Hall 12 of Fieracavalli reconfirms itself as the “place to be” where visitors can witness the best of star-studded sporting competitions and get up close and personal with the breeds typical of this fascinating area.
It begins on Thursday at 09:00 with the opening parade, during which all the Team Penning participants will officially kick off the Western Show, an unmissable event featuring the best in morphology and mounted competitions. On this occasion, penners will pay tribute to Otello Ugolini – the pioneer who introduced this discipline from the US to Italy – through the Int Open 15 competition.
Next, the spotlight will turn on the Futurity – the public’s most eagerly awaited challenge, in which teams will battle it out on the thousandth of a second with horses aged between 3 and 4 years – flanked by the Ladies and Youth categories , for all-round public involvement.