With just over a week to go to the start of the Paralympic Games, athletes making their way to Tokyo include the horses for the Para-dressage competitions. These are divided into five grades depending upon the nature and extent of the impairment and the level of difficulty of the test they perform is relative to their allocated grade. Sydney Collier from Ann Arbor, Michigan is a Grade I rider and part of the U.S. squad currently in quarantine in Aachen, Germany as a traveling reserve. This is the second time she has been named to the Paralympic team having competed in Rio with Western Rose. Since June 2019, Collier has been competing with Going for Gold LLC’s 12 year old Hanoverian gelding, All In One. Show jumper Georgina Bloomberg bought the horse for Sydney who needed a new mount for her Tokyo campaign. The pair have been consistently posting scores in the 70s this year earning them selection to the team as the first traveling reserve. Chris spoke to Sydney last week prior to the team’s departure to talk about the US combinations and who their main rivals will be.

Host: Chris Stafford

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