Italy
The Triple Crown series consists in three races at increasingly longer distances.
- Premio Parioli at Capannelle Racecourse in Rome, 1600 m, Group 3
- Derby Italiano at Capenelle Racecourse in Rome, 2200 m, Group 2
- Gran Premio di Milano at San Siro Racecourse in Milan, 2400 m, Group 1 (also open to older horses)
Read more about this topic: Triple Crown Of Thoroughbred Racing
Famous quotes containing the word italy:
“When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)
“I think sometimes that it is almost a pity to enjoy Italy as much as I do, because the acuteness of my sensations makes them rather exhausting; but when I see the stupid Italians I have met here, completely insensitive to their surroundings, and ignorant of the treasures of art and history among which they have grown up, I begin to think it is better to be an American, and bring to it all a mind and eye unblunted by custom.”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
“the San Marco Library,
Whence turbulent Italy should draw
Delight in Art whose end is peace,
In logic and in natural law
By sucking at the dugs of Greece.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)