3471194 The Start of the Race of the Riderless Horses, 1820 (oil on canvas) by Vernet, Emile Jean Horace (1789-1863); 46x54 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: Races of riderless horses along the Via del Corso were a highlight of Rome??? Carnival, held each February before Lent. Here grooms struggle to restrain the Barbary coast horses from Africa before the start of the race?a mossa?n the Piazza del Popolo).