The debutant horse diadoro, led by a Giovanni Atzeni to the eleventh success in Siena, remained in command until he left the head

Riccardo Pratesi

3 July 2025 (modification at 22:07) – MILAN

The goose wins. The Palio di Siena of Provenzano, that of July 2025, gives the drapellone to the Contrada di Fontebranda, who conquers the career with the coupled Giovanni Atzeni, to the 11th success – the maximum among the jockeys in activity – and the debutant horse Diodoro. The goose starts in front of everyone and ends in front of everyone after the three laps in Piazza del Campo, never undermined by the nine rivals on the Tuscan tuff. Tittia conquers the Palio for the fourth time in the goose, who had won for the last time in August 2023 and now conquers success number 67 of his history, more than all rivals. This time in Siena in the race they have belonged to the spiral, the great disappointed, who has not conquered the Palio since 1999 and with such and which on paper the best horse boasted, as well as already winning, the truck of his bitter rival, another couple of opponents, hepies and porcupine, the hunter, the run -up party after five alignments and about 35 ‘of laborious “move”, panther, bruc and wild. He was Palio with the four green (like colors) in competition and won one of the four, precisely the goose. Dominating undisturbed.

He always wins him

Tittia is historically a great starter. It hasn’t been denied. With Mossiere Renato Bircolotti often finds the way to get out of the heips in front of the others and did it once more. Uncle Frat, the tartuca horse, already twice triumphant at the Palio, has made a mounted scene, penalized by the ninth position at the starting order, while Carburo, the jockey veteran of the snail – an unhappy choice in retrospect for a district that believed in success – was waged at the start and has never even been able to get closer to the goose. None of the other horses left from the tertion of the town hall had ever won the Palio di Siena and the experience made the difference. That of the jockey, however.

Postponement

It was a pole as obvious to the “therefore”, as suffered on the eve. It ran 24 hours late, in fact, because the rain of the early afternoon of July 2 caused the postponement. The third Palio in a row postponed to Siena, after the two of 2024, had not happened for 155 years, since 1870. Last year on 4 July then he won the wave, while on August 17th instead the she -wolf. This time he sings the goose. The most winning district of all time wins, the most winning jockey of the moment wins. Discounted, perhaps, but in Fontebranda, to be sure, they will not make the splashes.



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