'I Never Thought I'd Have The Horse Or The Ability': What It's Really Like Jumping In Your First Grand Prix

Two years ago, I was standing in the barn aisle with my trainer, Ivan Rakowsky, quizzically studying this horse relaxing in his stall. Ivan found Fantast van het Vinckenhof, known as Vince, as a six- coming seven-year-old, and he’s the first to admit that the Dutch gelding was extremely green and wilder than expected. He had all the scope and jump in the world, but we looked at each other worriedly when he got to our barn and couldn’t trot in a straight line. We were like, “Oh gosh, what did we do?” Little did we know that this horse would take me to my first grand prix.

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Article written by: Kristen Berian