 The Maremmano is the traditional mount of the Maremma cattle men, known as "butteri", and is also used for light draft work.Horses of this breed have often been used as cavalry mounts and today are used by Italian Mounted Police.They were amongst the protagonists of the last successful classical cavalry charge in history in August 1942 near Isbushensky on the Don river by a cavalry unit of the Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia ("Corpo di Spedizione Italiano in Russia", or CSIR) on the Eastern Front.