Samuele Poli Barberis was born and raised riding horse’s in La Spezia Italy. He began his horse training career 25 years ago learning from Tonino Achenza and showed his first horse competing in the Non-pro Cutting Futurity. He has been training cow horse’s ever since learning from a variety of people such as Markus Schopfer. Samuele and his wife Elisa along with their two children Gabriele and Edoardo train out of Samisa Ranch Sarzana, Italy.