Danielle Goldstein is a native New Yorker who grew up on the Upper East Side in Manhattan in New York City.

[2][1] She attended Duke University, where Goldstein earned a BA in global economies and development, and played competitive tennis.

[5] She also has a unique riding clothing style, in that she wears midriff-bearing sports bras and yoga pants instead of the traditional jodhpurs.

[6] In 2013, she represented Israel in the ECCO FEI European Show Jumping Championships, in Herning, Denmark, having qualified by finishing 8th in June 2013 in the Outdoor Gelderland/Arnhem Grand Prix 3* in Holland.

[7][19][18] In July 2017 Goldstein won the Cascais-Estoril, Portugal Longines Global Champions Tour (LGCT) #9 Grand Prix.

[21] That month she won the $391,000 Palm Beach Equine Clinic Grand Prix CSI5* at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, Florida.