Friday 26 October 2012

Advanced cross country riding at the Italian Cavalry School in 1906

In the first decades of the 20th century the Italian Cavalry School at Tor di Quinto near Rome was - along with the French Cavalry School at Saumur - the leading institution for horsemanship in the world. Tor di Quinto was probably the foremost academy for advanced cross country riding. 

As you can see from the photographs below (taken in 1906) the elite of the Italian cavalry officers had to master some rather difficult situations, without falling from the saddle .....




Still in the 1930's the Tor di Quinto Cavalry School maintained its high standards, as you can see from this video:



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