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.

One student splits her year between a demanding corporate job, Massachusetts, and Florida. Her horses stay in full train...
08/29/2026

One student splits her year between a demanding corporate job, Massachusetts, and Florida. Her horses stay in full training the entire time she's away. She doesn't come back to start over — she comes back to horses that kept progressing without her, ready for wherever she left off. For an adult amateur balancing a career around riding, that's not a convenience. It's the reason the whole thing is sustainable.

One student describes her first Lusitano this way: if she made a mistake, he didn't react. He'd wait for her to sort it ...
08/27/2026

One student describes her first Lusitano this way: if she made a mistake, he didn't react.

He'd wait for her to sort it out. That patience isn't a personality quirk — it's a defining trait of the breed, and it's a real part of why so many adult amateurs coming back to riding later in life end up on a Lusitano instead of somewhere else.

Too kind, and a student doesn't progress. Too challenging, and it's worse. The actual skill in teaching an adult amateur...
08/25/2026

Too kind, and a student doesn't progress.

Too challenging, and it's worse.

The actual skill in teaching an adult amateur is finding the space between the two — enough challenge that succeeding at it means something, not so much that succeeding feels out of reach.

That's not just encouragement. That's how confidence actually gets built.

Marie Pierre came back to riding close to 50, with dressage as something she'd mostly seen in books. What she found inst...
08/22/2026

Marie Pierre came back to riding close to 50, with dressage as something she'd mostly seen in books.

What she found instead was individualized down to the horse: what Maggie works on with her has nothing to do with what she works on with the next student, and the training on one of her horses looks nothing like the training on the other.

That's not a brand line. That's just how the lessons actually run.

Vitor’s training didn’t begin as a method. It began with years in Portugal, rooted in culture and tradition. What he bro...
08/19/2026

Vitor’s training didn’t begin as a method. It began with years in Portugal, rooted in culture and tradition. What he brought back wasn’t a system designed to be sold.

It was a way of working, one that never needed updating to remain relevant.

The Lusitano was bred for versatility before it was bred for a ring — cattle work, military use, classical equitation. Y...
08/17/2026

The Lusitano was bred for versatility before it was bred for a ring — cattle work, military use, classical equitation.

You'll see the breed in dressage arenas and working equitation courses today, and that's not a departure from what it was built for.

The breed didn't change to fit the sport. The sport changed to make room for what the breed could already do.

The first minutes of every ride aren't about getting started — they're about finding out what showed up that day. Tensio...
08/14/2026

The first minutes of every ride aren't about getting started — they're about finding out what showed up that day.

Tension doesn't disappear on its own. Left unaddressed, it just gets asked to move under saddle instead.

So warm-up starts with no demands, just observing before deciding what to ask for.

Owning a SOTW horse means never having to wonder what you're getting into. Maggie and Vitor have already put the time an...
08/13/2026

Owning a SOTW horse means never having to wonder what you're getting into. Maggie and Vitor have already put the time and effort in to make sure it’s a perfect match.

Training here doesn't look like constant correction. One longtime student describes her lessons this way: when nothing i...
08/11/2026

Training here doesn't look like constant correction. One longtime student describes her lessons this way: when nothing is being said, that's how she knows everything is right. The instruction isn't withheld — it's just not needed as often as it used to be. That's not a lucky rider. That's what years of the same fundamentals, applied consistently, actually produces.

Mary Beth Keister came to SOTW at 84, after fifty years away from riding. She remembers deciding to trust the place befo...
08/10/2026

Mary Beth Keister came to SOTW at 84, after fifty years away from riding. She remembers deciding to trust the place before she ever took a lesson — standing at the gate, looking at how the barn was kept. "I saw this wonderfully kept, beautiful place," she said, "and I thought, somebody here really knows what they're doing."

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