January/February
HORSES OF SARDINIA
The
island of Sardinia and her people have had a detail for a long time passion
for the breeding and the use of the horse. The horse has accompanied the life
and the job of the Sardinian breeder that he anchors today for a long time he
nourishes for him a real predilection. After centuries of culture and use of
the horse, in 1874 he was founded in Ozieri the Deposit Horses Stallions of
Sardinia to the purpose to organize and to control the equine fertilization,
keep track of shows particular vocation of the island to her to the breeding
of the horse. Since then it was thought that the Sardinian horse had a certain
affinity with the horse English-Arab raised in France and therefore, beginning
from 1883, they were imported in Sardinia different stallions French English-Arabs
among which Mongarry, Fanon II and Fort Chabrol are remembered. 
In
1915 him then manager of the Deposit Stallions Cap. Grattarola conceived a project
for the institution of the horse stations that, with the approval of the Office
of the agriculture, they were endowed of stallions of verified oriental origin
what Etnen, Talata, Talata Escrin, TisaSaba, Abbajan Sharragh, Tamania-u-Kamsin
and others and contemporarily it was outlawed the stallion pure English blood.
Joined with the best native brood-mares these stallions they had to produce
an agile and resistant horse suited for the military cavalry that was supplied
annually, from Sardinia, of around thousand colts. But after some year, with
the opening in the 1921 of the racecourse of Chilivani that inflamed an extraordinary
passion for the runs to the gallop, the breeders they required that it returned
each other to cross the native brood-mares with the thoroughbred. Debates and
red-hot polemics were turned on you between the so-called “arabismi (Arabs)”
and the “purosanguisti (thoroughbred)” that, at the end, they sprouted
it, even if after one decade of battles. It was in fact in 1937 that the thoroughbred
stallion he had introduced in Sardinia again and it touched to RIGOLO, a child
of Havresac II, to cover the first brood-mares, had placed side by side the
following year for other three thoroughbred: Zenith (Kibwesi and You Swallow),
Sambor (Scopas and Sifadda) and Abimelecco (Radames and Abelle). Rigidly checked
also, the use of the stallion pure English blood didn't delay to give a new
better impulse to the Sardinian horse. From this moment it has beginning practically
the fixation of the modern race of the horse “Sardinian Arabic English”
actually to then denominated “Arabic Sardinian” .
THE MODERN SARDINIAN
ARAB ENGLISH HORSE
Continually improved and
submitted to the “test-age” functional of the runs to the gallop,
the Sardinian horse, beginning from
the fifties, after the ineluctable abandonment 
from
the traditional agricultural uses, he has conquered in Italy progressively her
“leadership” of the horse, sporting, excelling in the most varied
equestrian competitions. It goes up again at 1967 o'clock the official adoption
of the denomination “Sardinian Arabic English” and the plant of the
books of selection with the calculation and the attribution, to every subject.
Of the percentage of resultant Arabic blood from a careful recognition of the
genealogy actually to the third generation, 
according
to the rules of the genealogical book held by the Enci. The horses English Arab
Sardinian they dominate the runs for a long time to the gallop that they are
developed mainly in the Sardinian racecourses of Chilivani and Sassari and in
those of Grosseto, Siena, Naples, Corridonia, Novi Ligure, Treviso, Varese and
from last also Merano. A continuous and careful selection has allowed in
fact to experiment and to test different lines of blood that produce good gallopers
whose more accredited subjects, after being, data battle on the Sardinian footsteps
for the conquest of the circle laurel of the Derby or the Gran Bretagna I Reward,
they storm on the stages of the other national racecourses becoming principal
actors of it protagonists. The quality and the resistance of these horses constitute
a guarantee for all the impassioned frequenters of the racecourses that prognosticate
them in their bets with a lot of confidence. From over ten years the horses
English Arabic 
Sardinian
gallopers are compared annually with theirs you connect raised in France, to
Chilivani and on different transalpine racecourses, always getting positive
results and, often, winning. You are enough to remember the victory of Marika
in 1988, beating Doe and the arrival in parity of Nessitue with Djanor in 1989.
But most prestigious victories have been gathered to Tarbes (France) from Ostenda
in the Grand Prix des pouliches 1990, first affirmation of every time of a Sardinian
Arabic English horse in France, and from Vidoc and 
Vituliana
respectively in the Prix du Ministre and in the Grand Prix des pouliches 1997.
The horses Arabic English Sardinian they are also ventured with honor in the
runs in hedges showing notable attitude and resistance, also expanding their
employment the racecourses of Grosseto, Treviso, Novi Ligure, and straight Merano.
Also for the employment of the gallopers they are anticipated of the providences
“to the pole” in the conditioned and descending runs disputed in the
continental racecourses and of the contributions of preparation for the debut
in runs hedges and obstacles. These flattering results have been possible graces
to the devotion and the appointment of the Sardinian breeders that nourish for
the gallop a deep passion and an incomparable attachment. Every year to the
racecourse of Chilivani interesting reunions of runs are developed in which
English Arab Sardinian they are distinguished particularly and damns show. Also
for the tourist of passage he can be interesting to spend one afternoon to the
racecourse to the discovery of unknown emotions: the horses to the gallop, the
shiver of episode to the totalizator, the joy to see his own favorite horse
win the run.
