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From promising cyclist to showjumper: “After 38 kilometers of running, I decided: cycling or horses, and I chose the horses”

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“It took me 38 kilometers of running to decide what I wanted to do,” says 20-year-old showjumper Bart Jay Junior Vandecasteele. A half marathon plus another fifteen kilometers, that’s how long it took him to figure out whether his future would lie in cycling or in equestrian sport. The saddle won.

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