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Musical
Freestyles
Sue Blinks, Kay Meredith & Tom Noone
Moderated by Janet Brown
Thursday 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. |
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Susan Blinks (NY)
qualified for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, by
winning the USET Dressage Championship in Loxahatchee, FL.
Blinks and Flim Flam combined for one of their best rides at the
Olympic Games in Sydney to help the U.S. earn its third
consecutive Olympic team bronze medal. She placed 8th
individually. In 1998, Blinks was a member of the fourth-place
USET squad at the World Equestrian Games in Rome, Italy, and
rode Flim Flam to an individual 12th place finish. |
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Later in the year, she
was named 1998 USOC Female Equestrian Athlete of the Year. As a
teen, Blinks trained with Marianne Ludwig. After graduating from
the University of Massachusetts, she trained with Walter
Christenson in Germany. Blinks then moved to New York and worked
briefly with Robert Dover. She also trained with Uwe
Schulten-Baumer for two years in Germany. Blinks is a USA
Equestrian (AHSA) “R” judge and teaches and trains out of
the Kundrun Farm in Mount Kisco, NY.
Susan Blinks shown here with Flim Flam, Aachen CHIO, 1999
Photo with permission, Bonnie Rombach |
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EquiDance™
Freestyle Awards
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Kay Meredith is
an "S" judge. Ms. Meredith is a former President
of the United States Dressage Federation, 1979 American Horse
Shows Association Horsewoman of the Year, a member of the United
Stated States Equestrian Team Gold Medal dressage team at the
1983 Pan-Am Games, and has won many prominent musical freestyles
competitions on the east coast and Midwest during the past
twenty years.
Kay was one of the first to ride freestyles in the US and
continues her winning tradition by winning the Region 1 Grand
Prix Freestyle Championship, Raleigh, North Carolina, 2001, on
Main Event Mangalam, a 10 year old, 16.2 gray Swedish Warmblood
gelding, sired by Amiral, 65.50%. Kay and Main Event were
also Reserve Champions, Grand Prix Open, with 64.467%
Kay is a trainer and much sought
after clinician. Kay judges Dressage un Ltd's exclusive EquiDance™
Freestyle Awards. |
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Viewpoints
from "C" by Kay Meredith & Michael Matson |
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Tom Noone (MA) was the U.S.
representative at the 2001 Dressage World Cup Final in Denmark
where he finished in tenth place. Noone was the top placing U.S.
rider at the 2000 United States League Finals held during the
Washington International Horse Show in October 2000 and thus
qualified to represent the United States in the 2001 World Cup
Final. Tom is a USDF Bronze, Silver, and Gold Medalist. He has
been riding since he was three years old and has a lifelong list
of dressage accomplishments, both national and regional, from
training level to Grand Prix on several mounts.
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In 1997, Noone and
Fresco earned first place in the Grand Prix and the Grand Prix
Freestyle at Dressage at Saratoga and Dressage at Devon. They
also won the WFDA East Coast Riders Cup.
Tom Noone & Fresco winning
the Connecticut Freestyle Championship, FEI Division, 2000 |
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