I'm actually an equestrian, and I showed in the American Paint Horse Association and competed for top 20 in the nation.
I've always loved horses.
My first ambition was to be a show jumper. I did a bit of dressage as part of it, and the dressage trainer saw me and said, 'Why are you wasting your time with the other stuff? You should be concentrating on this.'
I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine.
Horses are the brand value of 'Wertheimer Freres.'
I could hang with horses all day.
My favorite horse was Zenyatta. She got me hooked.
I ride horses, I love horses, I've owned horses.
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 got to a point where I was doing county-level shows, but it was dressage that I really loved where, effectively, the horses are dancing. At one point, I was a groom for Hannah Esberger, who has competed for Great Britain and has seven national championship titles.
Yes, I've just bought a new horse, named Jedi.
I was very successful at three-day events, point-to-points, Pony Club, and gymkhana. But then I went to college, and because I had really good horses, they weren't going to be left in the field, so they were sold.
I remember some people after the Olympics that had no idea about horses would ask, 'Do you do that with the horse, or does the horse do it by itself?' I think the fact that you can make it look like you are doing nothing is a real talent. And it is such a massive reward at the end of it.
Guys want a 500 horsepower car. I'd rather have one horsepower - in a horse. That's macho. You go to pick up your date and you show up on a horse.
I gallop and jump and ride young horses with intense pleasure.
So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.
I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
I wouldn't mind doing a film revolving around horses, but I wouldn't dilute my equity just sitting on one.
I grew up riding. From the time I was nineteen years old to the time I was twenty five I exercised race horses.
Yeah, I'd been around horses most of my life.
I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling.
I started as a working pupil in a yard, mucking out and doing all the duties... and I just never gave up on my dream.
I've been riding since I was maybe three or four. Ponies at first, and then I've really always been doing it since.
Some of my biggest friends are big-time horse owners.
I love horse-riding - I have three back home in the U.K.
