Alex Granato: ...the commitment it takes to be a top athlete

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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We are so excited to welcome Alex Granato to the show as part of our partnership with the Palm Beach Masters Series. Alex is a professional show jumper who competes for the United States and has won more than 50 grand prix events. His top horse, Carlchen W, was just named US Equestrian Horse of the Week and he is planning to make it to the World Cup Finals this spring and hopefully the Olympic short list for the games this summer. On top of that, he is an amazing person with a huge heart, rescuing miniature horses in need through The Peeps Foundation, which he runs with his partner, Josh Dolan.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black. And I'm Laura Owens. We are so excited to welcome
0:17.7	Alex Granato to the show as part of our Palm Beach Masters series. Alex is a
0:23.3	professional show jumper who competes for the United States and has won more than 50 Grand Prix.
0:29.5	His top horse, Carl Chin W, was just named U.S. Equestrian Horse of the Week, and he's planning
0:35.1	to make it to the World Cup finals this spring and then hopefully the Olympic shortlist for the games this summer. And on top of the Week, and he's planning to make it to the World Cup finals this spring, and then hopefully the Olympic shortlist for the games this summer. And on top of that,
0:42.1	he is an amazing person with a huge heart, rescuing miniature horses in need through the Peeps Foundation,
0:49.1	which he runs with his partner, Josh Dolan. We had a great visit recently with Alex at his beautiful farm in Florida.
0:56.8	Alex, tell us a little bit about how you got into riding.
1:01.1	I just always had a big passion for horses.
1:03.5	I didn't come from a really horse-oriented family.
1:06.8	My mom did Western horses a little bit when I was a very young kid.
1:11.6	I was three, four.
1:13.4	And then because of an injury to her hand got completely out of horses.
1:17.9	But I was always interested in it, cartoons, Disney movies.
1:22.1	So just because I had a draw towards it, for my ninth birthday,
1:25.6	she got my sister and myself English lessons at just a local
1:29.9	beginner barn and it that was it for me I did some other sports as a kid uh soccer a little bit of
1:38.7	baseball church basketball but horses was just always where it was at. So from my first lesson, that was the...
1:45.0	And you have kind of a different way of coming to the top than a lot of young riders, too.
1:50.0	You didn't have as many opportunities as a lot of people have.
1:53.0	Can you talk to us about that?
1:55.0	Yeah, you know, growing up in Salt Lake City, there was really just a summer circuit for showing.
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