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The Palio di Siena (Italian: [ˈpaːljo di ˈsjɛːna]; known locally simply as Il Palio; from Latin pallium) is a horse race held twice each year, on 2 July and 16 August, in Siena, Italy. Ten horses and riders, bareback and dressed in the appropriate colours, represent ten of the seventeen contrade , or city wards, in a tradition dating back ...
The Palio di Asti (or Palio Astese in its most archaic nomenclature) is a traditional Italian festival of medieval origin that culminates with a bareback horse race. The race has been run each year since the 13th century. [1] The earliest record, cited by Guglielmo Ventura, [2] dates from the third quarter of the 13th century. It has taken ...
Palio is the name given in Italy to an annual athletic contest, very often of a historical character, pitting the neighbourhoods of a town or the hamlets of a comune against each other. Typically, they are fought in costume and commemorate some event or tradition of the Middle Ages and thus often involve horse racing , archery , jousting ...
A total of 373 3-year-olds have been made eligible to compete in this year’s Triple Crown series during the early nomination period. Led by Citizen Bull, last year’s 2-year-old champion male ...
A contrada (plural: contrade) is generally a district within the Italian countryside.In the city of Siena, the term indicates the 17 urban wards, whose representatives race on horseback in the Palio di Siena, run twice every year in July and August. [1]
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February 19, 2024 at 8:47 AM. ... The main race is the richest in the horse racing event in the world, with a purse of $20m (£15.86m) on offer. “It is, without doubt, ...
The 2024 World's Best Racehorse Rankings, sponsored by Longines was the 2024 edition of the World's Best Racehorse Rankings. [1] It was an assessment of Thoroughbred racehorses issued by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IFHA) on 21 January 2025. [2] It included horses aged three or older which competed in flat races ...