Endurance Riding Quotes

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

I started looking into horse history books and came across the actual story of this half-breed endurance horseman and his painted mustang Hidalgo. I wasn't really sure if I was going to do the movie at that point.

Competing in show jumping is a school of life. And it's one of the few Olympic sports where men and women are equal.

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

Eventing is way too dangerous. People get killed every year doing cross-country.

I think some horses are meant to do... eventing or dressage. We have Western horses who canter around. I think it takes, especially at the level I'm at now, it takes a horse that wants to do it.

I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy.

There were something like 50 good, arduous climbs around Nice, solid inclines of ten miles or more. The trick was not to climb every once in awhile, but to climb repeatedly. I would do three different climbs in one day, over the course of a six- or seven-hour ride. A 12 mile climb took about an hour, so that tells you what my days were like.