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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One time they traded me for seven horses. Seven stunt horses.
I ride my horse at competition level.
I'm actually an equestrian, and I showed in the American Paint Horse Association and competed for top 20 in the nation.
I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.
Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.
As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone say he was going to win, and I guess that made an impression on me.
I rode horses since I was a kid.
In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. He's done everything for me and I owe him the world.
Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it's all on my shoulders and it didn't have anything to do with anybody else.
I'm bad with numbers. My husband is the keeper of the records.