Mateo Gibelli

Riding SOLO
Age: 21
Weight: 83 kg
Height: 1.83 cm

Riding in my life started from day one. My father was always very passionate about
horses and along with my grandmother who’s responsible for the introduction of
horses into the family, they built a hobby for me that now I seem to have constructed
my life around it. So no matter what I do I always seem to find comfort where there’s
horses around.

I grew up riding Criollo horses in the farm for pleasure and to work cattle. Then for fun we would go to compete to eventing and raining events for criollos around Argentina but nothing to professional.

Horses have always been motivation that brings me back to my family so I would say that that’s why I like riding so much.

I always wanted to be part of a race like the pass of tears. I love the idea of long
endurance races specially in the mountains where true horsemanship is tested and
since this is my first time on an event like this, is more of a personal test to proof
myself that you can always be a better horseman. But I couldn’t do this by my own.

All of this is thanks to the people of estancia Aguay who were very kind to sponsor my place in the race to finally be able to participate with my horses in an event like this. So its really a dream come true. Specially now that I have extra motivation to not let somebody down and to be one of the few to represent Argentina .