Palio Update: And the Winner is….

For those of you who inquired about how our horse did in the bareback race the day after the dinner…and there were a few…

The Oca contrada’s horse…Godmade.

The race did not come off as planned. For the first time in 155 years, a sudden rainstorm forced postponement of the event. See what it takes to postpone the Palio: Palio Rained out

The race was rescheduled for the next day, July 3rd.

We don’t want to give away what happened, so watch the attached video (which runs 2 minutes). Note this is a bareback horse race, no saddle, no stirrups for the jockeys. Invariably, not all the riders stay on their horses. If you watch carefully, you’ll see some horses finish on their own. Link: The Race Itself.

Yes, the Oca horse Godmade won this year’s race.

As the Italians say, “Vinci, Vinci, Vinci!”

For those of you who want to see the full pageantry, the attached link (which runs 2 hours and 42 minutes) shows it all…without having to stand in a crowd of 40,000 for hours on end: Palio Pagentry.

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