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September 2018

TDN Weekend December 2016 Issue 9

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"After the race, my main concern is getting the horse out of the square, and however many people there are they do part for a horse, so we were out of the square and back to the stable pretty quickly after the race," he says. "If an injury happens it's remarkable how quickly the team can get a horse off the track to an area to be treated. There are other equine disciplines which make me feel far more uncomfortable. They have a great passion for the horse in Si- ena. There's only a relatively small num- ber but they are looked after incredibly well and they can go on for years. There have been 12- or 13-year-olds running in the Palio, which tells its own story. They are loved and when they are retired they get well looked after. The mares go off for breeding and the city has a retirement farm for old Palio horses that don't find another home."

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