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114 FA L L 2 014 U N TAC K E D his prize from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who was president of the FEI at that time. Delia represented Argentina in five Olympic Games: 1956 in Stockholm, 1960 in Rome, 1964 in Tokyo, 1968 in Mexico City and 1972 in Munich. It was actually during the inaugural 1951 Pan American Games in Buenos Aires, for which the equestrian events were held at Club Hipico Argentino, that Delia made his team debut, earn- ing individual silver. Hugo Miguel Arrambide, one of the nation's best in the 1960s and '70s, was the first Argentine show jump- ing professional and won the national championship four times, competed in three Olympic Games and won 38 international grand prix. But Argen- tine riding is by no means limited to merely show jumping; Carlos Morato- rio, also a military man, took part in three Olympic Games (Rome, Tokyo, where he won individual silver, and Mexico City) and won the Land Rover Burghley CCI**** (England)—and the world championship title along with it—with Chalan in 1966. e CHA hosted the 1974 South American show jumping champion- ships, a competition honoring the fifth centennial of the discovery of the Americas. And in 1995, the Pan American Games returned once more. Today around 1,500 saddle horses are born every year in Argentina, and the country has a constant presence in the Olympic Games and in interconti- nental championships, thanks in large part to the foundation Club Hipico Argentino has given generations of horsemen and women. GLOBAL CULTURE in partnership with EQUESTRIO Magazine

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