Mortgage agent Adam Stapley feels most at home on the back of a horse
Having grown up on a farm, Adam Stapley sees nothing unusual in having been placed in the saddle at the tender age of 2, but the Toronto-area mortgage agent does admit that his teenage passion for steeplechase was a bit unusual. His obsession ran so deep that Stapley crossed the border to spend several months working with a trainer who specialized in steeplechasing before ultimately relocating down south for several years to further his training.
Since then, Stapley’s passion for riding has taken him around the world, including stints in Australia, Hong Kong and England, where he spent two years based in Newmarket, the birthplace of horse racing. Riding is still a part of Stapley’s daily life, thanks to his part-time gig exercising horses at a local racetrack in the mornings.
“Riding horses is what I love to do,” he says. “I love the speed and the ability to control so much power.”
