AUSTIN, Texas :Ferrari Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton said horses were his "next thing" after riding one for the first time ahead of the U.S. Grand Prix in Texas.

The seven-times world champion, who races with the Italian team's famed black stallion logo on his car and is used to handling plenty of horsepower, revealed he was allergic to horses as a boy but had overcome it with treatment.

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.

"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.

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