You can have the most amazing horse in the world and not be able to ride it, so it has to be a good match for sure.
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If you don't have good horses, it's very tough to win.
The best riders in the world with the best horses make it look so elegant and graceful. When you watch it done well, it looks so easy that it's difficult for the public to understand how hard this really is.
I read a statistic that in horse racing, the favourite only wins 12 per cent of their races. I'm not comparing myself to a horse or saying I'm the favourite - although my sister would say I can nag an awful lot - but nothing is guaranteed in sport. Anyone can step up and take what you perceive to be your place in the final.
A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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.
When you get on a good horse, you just know. They are powerful, they stop quickly, they can turn in both directions, and they are fast.
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
Without good horses, you are nothing. In polo, it's 70 per cent horse, 30 per cent rider. And I have the best horses.
If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.