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María Alejandra Ramelli

if I buy you a beautiful
pair of pink gold ska-
tes, and you skate ins-
tead of riding?’. I don’t
even know if pink gold
skates exist, but you
can imagine what my
answer was.

I still remember my
first riding lesson. The
pony I rode was called
Tintin. It was one of the
happiest days of my
life. I was just a three-
year-old girl, whose
grandfather was cons-
cious of her love for ani-
mals, and brought her
to discover this magical
universe. As I grew up,
my passion for horses
has grown up with me, filling my life with the best experiences
any horse rider can expect. It always amazes me how much of my
life is guided by my all-consuming love for horses. My first goal
in life was to talk my totally non-horsey parents into buying me a
horse, but I wouldn’t achieve this goal until age eleven. My new
horse arrived at the barn on the 1st of June 2011. I called him An-
gelo. I couldn’t believe my dream had finally come true.

My experience with Angelo was a very good one. He was a very experi-
enced and healthy horse. I did my first jumping competitions with him in
the pre-children’s category. However, not all my experiences with horses
have been good. When I moved up to the children’s category I had a very
bad experience with another horse that prevented me from competing
for a year. This horse belonged to my trainer, and used to be a very good
horse. He qualified with my trainer’s son to the Youth Olympic Games in

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