Buzkashi, ancestral competition. We present Buzkashi, one of the most loved sports in Central Asia and which, in a certain sense, tells its story. Ancient ancestor of polo, this game will open you up to a distant world that proudly stands the test of time. The game of the Turks Buzkashi , an ancestral competition, […]
Monty Roberts the man who listens to horses Monty Roberts the man who listens to horses, as a child prodigy at the court of the Queen of England. The story of the inventor of the gentle tame Monty Roberts is the author of the famous bestseller entitled “The man who listens to horses” . In […]
The extraordinary story of the Pony Express It only lasted a handful of months, but it will remain etched in everyone’s imagination. Cinema, literature and dreams here is the extraordinary story of the Pony Express Today we will tell you the short but extraordinary story of the Pony Express It took only 18 months of […]
We all now know the therapeutic abilities of pet therapy… but in this story the protagonist is not a dog or a cat… but a horse !! Hassen Bouchakour and Peyo had met years earlier. The first was an artist who performed as a dancer, gymnast and falconer. One day he decided to enrich his […]
The most important and richest sulky trot race took place yesterday, Sunday 26 January, at the Vincennes Hippodrome (Paris). € 900,000 up for grabs and this year the victory went to the favorite Face Time Bourbon, led by Goop: 2700 meters in a time of 1’11 ″ 50. According to Davidson du Pont and to […]
In Japan there are some unique ,indeed tehy are heavy draft horse races, the largest and most powerful horses in the world, which pull heavy sleds urged by a driver who uses only the reins and not a whip.It happens in Obihiro, in eastern Hokkaido, in the center of the Tokachi agricultural region. The pioneers […]
The Selle Museum In the province of Florence, and more precisely in the locality of Marradi, the idea of a “saddle museum” was born. The author of this beautiful initiative is Vincenzo Moffa who in the course of his life has expertly preserved any object related to the world of the horse, creating a curious […]
Everybody who loves horse racing cannot certainly ignore this name… Federico Tesio (Turin, January 17 1869 – Milan, May 1, 1954) was an Italian breeder and politician. Even nowadays he is considered one of the most important English thoroughbred horse breeders in the history of Italian and international horse racing, and he is also recognized […]
A LONG TREKKING … 500 DAYS ON THE SILK ROUTE, FROM MONGOLIA TO THE HEART OF EUROPE The protagonists of this story are a woman and her two Mongolian horses (Custode and Чигээрээ ) Paola Giacomini, recently returned to Trento after a long horse trekking that took her from the Mongolian steppes to Poland. Check […]
Italy – Breeds: the horse symbol of the Bourbon Kingdom, the Persano The origin of the Persano horse is traditionally traced back to 1742, when Charles of Bourbon began the horses breeding to bring to life the ” governing breed of Persano “. In order to achieve this, inside the Persano estate in the region […]