My partner and I are Italians and she is a natural horsemanship/Parelli trainer and absolutely abhors the Palio because she can point to multiple instances of c

My partner and I are Italians and she is a natural horsemanship/Parelli trainer and absolutely abhors the Palio because she can point to multiple instances of cruelty to the animals and coercion. I myself am very wary of horses (bad fall when I was six, thirty years later I still refuse to get back in the saddle) but even I can now appreciate the difference between a relaxed, non-threatened horse and these poor creatures. I'm not an animal rights activist by any measure, but just as many people now question the corrida, I'm coming to the conclusion that is time to revise some traditions, such as this one.