2 luglio 2022

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Drago wins Palio ridden with only 6 contrade

Contrada del Drago won the Palio di Siena, 2 July 2022. The Drago triumphed in the photo finish ahead of Torre. Only 6 districts participated in the Palio. After the exclusion this morning of Istrice and Chiocciola due to minor injuries to the horses, before the forfeit of Leocorno (another injury to a horse) and of Bruco after the jockey’s fall in one of the starting attempts.

To bring Drago to victory was the horse Zio Frac, a seven-year-old bay gelding debut at the Palio, ridden by the jockey Giovanni Atzeni known as Tittia. The jockey won his eighth career Palio today. The previous victory of Drago dates back to 2 July 2018. The Contrada in the centuries-old history of the Sienese festival has thus reached its 39th victory.

Drago snatched the ‘Cencio’ from Chiocciola, Pantera, Torre, Valdimontone and Lupa. The winning Contrada was thus awarded the drappellone that this year bears the signature of the English painter Emma Sergeant: it is an elegant figurative work, in which the skilful gouche hatching enhances the representation giving life to that union between the sacred and the profane that the Palio di Siena is able to create. Of great visual impact the head of a horse that dominates the whole central part, the true and only protagonist of the Sienese festival, which releases beauty, strength.

The alignment to the ropes of the horses was particularly agitated, which recorded five false starts starting at 19.30 when the quadrupeds entered Piazza del Campo after the parade of the 17 Contrade Historical Parade, opened by the Drappello dei Carabinieri on horseback . The triumph of Drago took place after 57 minutes from the start of the Career.

The exit of the horses of the Leocorno and the Bruco from the race was not the only twist of the Palio of 2 July initially foreseen with the Career of ten districts. In the morning, after the ‘provaccia’, the mayor Luigi De Mossi, after consulting the veterinary commission, had to exclude two horses from the race, that of Civetta and that of Istrice, due to minor injuries reported by the animals. “A painful decision, but necessary to protect the protection of horses,” said the mayor.

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Palio

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Horses

1	Una Per Tutti	2	Viemmidietro
3	Zenis	4	Ungaro De Bonorva
5	Violenta Da Clodia	6	Vitzichesu
7	Takatursa	8	Tiepolo
9	Volpino	10	Zeus Zeno
11	Rio Manigos	12	Zeniata
13	Schietta	14	Vankook
15	Unamore	16	Tout Beau
17	Vento Fresco	18	Zinzula Sedilesa
19	Vino Santo	20	Zenios
21	Zentile	22	Uragano Rosso
23	Zio Rosas	24	Tristezza
25	Viso D’Angelo	26	Volcan De Bonorva
27	Zio Frac	28	Urmia
29	Urian	30	Symposium
31	Reo Confesso	32	Unico Ozierese
33	Balzana	34	Zaminde

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Batterie

1° Batteria

2° Batteria

3° Batteria

4° Batteria

5° Batteria

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Assegnazione

1	1	Una Per Tutti	Pantera
2	6	Vitzuchesu	Valdimontone
3	9	Volpino	Leocorno
4	13	Schietta	Istrice
5	14	Vankook	Civetta
6	21	Zentile	Chiocciola
7	22	Uragano Rosso	Bruco
8	25	Viso D’Angelo	Torre
9	27	Zio Frac	Drago
10	31	Reo Confesso	Lupa

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Prove

Prima Prova

Seconda Prova

Terza Prova

Quarta Prova

Prova Generale

Provaccia

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