Italian Luca Moneta is one of the world’s leading show jumpers but has been labeled by his peers “The Carrot Man” for his novel approach to training horses.
Last year he won the “Puissance” event at the prestigious Olympia Horse Show feeding his horse Quova de Vains a carrot after every successful jump.
And this year, he will return to the London event, which gets under way on December 16, in a bid to defend his title with the same methods he’s honed in recent years.
Of his alternative approach, Moneta admits the reaction was mixed: “When you want to change something and you’re too far from what they’re doing you make people scared.
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For him, it is simple horse play with or without the results in competition.
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