Siena, 23 June 2024 – Also Massimo Columbu, aka Veleno II, he has a heart. «The control unit», as the jockey defines it, which works well. What is needed, she reiterates without mincing words, to run in the Square. Her heart beats for Remorex, the blond horse now gone down in history for the stubborn successes achieved shaken. “Horse and jockeys, if you want to participate in the Palio Anyone can do it, once you’re in there you don’t leave, where are you going”, he says melancholy while waiting for the visit to Remorex to show the animal he’s grown fond of. “It’s aged a bit so maybe it could fit back into the leveled lot? Horses over 14 years old, his age, run the Grand National which is not the Palio di Siena. However, if he wasn’t caught, I made a thousand bales of hay this year too. Eat anyway. Keep helping the colts for now, sure. As long as he’s well and can gallop, we’ll continue like this, otherwise I’ll leave him in the field and he can enjoy his retirement. I’ll keep Remorex,” says Columbu.
Massimo Columbu yesterday at Ceppo
“With half-breeds it doesn’t change your life, if you have to dream you do it with a pure. For them (turns towards the van with the ‘blond’, ed) there is the Palio. The fact is that when someone becomes good they immediately turn off your dream”, the jockey stings.
“If I would put it up myself? I have the control unit fine (points to the heart, ed.). Today it is fashionable to have a mental coach, it will mean that I will find a holy man. Then I go to the spa, do the gym, get everything done. You have to present yourself well. It will end up that they will put up umbrellas like at the Moto GP for the jockeys waiting for the start”, says Columbu. Which seems to claim professionals who are less like footballers but more old-fashioned ‘assassins’. “Jockeys – he concludes – in Siena they cannot be called, the Palio is a carousel”.
For which Columbu has an exaggerated passion so much “that I brought seven horses – he concludes – They could do the Palio Cassiox, Superchioma and also Bombolina”. In addition to the ‘blonde’, of course.
