Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe CLEVELAND, July 14 (UPI) -- A blind woman is now third in the nation for hunter-jumper horse competitions, a Cleveland newspaper reported Monday. Victoria Watters is legally blind and rides a mare named See For Yourself. Advertisement Together, they are big-league champions in the world of jumping and took two hunter-class titles at the Merrill Lynch Hunter Jumper Classic at the polo field at the Cleveland Metroparks. "I'm fine, except I'm blind as a bat and I have terrible balance," she told the Plain Dealer. Watters, 37, a former horse trader from Wellington, Fla., fell in love with horses as a first-grader growing up near Cincinnati. At the age of 14, doctors discovered a cancerous, golf-ball-sized brain tumor. Blood clots that developed after the surgery destroyed retinal nerves, leaving her blind in her right eye and with limited sight in her left. She also competes with other horses named Eyewitness, Eye Remember Rio, 20/20 and Out of Sight.
