There is a woman that my boss thinks I should ride with on her horses. The woman is supposedly an ‘Olympic Dressage Rider’ from Canada named Pam. She is located in Franklin, KY.
Anybody know anything about her? Website? Pics? Info?
Anything will help!!!
Thanks!
Don’t recollect a Pam as a Canadian ‘Olympic’ dressage rider - how old would she be? - possibly another discipline?
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Don’t recollect a Pam as a Canadian ‘Olympic’ dressage rider - how old would she be? - possibly another discipline?[/QUOTE]
Maybe in her forties for fifties? No idea. She can do some jumping (I am told) but I wont ride with her until I know more about her.
Pam Goodrich is a Canadian dressage rider who has ridden at the top levels. She would be a little older.
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Pam Goodrich is a Canadian dressage rider who has ridden at the top levels. She would be a little older.[/QUOTE]
Yes, but the Pam I am talking about is not in New Hampshire. She is in Franklin, KY…
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Maybe in her forties for fifties? No idea. She can do some jumping (I am told) but I wont ride with her until I know more about her.[/QUOTE]
I’ll ride with her in a NY minute…I wouldn’t pass up any riding opportunities, for they are far and so few between.
Are you thinking of Pam Bullington? I know she rides with Ed Rothkranz, who was a Canadian olympic rider is the 80’s.
A lot of times people don’t understand very well what a trainer’s history is, they confuse the words “FEI”, “Grand Prix” and “Olympic” and they don’t understand the different levels, awards, competitions. You don’t always get the straight poop from people about various trainers because most people can’t tell others accurately what a trainer’s done. A lady told me her neice was ‘trying out for the Olympics at Gladstone’ - the kid was riding training level on a backyard horse at a clinic. The kid had potential, but was not really an Olympic contender.
Very, very few Americans have actually been on an Olympic dressage team. 3 (or in past 4) people go every 4 years. In the past 50 years, that’s 12 teams of 4, or 48 people in the USA. And quite a few people have gone multiple times so it’s more like 35 or 40 people, most of them concentrated around DC and California/wintering in Fla. IN the whole USA.
A lot more people have tried to qualify.
Whether someone is an ‘Olympic rider’ or not probably doesn’t matter if one is learning dressage/looking for lessons. There are a lot of good people out there who can teach but haven’t gone to the Olympics.
Pam Goodrich is a Canadian dressage rider who has ridden at the top levels. She would be a little older. She might be doing clinics in that area.
Tami (Fleming) Crawford is in Franklin KY, I think and has been in the top 10 or 12 in the USA, trained with Robert Dover, I would guess she has been competing in dressage for 30 years.
crissa hoffman who trained Harry Callahan the GP American saddlebred is in KY.
Sue Kolstad is in KY. Reese Koffler is in KY. Susan Harris and Reese Koffler are USDF certified instructors. Kathy Priest, I think is still in KY. I can’t remember anyone else.
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I don’t know of any Pams that have been on the Canadian Olympic Dressage team for the past 20 years. (I am in Canada).
Can you get her last name and Google her?
If Pam Bullington’s maiden name was Pam Cowen, I’ll bet that’s who it is. Not on any Olympic team, but has some show credentials.
“There is a woman that my boss thinks I should ride with on her horses”
Um, maybe like ask your Boss to come up with the last name of this person he/she thinks you MUST ride with.:lol:
“I won’t ride with her because she didn’t/hasn’t ridden or gone to the Olympics” seems rather haughty.
I agree 100% with slc2’s comment in regards to the many good teachers that haven’t gone to the olympics. How do you think most of us afford lessons? :lol:
Why not ask your boss who seems to know more about it?
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It depends. If it was someone that really was a legitimate candidate to be in the Olympics, it would be a mistake to work with anyone who wasn’t a part of that world.
I haven’t known of anyone named Pam that as on the Canadian Dressage team. Being from Canada I personally know a few of them team members. Maybe it was someone who tried out for the team. There are many people who declare and try out. Myself I tried out for the Pan American Games in 1999, but it doesn’t make me a team member just someone who has ridden at the FEI levels.
I believe Tami Crawford is in Franklin, Tenn., not Ky
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sorry, you’re right. it is tennessee. another ‘mismemorobilia’
Let’s not forget it was not this Pam person who purported to be an Olympic rider, it was something the OP’s boss said.
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It depends. If it was someone that really was a legitimate candidate to be in the Olympics, it would be a mistake to work with anyone who wasn’t a part of that world.
:lol:
you are running out of shit.
come on, stretch yourself, reach for the gold ring - TRY!
I know someone named ‘Pam’ who was a GROOM for one of Canada’a Olympic Eventers…
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