March 16, 2016 
If, as a 10-year-old horse enthusiast, you dreamt of running away to Hollywood, apprenticing with a horse stuntman, and making your living as a maverick of the silver screen, you’re not alone. Though the majority of us probably never made that dream a reality (yet), chances are your imaginary life included plenty of Roman riding tricks, airs above ground, and death-defying vaulting stunts. And, though most things are better in the mind’s eye than they are in real life, it turns out that being a horse stuntman is actually pretty close the fantasy, at least according to this new showreel video from Atkinson Action Horses.
You might remember this family-run, East Yorkshire-based group as the trainers of Ross Poldark’s horse Seamus, though they also supply horses and stuntwork for the period drama Peaky Blinders, jousting tournaments, and Cavalier Horsemanship demonstrations based on the dressage school of William Cavendish.
We’re guessing you don’t make the Atkinson team without your fair share of hard knocks—”falling down on the job” isn’t so much a metaphor as a way of life for these people—but it still looks pretty darn cool to us.
Maybe your 10-year-old self was right all along?
