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#goriding Grams of the Week

Another week of horse life, rounded up in your images.

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#goriding Grams of the Week

Another week of horse life, rounded up in your images.

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#goriding Grams of the Week

Another week of horse life, rounded up in your images.

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#goriding Grams of the Week

Another week of horse life, rounded up in you images.

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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

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#goriding Grams of the Week

Another week of horse life, rounded up in your images.

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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#goriding Grams of the Week

Another week of horse life, rounded up in your images.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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#goriding Grams of the Week

Another week of horse life, rounded up in your images.

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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

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Dana Bivens: ‘Inaction Is Silence’

“Riding was foreign to my parents and extended family, but my parents took me for lessons when I

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Leilani Jackson: A Minority Volunteer Perspective

“The news of the abuse from the trainers met me at the office. As I walked past the

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Julie Upshur: ‘The Reluctant Ambassador’

“I don’t get to be impatient or irritated. I may be the only Black equestrian these people see,

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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

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#goriding Grams of the Week

Another week of horse life, rounded up in your images.

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