Photographer: Sasha Arutyunova for Bloomberg Businessweek
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Jasper is ignoring me.
I’m standing in the center of a riding ring with a whip in one outstretched hand, trying to tell a horse what to do from 20 feet away. The whip will never touch him: The point is to use a sort of telepathy with Jasper, to signal with my body language that he gallop, walk, or turn around. But instead of heeding my silent commands, the horse prances about the perimeter like a kid past his bedtime. “Make a wall of energy behind him,” urges my instructor, Jenna. I aim the whip as if it’s a magic wand, trying to channel my intentions through it but cursing under my breath.