On Sunday, November 13, 2022, the San Siro Racecourse in Milan was illuminated by the magic touch of Lanfranco Dettori.
The world’s most celebrated jockey claimed victory in the Premio Federico Tesio, a Group 2 over 2,200 metres on the San Siro main track, riding the Italian-bred Tempesti in the colours of Razza Dormello Olgiata—securing the stable’s first success in the race dedicated to its legendary breeder-trainer.
The other feature race of the day, the Premio del Piazzale – Memorial Enrico Camici, a Group 3 over an extended mile on the main track, produced a striking performance from Bahja del Sol. Four hundred metres from the finish, he unleashed a powerful and progressive turn of foot, drawing clear to win by six lengths from Emperor of Love in second, with Wonnemond a short head further back in third.
The three-year-old, trained by Alduino and Stefano Botti, was perfectly partnered by Sergio Urru, guest of the twenty-first episode of Equos Mondo Galoppo. He joined us not only to reflect on his victory, but also to revisit the many luminous moments of a day that stood out as a celebration of Italian racing.
The meeting also paid tribute to Luciano D’Auria — the trainer of Falbrav — who passed away last year at the age of 87, just two days before Christmas, with a race held in his honour.
Voices from the protagonists, gathered directly at the racecourse by Filippo Brusa, are also featured: Lanfranco Dettori, Franca Vittadini and Riccardo Santini on Tempesti’s success; Dettori once again, alongside Bruno Grizzetti and Dario Vargiu, remembering D’Auria; Pietro Cadeddu, former jumps jockey, together with his son Michael, now a successful rider in Germany; and Sara Del Fabbro, winner of the Premio Primavera, the main handicap over 1,800 metres on the middle track, aboard Voices From War. The programme also includes a brief greeting from Sergio Dettori, a much-loved former jockey.
When San Siro Becomes Pure Beauty
«e nadi contra suberna»
Arnaut Daniel, the Limousin troubadour honoured by Dante in De Vulgari Eloquentia and proclaimed—through the voice of Guido Guinizzelli, in line 117 of Canto XXVI of the Purgatorio—“the better craftsman of the mother tongue”, once described himself in these words:
“Jeu sui Arnautz que amas l’aura
E chass la lievra ab lo bou
E nadi contra suberna.”
Translated from Provençal, these lines read:
“I am Arnaut, who gathers the wind,
who hunts the hare with the ox,
and swims against the current.”
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“E nadi contra suberna”
“And swims against the current”
is the motto of Filippo Brusa’s website—a journalist who deliberately moves against the current of dominant narratives, pursuing truth against all forms of censorship, challenging the hypocrisy of political correctness, and resisting the suppression of dissent imposed by “mainstream thinking” and the pervasive logic of cancel culture. It is for these purposes that he founded Rivincere
“Jeu sui Arnautz que amas l’aura
E chass la lievra ab lo bou
E nadi contra suberna.”
Translated from Provençal, these lines read:
“I am Arnaut, who gathers the wind,
who hunts the hare with the ox,
and swims against the current.”
–––
“E nadi contra suberna”
“And swims against the current”
is the motto of Filippo Brusa’s website—a journalist who deliberately moves against the current of dominant narratives, pursuing truth against all forms of censorship, challenging the hypocrisy of political correctness, and resisting the suppression of dissent imposed by “mainstream thinking” and the pervasive logic of cancel culture. It is for these purposes that he founded Rivincere
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