Q What is your FEI Eventing World Championship and CCIO4*-S Aachen partner, Off The Record, like to ride and train?
WC I got him as a 4-year-old. He was a very talented horse, but he was hard to make music with initially. He was opinionated and not in the nicest of ways. But as we grew up together and I got to know him more, we developed a better understanding of one another. Where he was presenting himself as being a little difficult, he was almost just trying too hard. It took a while for me to see that. Once I did, that’s when we started to really gel as a partnership.
He’s not amongst the most talented horses in the world, but he just has an incredible drive and amount of effort that he puts out. He’s a real fighter. We’ve tried to nurture that. He’s 14 this year, but I feel like the best might still be in front of him. He seems to be enjoying his work and carrying himself like he knows about some of the things that he’s done, and it’s very cool.
Q You talked about Off The Record being a bit challenging in his younger days. How so?
WC He would
