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“I fail a lot. My most embarrassing moment was when I was doing the pony hunters. I had a green pony that did not get lead changes. There was absolutely nothing you could do. You just had to land it over the jump. I was at the Garden State Horse Show when I was about 14 or 15. The pony ring was a roped off section of a large ring. The rest of that large ring the junior hunter ring.
I was going around the diagonal line, and tried desperately to get him to do a lead change. But he tucked his head down and bucked. Before I knew it, he jumped over the rope and into the other ring. I pulled up, got myself together and looked around to realize what had happened. There was a look of pure panic on my face. I didn’t know what to do.
Unfortunately at the point, the junior hunters were all jogging. At this age, they were all my idols. I looked up to these junior hunter riders. I was never more embarrassed. The in-gate was of course on the opposite end of where I had jumped in. They had to hold up the jog while all the teenage hunters stood there gazing at me. I had to go all the way past each one of them, and to the in-gate, where every top New York trainer was staring at me with their mouth open.
At that moment, I thought I’d never recover. Now I can’t stop laughing. What I learned was, one day I’ll look back on these ‘most embarrassing moments’ and just laugh.”
- Georgina Bloomberg
American grand prix show jumper
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