Word: pietrino
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...Siena town wards (which bear such symbolic names as Giraffe, Dragon, Unicorn and Wave), partisan passions begin to rise well before race day. This year Unicorn hired away (for a rumored 900,000 lire) the Giraffe's jockey, a movie stunt rider and a two-time winner named Pietrino. Pietrino, a Polio veteran much in demand, had been known to change colors before...
...race time, with 40,000 onlookers crammed around the fan-shaped course in the town square, order had been pretty much restored. The horses were led into neighboring chapels for special blessings, and the jockeys put on their iron helmets and lined up for the start. Jockey Pietrino, as it turned out, needed all the protection he could carry...
...thirds of the way around the three-lap course, right in front of the medieval town hall, it happened that Pietrino came shoulder-to-shoulder with the rider for a ward he had once deserted. Pietrino suddenly found himself clamped against the inside rail, was knocked off his horse and carried away with a broken ankle...
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