{"id":11335,"date":"2025-07-30T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cavalliecavalieri.soononline.dev\/2025\/07\/30\/interview-with-davide-vitale\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:14:00","slug":"interview-with-davide-vitale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cavalliecavalieri.com\/en\/2025\/07\/30\/interview-with-davide-vitale\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERVIEW WITH DAVIDE VITALE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:18px\">by Susanna Cottica<\/p><div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div><p style=\"font-size:18px\">Davide Vitale, nineteen years old on the 28th of July, was the exiting new entry at this year\u2019s Piazza di Siena, confirming his talent with a solid performance. The youngest of the 74 athletes competing at CSIO, Davide and his own Earl Gray have definitely made a mark by obtaining an excellent fourth place in the small Grand Prix on the Saturday.<br\/>This result adds even greater value to the young rider from Biella\u2019s Italian young rider championship result, achieved with Earl Gray at the Arezzo Equestrian Centre last October.<\/p><p style=\"font-size:18px\">Davide Vitale, nineteen years old on the 28th of July, was the exiting new entry at this year\u2019s Piazza di Siena, confirming his talent with a solid performance. The youngest of the 74 athletes competing at CSIO, Davide and his own Earl Gray have definitely made a mark by obtaining an excellent fourth place in the small Grand Prix on the Saturday.<br\/>This result adds even greater value to the young rider from Biella\u2019s Italian young rider championship result, achieved with Earl Gray at the Arezzo Equestrian Centre last October.<\/p><div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div><p style=\"font-size:18px\">\u00abWith this horse I managed to have an excellent feeling, a beautiful connection. Earl Gray is a little particular, very intelligent and teaches me so much \u2013 Davide tells us \u2013 all of this has allowed us to get these results.<br\/><br\/>Together we enter the ring relaxed, with a free mind, and we have fun. I have owned Earl Gray for about a year and a half. Before I purchased him, he was ridden by a girl who had taken him on to jump 120\/130, but was struggling to ride him.<br\/><br\/>He had never jumped a bigger class before he moved into my stables. Since we started competing together we took it slowly, leading us to our biggest result today in Rome.\u00bb<br\/>Davide comes from an equestrian family. His father, Oliver Vitale, and his mother, Francesca Sola are both riders. Davide is based at the family yard. \u00abI have a small riding school at our family home, in Biella, where I have about ten horses in work.<br\/><br\/>My trainer is Riccardo Pisani. Sometimes I take my horses to his place to train, other times he comes to mine, and he also supports me at competitions. In addition to Earl Gray I have another horse, Lester, that I rode at the Junior Europeans in Gorla, as well as a good group of young horses that I am bringing on for the future.<br\/><br\/>I have recently also started breeding\u2026\u00bb<br\/>The feeling and simplicity with which Davide and Earl Gray have faced the small Grand Prix in Rome, are an example of that good horse riding, that we would always like to see:<br\/>\u00abWith Earl Gray I can ride the way that I like most, a light horse riding, with the horse cantering forward, in harmony and remaining relaxed.<br\/><br\/>Each horse has his own characteristics, and I try to adapt to them all, but with all of them I try to maintain the same principles, this horse riding I like. My horses get turned out regularly to maintain their happiness and to clear their mind after competitions.<br\/><br\/>I feel this is a must for their well-being, for their mental and physical health. In the meantime, I try to stay focused on my next goal, the Young Rider European Championships in Riesenbeck, in Germany, where I hope I will be part of the team.<br\/><br\/>At the same time, I am thinking of the transition to the Senior level, a big step for myself and for my horses\u00bb.<br\/><br\/>For the young Italian rider, the moment of the transition to Senior level is at the door, where everything certainly becomes more difficult. But with this bright start, we have high hopes for his future\u2026.<\/p><div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Susanna Cottica Davide Vitale, nineteen years old on the 28th of July, was the exiting new entry at this year\u2019s Piazza di Siena, confirming his talent with a solid performance. 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