Clare Balding Quotes

I grew up in a place where a lot of my friends had horses, so I grew up riding. But I'm not an expert.

I wanted to be a jockey.

I gallop and jump and ride young horses with intense pleasure.

You know yourself, once you've had the excitement of riding thoroughbreds, it's not very interesting riding anything else. But I still love horses; I just don't have one any more.

I've always ridden horses.

I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine.

Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.

My mom grew up with horses, and when I turned 14, 15, she's like, 'Do you want to take a riding lesson?' I thought, 'Oh, gross, dirty.' She was like, 'Okay.' And then I did, and now I'm the one cleaning those damn stalls out. You can't get me away from the barn now. It shocks even me.

I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase.

I loved horses and horse books as a child.

I love the freedom you feel on horseback, and enjoy the discipline of competition.

I love horses. There's something practical and mystical about them.

I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives.

I try to find some time for my horses. I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride the horses. So, it was a big - it has been a big passion for me.

Some of my biggest friends are big-time horse owners.

At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn't much of a future in it.

I grew up riding horses since I was eight. I rode English style and competed every weekend. I had two horses, Scout and Camille, and they were my babies. It taught me a lot about responsibility and commitment. I hope horses will always be in my life.

I've always enjoyed being on a horse.

I was an expert horseman.

I've had a passion for horses since I was very young - I used to sit on the floor in front of the races on television and pretend to be a jockey - and I first began reading the racing form on the set of 'The Partridge Family.'

I started to ride when I was very young, and it's a sport I have practised for a very long time.

I'm not a great horse person, but I love horses, and I love all of it. The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them.

I've been riding since I was maybe three or four. Ponies at first, and then I've really always been doing it since.

If I could do anything, I'd ride horses all day.

I grew up riding. From the time I was nineteen years old to the time I was twenty five I exercised race horses.