Damn he was good as a little kid!
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You are right, I think World Of Showjumping threw him under the bus printing that quote from the interview, he understands what money it takes to have him out there competing, between his fathers business in horses and the support from Fernhill he’s extremely fortunate. I think maybe he was trying to say you can get on in the sport with talent and hard work, this is true but rare these days because if you don’t have your own financial support system you’ll need someone else’s! So I’m afraid its a money game all the way, showjumpers are notorious fortune hunters because it’s such an expensive sport.
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Yes.
Kent also won two equitation finals as a junior, the USEF (then AHSA) Medal at Harrisburg and the Washington class.
Then went on to huge success in the jumper ring, including a team silver medal at the Rio Olympics, among many other big wins.
Publications need to stop doing this. Deliberately picking the juiciest tidbit from an entire article of words just because they know it will lead to a social media firestorm that brings visibility and clicks for them, and a whole lot of headaches for the person profiled.
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From my friend’s book, one of the best ones was his five day plan to get a girl’s attention. It involved five different scents of body spray across those five days. The authority with which his teenage self laid out his methodology was wild. 
Other choice quotes included “I think I know more about the flu than you do because I have it” (said to his doctor parent) and “it’s supposed to look that way; you just don’t get it” referring to some real bold spiked iced tips (when guys would bleach the top part of their hairstyle) that looked shellacked into place.
Now I’m just getting all nostalgic for the late 90s.
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Can we shout this louder for all to hear? Thank you 
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While that is a nice thought but look at how much more traction a media outlet gets for being messy.
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True.
Noelle Floyd probably got more traction from bumping up that one old post than they had gotten in the entire two years since it originally came out.
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Karl has an f-u response for people going after him.
For the “form follows function” he is missing the horse functions due to the riders flexibility in their form. Karl knows this and seems to be baiting.
I couldn’t do the leg thing if I tried! Ha. If I could have the upper half of Kent and the lower half of Beezie, that’s always my goal.
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