won't allow it. That feedback, given consistently and honestly, is how a rider develops real feel.

Good training starts before you get on.The SOTW horses have daily turnout, proper nutrition, and bodies that are monitor...
05/27/2026

Good training starts before you get on.

The SOTW horses have daily turnout, proper nutrition, and bodies that are monitored consistently. When a horse is comfortable in his life, it shows in the work — in how he responds to an aid, how he recovers between sessions, how willing he is to try.

We don't separate the care from the training. They're the same thing.

Vitor has been doing this in the United States since 1997. Built this program from the ground up, in a country where cl...
05/24/2026

Vitor has been doing this in the United States since 1997. Built this program from the ground up, in a country where classical dressage was not yet well understood and Lusitanos were nearly unknown.

That foundation is why students travel here. Not just for lessons with a recognizable name, but for access to something that took decades to build and can't be shortcut.

The work speaks for itself. It always has.

The Lusitano has been shaped over centuries into something rare — a horse with the sensitivity to respond to the lightes...
05/21/2026

The Lusitano has been shaped over centuries into something rare — a horse with the sensitivity to respond to the lightest aid, the courage to stay calm under pressure, and the willingness to work in true partnership with a rider.

That doesn't happen by accident. It happens through generations of intentional breeding, by people who understood what they were preserving.

That's the responsibility we carry with our stallions. Marechal, Oxidado, Ouro, Maximo— each one chosen because he represents something worth passing forward. Not just correct conformation or impressive movement, but the qualities that make a Lusitano a Lusitano.

The breed is too good to take shortcuts with.

Every spring, the horses come home to Massachusetts.There's a particular feeling to the first week back — the light is d...
05/18/2026

Every spring, the horses come home to Massachusetts.

There's a particular feeling to the first week back — the light is different, the air has weight to it, the barn smells like spring instead of winter. The horses settle into it gradually. So does everyone else.

Florida has its rhythm. Massachusetts has its own. After months of one, returning to the other takes a few days. The schedule rebuilds itself. The work continues, the same as it was, just in different air.

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12981 Casey Road
Loxahatchee, FL
33470

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Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm
Saturday 8am - 5pm
Sunday 8am - 5pm

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