Among cork plantations, basaltic rocks and burned pastures in the heart of Sardinia, you might see the typical little horses living in the Giara.  The Sardinian breeders call them "is achettas".  These little horses are afraid of people, eternal enemy of their freedom.  An age-long tradition has considered them as beasts of burden to be exploited and overworked.
A fight against overwhelming odds occurs punctually every year.
As a matter of fact, these little horses are not very welcome, commercially speaking as they don't represent any real economic wealth.  They are valuable for other reasons, being the genetic result of hard, prolonged burdens and bad nutrition and the confirmation of the illegitimate exploitation of these little horses by the local farmers and breeders.