About us

I started to raise horses in 1973, when. I was no more than a child our farm manager, at that time, Fiorenzo Bettini who was a truly i wanderful person helped me in those very early days when. I first started to work whit haflinger horses soon after that thanks to the very special friendship with Doctor Berner and Primaldo Ballerini. I began to breed my first Quarter horses.

The breeding programme at Il Terraio is essentially based on the cross between our stallion Sir Jac Frost and selected mares that have already proven to be valid brood mares. Each one of them has in fact already been crossed with Sir Jac Frost and the results to date are excellent reining prospects.Sir Jac Frost, by Hollywood Jac 86 and out of Majestic Memory, was born to Sally Brown at Fox Medows Farm, in Maple Plain, Minnesota. First ridden in competition by Brian Welman (then under the ownership of the Wood family) the stallion was then taken on by Tim McQuay.

Upon arrival in Italy he was shown in 1991 and 1992 by Marco Manzi in all the major Italian and European open events.Sir Jac Frost also was chosen 3 times to represent the Italian Reining Team in international championships – in 1990 at the St Paul Derby, in Portogruaro in 1991 and at the American Championships in Germany in 1992. He was Individual Champion in 1991 and 1992 Reserve Champion. Recently we took the decision within our breeding programme to start to keep selected mares that have proven to be good competition subjects with a view to using them in the future as brood mares to a new stallion.

We were among the first pioneer in the world of reining in Italy

In 1989 and 1990 we rapresented Italy in the KLM International Cup at St paul Derby in Minnesota. In 1989 we were 3rd behind the United States and Canada.