The History of the Carriage We want to tell you the exciting story of the carriage. Of course we invite our friends who know them to report any errors or deficiencies here: customercare@clubcavalloitalia.it. Thanks right now Our contribution Before telling you the story of the carriage, we would like to tell you that we have dedicated a bag from our Bags Collection to the carriage. We called it Carriage Bag, of course it is handmade by the skilled hands of our Italian master leather workers who, thanks to their creativity, patience and ability, transform the soft and real Italian leather into a coveted, admired andRead More →

Sirlad Sirlad, (From Bold Lad Usa and Soragna from Orvieto) was perhaps more loved than Ribot and Nearco and, probably, very unfortunate. Sirlad, an myth Sirlad, a myth of Italian horse racing, an imposing horse that combined style and power that, in 1976, presented himself on the turf with his trainer Gaetano Benetti with the colors of the La Tesa Breed. At the Gran Criterium he comes out of the starting cages badly and follows about ten lengths but at 150 meters from the finish his jockey, the great Gianfranco Dettori, calls the great horse who, by putting in force overbearing strides, reaches the horseRead More →

Apelle Apelle, son of Sardanapale and Angelina, was born in 1923 and was raised by Federico Tesio, who would have raised Nearco and Ribot among the many thoroughbreds. First of all we apologize for the quality of the only photograph we found, but Apelle is a horse from the first decades of the last century and in those years the photographs were rather rare and of low quality. Apelle was a horse without that searing ending that fans like a lot but from the outset imposes a terrifying gait, capable of stopping any resistance: an exceptional “passista”. Apelle is the first… Apelle is the firstRead More →

Molvedo Molvedo (1958-1987) dark bay, was born from the first coupling season of Ribot, the best horse ever trained in Italy. The mare was supposed to be Staffa but, since the document had been lost for his trip to England, where Ribot was, it was decided to send Maggiolina, a inbred of Nearco, the most important reproductive that the Italian breeding has never produced. Molvedo has grown… Bred by the Razza Ticino in Gornate, near Varese, Molvedo was trained by Armando Maggi, had the great Enrico Camici, the jockey of his father Ribot in his most important races, had a robust structure, very different fromRead More →

Ribot Probably the Largest Horse of the Italian Horse Racing Was born… Ribot was born in England in Newmarket, in 1952, by Tenerani and Romanella, was bred by Federico Tesio and his interpreter throughout his career was the jockey Enrico Camici. A curiosity Ribot is also important to us because we entered the horse world by organizing the Memorial Ribot Event, we were fascinated by this wonderful world and we never left it.To know our history read this page. Thank you. Owes his great fame to his unbeaten throughout his career: a good sixteen consecutive victories in the most important Grand Prix disputed in Europe,Read More →

Appaloosa Horse Appaloosa Horse is a breed of horse originating in North America that cannot fail to catch the eye with its typical patchy coat. The first testimonials… The first tests of the Appaloosa Horse, the “horse with spots”, are lost in the mists of time. In fact, the cave paintings are found in Lescaux and Peche Merle in France, dating back to 18,000 BC. but painted horses are thought to be more a representation of dreams and visions than horses actually used by primitives. The typical spotted coat… The typical spotted coat gave the Appaloosa Horse many names: from the mystical celestial horse inRead More →

Friesian Horse Also known as Hard-draver (strong trotter), the Friesian Horse is one of the oldest horse breeds in Europe and some finds suggest that the progenitors of this breed were even from prehistoric times. Originally from the Friesian Islands (Holland), it is famous for its characteristic morello coat and its thick, often wavy horsehair. Breed selection… The selection of the breed was made by crossing the most powerful and heavier subjects with the Andalusian and Arabian Horses and was the protagonist in the formation of all the racing trotting races, also through the Hackney that derives from it. In the Friesian Horse three linesRead More →

Falabella Horse The Falabella Horse is a miniature horse but it is not a pony, as it is often confused, even if the perfect proportions and conformation are decidedly different from the ponies, and it has all the typical characteristics of a horse of normal stature: they are only reduced and compared to its size. For more than 150 years, the Falabella Horse Breed has been bred in the Recreo de Roca Ranch in Argentina, owned by the Falabella family, from which the Breed takes its name. The History The history of the Falabella Horse Breed is fairly recent and begins in 1845 when PatrickRead More →

The Maremmano Horse The Maremmano Horse. The origins The origins of the Maremmano Horse have their roots in the territory of the ancient Etruscans in the Tuscan-Lazio Maremma and, since then until the mid-1800s, the breed has maintained the same initial characteristics as a stocky, strong and shady horse. Around 1870 he began to cross it with more gentle and slender looking horses and, thanks to the English thoroughbred, he came to what is commonly called the new generation with the birth of the stallion Fauno, in 1902 in the royal stables of San Rossore, in Tuscany. And if you too… If you too loveRead More →

The Calabrian Horse The Calabrian Horse is an ancient breed originally from Calabria derived from a group of Arab horses imported from North Africa. The Calabrian Horse. The history The history and value of the Calabrian Horses naturally intertwines with the numerous dominations that have followed one another in the territory and, since ancient times, there are many testimonies that appreciate this breed of horses described by Polybius (Megalopolis 206 BC – approximately Greece 124 BC ) “Of elegant and quick shapes, agile and fast”. The Calabrian Horse during the Bourbon period During the Bourbon period the Calabrese Horse was crossed with the Andalusian whichRead More →