Tag: FEI Para Dressage

US athletes win two more golds and a bronze on the final triumphant day of the 2024 Paris Paralympics

By Kim MacMillan: After a rest day, Team USA gears up to go for gold in team para-dressage medal competition

By Kim MacMillan: Promising new partnership is qualified for their grade’s freestyle final

By Kim MacMillan; Photos by Sarah E. Miller/MacMillan Photography: Rebecca Hart’s first Paralympic individual medal is Grade III gold; first-timer Fiona Howard takes Grade II individual gold; Roxanne Trunnell wins Grade I individual silver

By Kim MacMillan: All horses accepted at inspection; competition commences September 3 at Palace of Versailles

I had gone on an inn-to-inn weeklong trail riding trek. On the second day, the horse I was riding tripped violently, falling on top of me, at the beach on the water's edge. I fell in the water, and I could feel it up to my ears while lying immobile with my head held still by another rider, waiting for the helicopter to airlift me to Galway University Hospital. Another French doctor rider, a cardiologist, also tended to me, and they saved my life.

Let us celebrate the para horse. His kindness, his intuition, his spirit, his purpose; he is at schooling shows and the Paralympic theatre, he packs around the novice and dances with the greats.

In the coming months and years, I aim to manifest, plan, and ride my way to the international Para Dressage world. I never want money, mind, or medical happenings to hold me back from the pursuit of gold. I’m out here to show that no matter how much or how little you may have, there’s always a way to set the world on fire.