PeterS (Peters)
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Username: Peters
Post Number: 580
Registered: 1-2003
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I posted this on another post you may not read. I thought it worthy of a separate post!
The story of the prancing horse is simple and fascinating. The horse was painted on the fuselage of the fighter plane flown by Francesco Baracca, a heroic Italian pilot who died on Mount Montello. He was the Italian ace of aces of the First World War.
In 1923, when he won the first Savio circuit,
which was run in Ravenna, Enzo met Count Enrico Baracca, the pilot's father, and subsequently his mother, Countess Paolina. One day she said to Enzo, "Ferrari, why don't you put my son's prancing horse on your cars,it would bring you luck." He so did. The horse was black and has remained so.
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