The Apennine Horse and the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines
The Apennine Horse. The Apennine Horse has decidedly recent origins, very close to the present day, origins that can be dated towards the end of the ’60s, when the first exemplars of Freiberg (Franches-Montagnes) were imported from Switzerland of the entrepreneur Vittorio Ortalli on the hills of Reggio Emilia where the entrepreneur inserted the specimens near Scandiano, in the province of Reggio Emilia, on the hills above Iano. The adaptation to the new territory of the horse was very rapid, beyond any good prediction. Here the Apennine Horse found immediate diffusion in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, populating the areas characterized by poor pastures with high temperatureRead More →