I didn’t know how much of a passion riding would become for me when I took my first lesson a little less than five years ago at the age of 30. All I thought of at the time was that it would be cool to learn ride horses after announcing them in races for more than half my life.
I now know that the phrase “learning to ride” is about as open-ended as “learning to throw a ball.” Sure, but what type of ball and what type of sport? Because my trainer, and now broadcast partner and fiancé, Ashley Gubich, is an eventer and specializes in working with retired racehorses, “learning to ride” translated to eventing on off-track Thoroughbreds (OTTBs). I now know that’s like learning to swim by jumping straight into the deep end.
