PATNA: All of 13 years, Patna's Satyam Anand
has won two silver medals in the recently-concluded The Great Ghaziabad
Horse Show '12, an equestrian championship in which horsemen from
across the country and abroad participated earlier this month.
Satyam won laurels for his second best scores in two categories of showjumping in the group of children. "I wish him bigger successes in future and will provide him all the facilities required to polish his skills," Satyam's mother said, beaming with bliss.
The stallion caught Satyam's fancy when his father Anand Kumar Singh, a police officer, got a posting in the BMP ( Bihar Military Police)-1 as its commandant. "I used to see photographs of my father riding horses. It was quite fascinating," he told TOI.
Thanks to his father, Satyam's training began in April last year under trainer Gopal Sharma. While in Patna, Satyam practices only at the weekend as the DPS-Patna's Class X student cannot bunk off school. He, however, makes full use of vacations which he usually spends at his maternal grandparents' house at Ara where the Mounted Military Police (MMP) is headquartered. "MMP sub-inspector Abdul Hasan has been kind enough to spare time to train me at the MMP grounds," he said.
With Satyam shining at the Ghaziabad show, Hasan is a proud man. "This boy is so good that he performed brilliantly in the very first competition in which he participated. If he is trained properly for a year, he can definitely make it big at the national and even international levels," he said.
Satyam is deft at jumping horse up to five feet. And to remain physically fit he works out on treadmill for an hour daily apart from doing other exercises. He is so passionate about horse-riding that he watches online videos on it and describes the "addiction" as "my correspondence course".
But Satyam would not make this sport his profession. "I will certainly hone my skills further but as a hobby only," he said and vowed to better his performances in upcoming competitions "to make my state proud".
Satyam won laurels for his second best scores in two categories of showjumping in the group of children. "I wish him bigger successes in future and will provide him all the facilities required to polish his skills," Satyam's mother said, beaming with bliss.
The stallion caught Satyam's fancy when his father Anand Kumar Singh, a police officer, got a posting in the BMP ( Bihar Military Police)-1 as its commandant. "I used to see photographs of my father riding horses. It was quite fascinating," he told TOI.
Thanks to his father, Satyam's training began in April last year under trainer Gopal Sharma. While in Patna, Satyam practices only at the weekend as the DPS-Patna's Class X student cannot bunk off school. He, however, makes full use of vacations which he usually spends at his maternal grandparents' house at Ara where the Mounted Military Police (MMP) is headquartered. "MMP sub-inspector Abdul Hasan has been kind enough to spare time to train me at the MMP grounds," he said.
With Satyam shining at the Ghaziabad show, Hasan is a proud man. "This boy is so good that he performed brilliantly in the very first competition in which he participated. If he is trained properly for a year, he can definitely make it big at the national and even international levels," he said.
Satyam is deft at jumping horse up to five feet. And to remain physically fit he works out on treadmill for an hour daily apart from doing other exercises. He is so passionate about horse-riding that he watches online videos on it and describes the "addiction" as "my correspondence course".
But Satyam would not make this sport his profession. "I will certainly hone my skills further but as a hobby only," he said and vowed to better his performances in upcoming competitions "to make my state proud".
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