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My name is Carley Sparks and I’m a horse-o-holic.

Some people abuse alcohol or chemicals. My drug of choice is of the equine variety. I’ve been hooked on horses since my first terrifying gallop through the woods at Webb’s Holiday Acres Children’s Camp. I was 8. Not a day has gone my since that I haven’t ridden or thought about riding.

Like all addicts, I suffer for my addiction. Horses have been hard on my body, my marriage and, most notably, my career.  At 17, I took a job at The Gap instead of going to university. Six months in I traded that minimum wage sales position for a lower paying gig in a barn. Then, less than a year later, moved across the country for a working student position with Canadian show jumper Hugh Graham. For even less money.

I eventually gave up grooming and earned a university degree (it took 6 years instead of the usual 4 because I insisted on working in a barn throughout). Thanks to those efforts, I now make my living writing—usually, about horses—which pays at least $50 more a week than working in a barn. You might have read some of my work in the critically acclaimed* HorseCare magazine. Or in Horse Sport, or maybe The Ottawa Citizen. Read more...

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