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I ride my horse at competition level.

I've always loved horses. When I was younger, I competed in horse shows and did quite well.

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 rode horses since I was a kid.

For eight or 10 years, I got wrapped up in chasing records. Everything was a number. Didn't matter what I won, it was a number. Every horse I rode was a number.

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 was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world.

I was an expert horseman.

I represent a district in Nevada, a state that is home to more wild horses than all other states combined.

I've been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I'd like to think that of all of them, Big Ben - who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame - would still be competitive in the contemporary sport.