Laura Kraut
IN the midst of a crazy, virus-plagued year, Laura Kraut is working toward making the US showjumping team for her fifth Olympics.
“It’s the strangest thing. We’re used to being such planners and organisers and now we can’t plan anything,” says Laura, referring to Covid-19 and EHV-1.
The 55-year-old rider’s situation was complicated by a fall in February, when she broke her collarbone.
“It’s been a bummer,” says Laura, who was out of the action from midway through the Winter Equestrian Festival in Florida, leaving her 41st in the Longines rankings.
That was on top of an accident last year at a Dutch show, where she broke her nose and her horse stepped on her Charles Owen helmet. Happily, it protected her head and has been seen in advertisements with the horrific gash it took for its wearer. That time, she only missed three weeks of competition; Laura is someone who perseveres.
THIS all-around horsewoman was never pampered growing up, when riding was only 10% of what she did with horses.
“We groomed them, iced their
