Bruno started to ride on the small family farm where he spent his holidays and rode Western style. He learned to jump on his own and his talent was instantly noticed by the instructor at the stables where he had started to ride. Very close to his cousinVincenzo (also an Olympic rider), Bruno says that when they were very young they would travel by train to go and watch the Coppa degli Assi in Palermo, trying to arrive even before the grooms, so as not to miss even the smallest detail of everything they would see later. They could not believe what they heard when Bruno’s mother told then she had been to Piazza di Siena and watched the brothers Piero and Raimondo d’Inzeo and Graziano Mancinelli, among the greatest riders in history and absolute heroes in the eyes of the two boys….