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:
“Lump the whole thing! Say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Uncle Matthew’s four years in France and Italy between 1914 and 1918 had given him no great opinion of foreigners. “Frogs,” he would say, “are slightly better than Huns or Wops, but abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.””
—Nancy Mitford (1904–1973)
“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”
—Orson Welles (1915–84)