Since then, she developed Ripline, another American-bred Danish Warmblood, to CDI small tour. Heather’s last CDI Big Tour competition before 2019 was on Paragon in Wellington in March, 2015. The following year, the duo was selected as reserve for the U.S. Paragon, the American-bred Danish Warmblood gelding that she had trained from a youngster, became her top international mount and in 2011 won team gold and individual silver at the Pan Ams in Guadelajara, Mexico. Heather Blitz and Paragon in the 201 Pan American Games. She lived in Europe and competed her Otto, a Danish Warmblood gelding, that she sold for Todd Flettrich to compete on the American team at the 2010 Lexington World Games. Heather has extensive international competition experience. Olympic Committee although the nation’s team silver medal performance at the Tryon World Equestrian Games already earned a start in Tokyo. The Pan Ams are important for the United States to qualify for funding from the U.S. Lima, Peru will host the Pan Am Games, continental championships staged once every four years and a qualifier for the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020. “Feeling strong for this year,” said Heather who trains in Loxahatchee, neighboring Wellington.
Heather plans to start Quatero, a Danish Warmblood gelding that will be 10 years old next week, at Intermediate 2 and then move up to Grand Prix following a year of CDI small tour competitions over 2017/2018 in which the pair posted 10 victories in 12 starts in Wellington and Tryon, North Carolina. Catherine Haddad-Staller had logged six starts on the horse in Europe in the fall of 2017, including a victory and five other top five placings. Heather took over the ride on Semper Fi, owned by Rowan O’Riley, earlier this year and competed in a couple of national Grand Prix, one score of 75 per cent and another of 71.520 per cent. Semper Fidelis, an Oldenburg mare that will be 13 years old in a week’s time, will be competed by Heather in the Adequan Global Dressage Festival winter-long lineup of seven CDIs in Wellington, Florida beginning Jan. Heather Blitz will return to Big Tour competition next month for the first time in almost four years, likely with two Grand Prix mounts to compete for a place on the United States team for the Pan American Games next summer.Īnd the 2012 Olympic team reserve and 2011 Pan Am team gold and individual silver medal rider who turns 50 years old on Christmas Day has a growing lineup of young horses to develop for the future, including the newly acquired licensed coming four-year-old Danish stallion Shaolin.
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