60 Seconds With Carla Kattouah


By HT
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COUNTRY: LEBANON
DATE OF BIRTH: JULY 6 1981
STAR SIGN: GEMINI
PROFESSION: HORSEBACK RIDING TRAINER & CLUB MANAGER

What is your best achievement?

Opening my own equestrian school in Lebanon in 2006 and delivering the French “Galop” diplomas.

Who is your favourite athlete?

Pascal Morvillers, my mentor and Jean Teulere (World Eventing Champions), without forgetting ENE Saumur trainers, to whom I owe my success.

Do you keep any pets?

Aside of my five-year-old horse Titanium, a cat called Cosmo.

What is your favourite movie?

“Planet Earth”.

Who is your ideal celebrity?

David Attenborough.

What is your favourite gadget?

My Iphone!

What is your favourite music record?

Red-Riding Hood soundtrack.

What is your second favourite sport?

Snowboarding.

Do you like to cook?

I like to, but I’m not that good.

What is your strength and what is your weakness?

Strength: highly adaptable. Weakness: my tolerance threshold is a bit too high.

What makes you happy and what makes you sad?

Happy: galloping towards a challenging jump on my favourite horse. Sad: when one of my horses is sick or injured.

To your close friends & family, you are known to be?

Fun & active.

If you had the power to change something, what would you change?

I would erase illiteracy.

If there is something about Carla that you would like to change, what would that be?

To eat less chocolate!

Do you support any charitable organisations?

Mainly the Red Cross, though not as much as I would love to.

Do you think there is any other question we should have asked but did not?

Yes! You should have asked if I spend hours talking to my horses! (The answer is no!) HT

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