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Sue Blinks
Hometown:
Mount Kisco, NY
Birthdate: October 5, 1957
Horse: Flim Flam-Bay, Gelding, 16.1 hands, 11 year old,
Hanoverian, Delano-Dark brown, Gelding, 16.3 hands, 13 year old,
Dutch
Owner: Dressage Sponsor Corporation
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Susan Blinks, a 1997 USET Training and
Competition grant recipient, earned a Team Gold Medal at the 1997 CDIO
Hickstead in England and rode Flim Flam to a first place finish in the Grand
Prix Special. She also finished second and third (aboard Flim
Flam and Delano respectively) in the USET Grand Prix Championship. She
earned the high honors with second and third place finishes in the Grand
Prix, Special and Freestyle at the 1997 Festival of Champions.
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 Mr. Schulten-Baumer for two years in Germany. Blinks
is an American Horse Shows Association dressage judge. She
teaches and trains at Kundrun Farm in Mount Kisco, NY.
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| 1998 |
1st-Grand Prix
qualifier, Florida Dressage Classic, Wellington, FL (Flim
Flam) |
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2nd-Grand Prix
Freestyle, Palm Beach Dressage Derby CDI-W, Loxahatchee, FL (Delano) |
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3rd-USET Grand
Prix Championship, Gladstone, NJ (Delano) |
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5th-USET Grand
Prix Championship, Gladstone, NJ (Flim Flam) |
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12th-World
Equestrian Games, Rome, Italy (Flim Flam) |
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Member USET
Fourth Place Team, World Equestrian Games, Rome, Italy (Flim Flam) |
| 1997 |
Team Gold
Medal, CDIO Hickstead, England |
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1st-Grand Prix
Special, CDIO Hickstead, England |
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2nd-Miller's/USET
Grand Prix Championship presented by Rio Suite Hotel & Casino,
Bayer/USET Festival of Champions, Gladstone, NJ (Flim Flam) |
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3rd-USDF Grand
Prix Horse of the Year Award (Flim Flam) |
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3rd-USET Grand
Prix Championship, Gladstone, NJ (Delano) |
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