We are nuts... We ride and bond with 1000 pound animals that could kill us at any moment, learn with them, teach them, care for them, and compete with them. Honestly, I DON’T know why I love this so much or why every square foot of my room has horse stuff on it. Oh wait, I do... It’s my passion, I love horses...…

I'm a national champion, I got fourth in a world championship, and I'm not even close to being wealthy. Equestrians aren't always people with money, sometimes they are people who work their butt off.

No, we are called horse people.. And for the record there are at least 7 million dedicated equestrians in the United States alone, not 97,000 in the world. It’s estimated, including riders who are currently learning the basics and just taking weekly lessons, that there are 350,000,000 equestrians and horse people on…