The name of this population
of horses comes from the mountain of the same name located in the high Val d'Enza,
in the province of Reggio Emilia, where the presence of horses has been documented
from the times of the Duke Ferdinand of Bourbon to those of the Serenissimi Farnese
and the Duchy of Maria Louisa of Austria. Even after the unification of Italy and
up to the 1940s these lands continued to supply horses to the army. In the last
forty years the stud farm of Ramiseto and the Borzacchi-Bertoldi stud have continued
with stallions of English derivation and ‘improved’ maremmanos. In the 1960s the
Bertoldis used a Lipizzano stallion and an improved maremmano stallion, from which
the majority of the oldest brood mares making up the current pase of the Ventasso
horse breed derive.
Source: Agraria.org
About Ventasso Horses
