Coventry Telegraph
Publication: Coventry Telegraph
Date: August 2020
Reece McCook has launched a campaign called Ride Out Racism and his dream is to open a riding school in the heart of the city
A young Coventry rider who suffered racial abuse has launched a campaign encouraging greater diversity in equestrian sport.
Reece McCook, 18, started riding after seeing Shetland ponies as a child and becoming fascinated. He began riding lessons and now, has ambitions to compete at Badminton Horse Trials.
But on a working pupil placement Reece told how he faced racist insults. At another yard he was refused a key for the tack room because the woman who ran it assumed he was a thief.
