Volume 13 Issue 1 » 83
An interior design for an Eric Lamaze
house in Wellington, Florida, by Tiffany
Foster. The pair do home design and décor
projects together, in addition to being
equestrian teammates. Original art by
Amber Denison. Furnishings by Restoration
Hardware and ABC Carpet & Home.
I was reading that interior design is
something you do as well?
I do enjoy that. I mainly do interior design
for Eric (Lamaze). It’s my own taste and
what I like, and they’ve all worked out so
far. My style is modern rustic where I use a
lot of reclaimed woods with a natural feel. I
just finished a house of Eric’s.
Do you wear anything meaningful
or any superstitions when you
compete?
I like to have something new on.
Whenever I wear anything new I feel
like that’s lucky. It gets really expensive
so I try to do that with classes that really
matter. (laughing) Nothing too big, so a
new pair of gloves or a new hairnet or a
new pair of socks. I save the big items like
shirts or pants for the big stuff. Otherwise
I’d be broke and my sponsors would be
upset with me. At the Olympics it’ll be
everything new. I need all the luck I can
get. (laughing)
What was it like at Pan Am? It
was a shaky first round. The team
needed a clean second round from
you, and you looked pretty cool
after you delivered on it.
We needed at least two clean rounds. Pan
Ams obviously meant a lot to us. They were
on home soil and our qualifications for Rio
were on the line, so it really mattered to us.
The first round we had a couple of unlucky
mistakes that we wouldn’t have normally
made. That’s when if you have such a great
synergy within your team, that you can
rise up. We came back really strong in the
second round and it all worked out. I think
the words are euphoric relief. (laughing)
Do you like team jumping over
the individual? Do you have a
preference?
I like the team. I just love our team so
much and I really love Canada and I love
everything that it stands for. We all go in
thinking that the team is the priority, and
if the individual pans out, then it pans out.
We would never sacrifice something out of
the team in order to get the individual.
RAPID FIRE
Manual or automatic
transmission?
Manual.
What do you drive?
A Land Rover Range Rover Sport
Supercharged in Florida and a
MINI John Cooper Works in
Europe. They’re really fast.
Your horse Hugo’s favourite
snack?
Mott’s Fruitsations. He gets that
whenever he’s a good boy. (laughing)
The thing that they least
expect about you?
I have no idea. You’ll have to ask
somebody else!
The most interesting thing in
my suitcase?
My Thera Cane massager to work
out the knots in my back.