This article first appeared in the August 2021 digital edition of Equestrian Life. To see what’s in the current issue, click here.

Madonna was in her 40s when she first started to really ride.

Madonna: Mad on horses

By Bernard Bale

What? Madonna – 63? Surely not? Yes indeed, the first lady of pop music turns 63 this month, but she doesn’t care in the slightest and will still go on singing and teasing for many more years to come. And she plans to go on riding horses until she gets it right. As far as she is concerned, in the saddle she is still Like a Virgin.

Defiantly, Madonna believes that age has nothing to do with personality or performance and she plans to go on entertaining us and living life to the full for as long as possible.

“I don’t think about age or years,” she says. “What is a birthday? Just another day for some fun and nice things and the next day everything goes back to normal. There are moments when I can’t believe I’m as old as I am but I am feeling good physically, perhaps even better than I did, say, 10 years ago, so life goes on.”

What has that to do with horses? Well, despite breaking more bones than promises, Madonna just loves horses and riding and cannot understand why she did not get involved much earlier in life…

Read the full article in the August 2021 issue of Equestrian Life magazine here.