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CORINNE RICARD “When Talking of Horses, Passion is Essential” The French player and breeder welcomed us at Murus Sanctus, her new stables in the district of General Rodríguez, and showed us how work is done in her organization during the polo season. She also told us about her relationship with horses and about her first steps in the world of Polo. By Federico Levy “How did your relationship with horses begin?” “I started very young, when I was six years old and with horse-jumping mostly. It’s really a sport that’s quite different from polo, but horses are always there. And the quality and spirit of the horse is always the same. To me, any sport that involves an animal implies a lot of passion and patience.” “And when did polo come up?” “About 12 years ago when I began to watch polo from afar because I kept my horses at a place where polo was played, and afterwards when I stopped riding because my children were being born, I was married… and 20 years later I went back to watching polo but by then I had begun to think that it was a very interesting sport.” 224 “The nice thing about Polo is that it’s not only the game itself but the daily routine at the stables, don’t you think?” “Yes, jumping is a very solitary sport. You have one, two or as many as three horses. And horse care is much more artificial than in polo. To me polo brings you more into contact with a natural lifestyle than with jumping, and being four, and playing against another four, there is more movement; more of an atmosphere, and there are also many Argentines, and Argentines add life to the sport which is much more Latin, more fun and more entertaining.” “When does the idea of horse-breeding appear in your life?” “When one gets older one is more observant, and I