Archaeology
CAGLIARI
THE VILLA OF TIGELLIO
With
the Romans' arrival in the III century a.C. in Sardinia Cagliari became a real
city, with plazas, 
roads,
new complexes of residences of prestige. An example of residence we have him
with the Villa of Tigellio. To arrive is enough us to take a crossroad (street
Tigellio) of Avenue Between Ignazio. The name of “Villa of Tigellio”
she was attributed to the chorister and homonym Sardinian poet. Risen at the
end of the The century a.C. she is composed from three ladylike residences placed
side by side from a narrow alley that separates them from an area in which a
thermal complex rose where possible to recognize the floor of a calidarium is.
In the first residence they are found two ionic columns that support the impluvium
that allowed the harvest of the water of the rain in a cistern (tablino) sets
to the of under of the floor and communicating with the atrium. In the second
residence, said “House of the plasters” thanks to the excavations
effected during the years, decorations murals and mosaics have been discovered
pave them of merit. The third called residence “painted Tablino” she
was paved with a mosaic to plot white and black.
ITINERARY
THE ISLAND OF TAVOLARA
Island
of Tavolara that dominates the whole coast of the Gallura, is tall 565 meters
and is fully grown of limestones and dolomite. Founded in the 1997 protected
area with Head Tail Horse she understands the coast and all the other islands:
Molara and Molarotto are the greatest. She can be reached from
I Bring Saint 
Paul
in 20 minutes. It has the form of a parallelepiped long 6 kms and half breadth.
Surrounded by a fishy and transparent sea, it has two strips of earth called
the mountainous Spalmatore only of Out and the level Spalmatore of Earth, around
everything is formed by granite edges to peak on the sea, niches and ravines.
It is not all practicable being zone Nato, there are only two restaurants to
the Spalmatore of Earth frequented in the summer months from the tourists. Her
scarce accessibility favors the maintenance of the natural landscape formed
by low stain and bushes of juniper, rosemary, lentischio and eliocriso on which
some exemplary lives of wild sheep (mouflon) cared some years ago. And really
for her beauty, around the beginnings dell’800 a shepherd Giuseppe Bertoleoni
remained so fascinated by the island that he moved you. It let her become a
kingdom thanks to the intervention of King Carlo Alberto that the hegemony recognized
him. The island is the smallest kingdom of the whole world because around the
beginnings dell’800 a shepherd Giuseppe Bertoleoni that he remained from
there so spellbound, it moved you and it let her become such, thanks to the
intervention of King Carlo Alberto, that the hegemony recognized him. Now the
island is ownership of the descendants; there is the house of the Bertoleoni
with the coat of arms of family and back the houses there is a small cemetery
with the real graves.
ITINERARY ESCURSION
RIO SA CERAXA (MOUNTAIN OF SEVEN BROTHERS
Departure: hatchery
Maidopis
Gradient: 490 ms
System of signs: you stamp red and white red
Arrival: hatchery Maidopis
Cartography: IGMI 558-IV
Difficulty: And (for excursionists)
Clean time: 4 hs
I hock physical: simple excursion for comfortable paths
ACCESS. From Cagliari
to cross the Road National n° 125, to the km 30,1 are turned to the right
and it continue each other actually to the poster A.F.D.R.S., crossed the gate
(he closes at 17.00 o'clock!) to continue thin to an alternative and from here
in direction Maidopis to arrive to a green bar. 
DESCRIPTION. Part from the green bar posts some hundred meters before the Forest
hatchery 
of
Maidopis, following the same road is arrived to the Old Barracks to that
point left the principal road it is turned to the left and coasting along the
Barracks immediately is found the indication of the Path n°1. Following
the red stamps along the slope will be found to us after 40 's from the departure
to Arcu Su Crabiolu to this point skipping two deviations on the left
the wide one is taken excavated that it passes on the plateau her it crosses
each other toward left in thin descent to cross a carrareccia, from here turning
to the right it is arrived to Arcu De Buddui (25 's) where continuous
for Baccu Eranu following the white-red signs. After 15 skipped 's the
deviation on the left that introduces on the Baccu Eranu is continued
on the principal road that, coasting along to the left now to the right now
the I get back Sa Ceraxa, it brings us absorbed in the brushwood until
to a bifurcation (20 's) he continues to the right here and immediately after
a brook it is forded. You continuous for others 10 thin's to another bifurcation,
he diverts to the right also here and crossing a line in descent after 10 's
arrives
to excavates it that it goes to Arcu Sa Ruinedda; now turning to go ahead
up to the old ruin called Old Dispensation to the left (2 hs from the departure).
The return is on the same run of the going until to Arcu Su Crabiolu
(1h 20 's) here it is not diverted for the Path n°1 on the contrary he continues
on excavates it principal that in 15 's hands to Arcu Curadori where,
turning to the right, an evident cart-track interrupted by a green bar, goes
down steeply up to the Old Barracks and from them to the B.P. (25 's).
NOTICE. The red stamps, well visible and numerous, is go followed meticulously
for not taking any secondary deviations. The line from Arcu De Buddui
to the Old Dispensation to exclusion of the first piece is not marked.
FROM TO SEE. From Arcu Su Crabiolu he is seen the Perd'A Sub'E Equal
and the tops of the Seven Brothers (photo 1), in the descent until to Arcu
De Buddui panorama on it Costs Guilty (photo 2). After Arcu De Buddui
the run is untied along the Riu Ceraxa he knows and inside a wood of
ilex; crossing it in one rainy year as this the river gives interesting foreshortenings
and in some points small little ponds (photo 3). it Distributes her Old he is
constituted by the ruins of three constructions.
Photo and article edited by Alexander Cabiddu
