Throughout Tuscany, and therefore throughout the Chianti, and more intensely so in the Chianti closer to Siena, the love for horses can be felt and seen. In the horse – breeding of the Berardenga, price thoroughbred stallions and select brood-mares are united In a marriage for money to bring potential champions to the turf into the world. There are numerous, well-managed riding schools where half-breeds, a fear old, quiet thoroughbreds, now physically on the wane, and several Maremmani no longer at the peak of their physical vigor, ride with ‘neophytes’ on the saddle. But the presence of horses here and there in the countryside reveals that horse-riding is a common activity. Indeed, especially at week-ends, it is not difficult to come across small groups of people riding along one side of a road in the open countryside for a healthy gallop.
There is another very British sport too, though it has not caught on as a sport for the masses: golf. The club, ball, good arms, a lot of experience, a lot of self-control and a desire to walk over lawns as far as the eye can see. The Golf dell’Ugollno which we find at the very beginning of the Via Chiantigiana, as soon as we have left behind the last houses of Grassina and when the Chianti begins to appear with the first hills, is an appreciated structure which is now part of the Italian history of this ritual sport, having been opened a long time ago, in 1935. A large expanse of green hills scattered between Florence and the Florentine Chianti for the pleasure of all golf players.
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See also:

The Markets of Chianti, Meeting a Stranger, Tuscan Antique Furniture, Portrait of a Land, Chianti by Bike, Chianti Artists, Chianti at The Bar, Chianti Theatrical Festival, Music and Culture in The Vineyards, Villa Le Barone, The Art of Hospitality at Podere Terreno, The Legendary Millemiglia in Chianti

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