Overcoming A Night-Mare! How Lewis Hamilton Beat His Allergy To Horses

Last Updated:October 17, 2025, 15:26 IST

The Brit who moved to Ferrari revealed that he was allergic to horses back in the day but overcame it through desensitization programme and medicines.

Lewis Hamilton. (X)

Seven-time Formula One World Champion, Lewis Hamilton, who got the opportunity to ride a horse for the first time ahead of the US Grand Prix.

The Brit who moved to Ferrari revealed that he was allergic to horses back in the day but overcame it through desensitization programme and medicines during a cover shoot with a horse for Time magazine to mark his arrival at Ferrari.

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“It would come over to me, and I’d spend time with it. But then I’d start walking home and notice my allergies start kicking off, and I’d struggle to breathe," he said.

“Yesterday, I did the shoot with a horse for Plus 44 (his lifestyle brand) and I was like ‘Can I ride it?’ I got on, and it was just … It was an amazing experience," explained the Briton, whose pet bulldog Roscoe died last month.

“Then the horse started moving, started to gallop, and … I didn’t know what to do. So I panicked a little bit, but it was beautiful.

“I’m really excited about this next kind of phase of my life, where I’m going to be around horses more and really get into riding. That’s my next thing."

Speaking to reporters at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas, the 40-year-old Briton recalled an early bond with a horse in a field near his home when he was a boy.

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Hamilton, who enjoyed an incredible stint with Mercedes before his arrival to Ferrari has had to adjust to the realities of the gird with the Prancing Horse and is still in quest to pick up his first win at the fabled Italian manufacturer.

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