Emilio Solanet Gassiebayle (28 April 1887 – 7 July 1979) was an Argentine veterinarian, agricultural producer and politician. He was a full member of the National Academy of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine of Argentina and a founding member of the Argentine Association of Criollo Horse Breeders.
Biography Solanet was born on 28 April 1887 in Ayacucho, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
In 1908, he graduated as a veterinarian from the Instituto Superior de Agronomía y Veterinaria of the University of Buenos Aires.
He owned the Criollo horses Gato and Mancha, which in 1925 began a journey from Buenos Aires to New York City, led by Swiss adventurer Aimé Tschiffely.
Solanet was active in the Radical Civic Union in Ayacucho. He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Buenos Aires Province from 1924 to 1930 and was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in 1930 and again in 1946. He died on 7 July 1979, aged 92.
In 2019, a street in Ayacucho was named after him.
Selected works Solanet, Emilio (1928). Las capas de los yeguarizos y vacunos en la República Argentina: Sinonimia. Definición y divisiones. University of Buenos Aires. Solanet, Emilio (1946). Tratado de hipotecnia: Principales razas caballares, su mejora y explotación. Ediciones Morata. Solanet, Emilio (1955). Pelajes criollos. Editorial Kraft.
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