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Relax & Cavalli - Abano Terme
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Abano Terme has come a
long way in order to achieve,
during the 2002 edition of the
horses festival, the
“horse-friendly city” prize.
It’s a charming journey that
dates fifty years back. It was
1950 and Abano didn’t yet
have a riding course as it has
today and neither a stadium
where the jumping shows could be
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The first three
in fact took place on a
makeshift course: a
piece of land belonging
to the hotel Savoia
Todeschini. Right from
the first edition also
the “Abano Terme Horse
Show” gained a great
importance. As a proof,
among the participants
to those 3 editions
there was Raimondo d’Inzeo.
D’Inzeo in a way
“christened” Abano’s
Horse Show. A real
myth of the Italian and
the world’s horse-riding:
only 2 years earlier, at
the age of 23, in 1948,
he participated to his
first Olympics.
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The Italian rider’s Olympic
history is very long and
impressive: he participated to
all the Olympics from 1948 to
1976 and won six medals. The
golden one at Rome in 1960, the
year in which he doubled the
success he had at the world
championships in 1956.
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The year 1952, Abano
Terme Horse Show’s IV
edition, the first two took
place in 1951, is very important.
The Nursing Home’s Newsletter,
the issue is one of the very few
in those years and is still kept
at the Abano Terme Town Library,
announced that the organization
would launch the Terme Stadium.
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The
“Aponus” Association, the
group that has now become the
Hotelkeepers Association, and
its president, Giovanni
Bresciani, supported the new
stadium’s project. But for Abano
1952 is the year in which
Antonio Segni, then the Minister
of Education and future
President of the Republic,
stayed in the city for about a
fortnight. |
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An idea of how long ago it is is
given by the fact that volley
was held at the stadium. Not
clay pigeon shooting, still to
come, but real pigeon shooting.
The 1952 Horse Show was another
success for the D’Inzeo family.
Raimondo won three prizes. His
brother Piero (2 silver medals
and three bronze ones at the
Olympics) one.
The organization is both a
technical and popular success:
a record of arrivals and stays,
111 horses compete in the Horse
Shows and there are 6000 people.
The FISE president, Ranieri di
Campello, describes Abano’s
Horse Show as “one of the most
important in Italy”.
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In the following years the
Horse Show has always taken
place regularly. As evidence
of its importance the attendance
of the best Italian horse riders.
The 1954 results, for instance,
sees Oppes, D’Inzeo and
Spezzotti. At Abano in 1955
there are all three. They
compete for prizes of a maximum
of the old 150,000 liras. |
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