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#goriding Grams of the Week
Another week of horse life, rounded up in you images. →
Katarina Stovall: ‘Does Access Equal Diversity In Equestrian Sports?’
“I believe that if the sport were more affordable, more people would participate, including more minorities.” Fifteen-year-old Katarina →
#goriding Grams of the Week
Another week of horse life, rounded up in your images. →
Briannah Kaitlyn McGee: ‘A Melting Pot of Gold’
“The amount of melanin in your skin does not determine your ability, especially in horseback riding.” Today we →
Lea Jih-Vieira: ‘Breaking Down Financial Barriers’
“There are countless times I turned down offers to play in tournaments because I could not afford it, →
Reader Photo Challenge: Magical Muzzles
Here are 17 smooch-worthy muzzles. →
Kimberly Kojima: ‘If There Is an Opportunity to Give Someone a Leg Up, One Must Do So’
“If there is an opportunity to give someone a proverbial leg up, one must do so, another value →
Helen Casteel: ‘This Has to Become Your Problem to Solve’
“There is this singular focus on how to make ‘them’ come to ‘us’. This is completely backwards. There →
Reader Photo Challenge: Braids, Braids & More Braids
Here are 11 picture perfect braids. →
#goriding Grams of the Week
Another week of horse life, rounded up in your images. →
Lyssette Williams: ‘BIPOC Riders Like Me are Watching and Waiting’
“It is not enough to commodify a moment in a movement – brands, publications, and organizations now need →
Christopher Ferralez: ‘Minorities Can Be a Positive and Powerful Voice Within Our Industry’
“I have now been riding competitively for roughly 10 years with Janet and Ryan Sassmannshausen of Kinvarra Farm →
Malachi Hinton: ‘A Catalytic Moment Within Our Community
“Every time that I ride past, present and future I step forth knowing that I am not just →
Mitike Mathews: ‘I Notice and Feel That I am Different’
“It is very discouraging to me being the only person of color at a show. If there were →
Katherine Un: ‘A More Open and Inviting Community Is Not Enough’
“Unfortunately, a more open and inviting community is not enough to ensure inclusivity and diversity in our sports. →
#goriding Grams of the Week
Another week of horse life, rounded up in your images. →
Muhammad Shahroze Rehman: ‘Why Don’t You Come Sit With the Eventing Team?’
“I believe that diversity and inclusion in equestrian sport provide us not just an opportunity to compete with →
Dana Bivens: ‘Inaction Is Silence’
“Riding was foreign to my parents and extended family, but my parents took me for lessons when I →
Leilani Jackson: A Minority Volunteer Perspective
“The news of the abuse from the trainers met me at the office. As I walked past the →
Julie Upshur: ‘The Reluctant Ambassador’
“I don’t get to be impatient or irritated. I may be the only Black equestrian these people see, →
Aki Joy Maruyama: ‘My Hope Is That Other Minorities Watching Me Compete Feel Inspired to Enter the Sport’
“I was conscious of being a minority presence. My sincere hope is that other minorities watching me compete would →
#goriding Grams of the Week
Another week of horse life, rounded up in your images. →
Jen Spencer: Meet the Creator of Instagram’s ‘Black Equestrians’
“This sport has people from all walks of life, different income brackets, different races, different sexual orientations and →
Jordyn Hale: ‘An Accepting Horse Community’
“It wasn’t until joining Pony Club and competing at rallies that I began to have fun riding again. →
Dawn Edgerton-Cameron: ‘Exposure, Opportunity, Perception and Reception’
“How do we take on the four-headed monster that exposure, opportunity, perception and reception represent and slay its →