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:
“For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery—back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“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)
“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)