Paralympic dressage rider Sydney Collier is based in upstate New York from where she is aiming for her second Olympic Games next year and hopes to have a new partner to take her on this journey.  Since 2016 after she suffered her 5th stroke she has been classified as a Grade 1 rider, which is the most severely impaired, Sydney has long since battled against all the odds since she started riding some 14 years ago. 
But nothing has deterred her from the sport she loves and the partnership she strives for with her horse. She was a member of the 2014 FEI World Equestrian Games in Normandy riding Victoria Dugan’s Warmblood gelding Willi Wesley finishing 13th. Two years later she returned to the squad to make her Olympic debut in Rio, this time finishing 9th in the team test and 7th place in Grade 1b Individual Championships on her trainer Wesley Dunham’s horse Western Rose. She then has since teamed up with a new sponsor in show jumper Georgina Bloomberg and their quest now is to find a horse for Sydney for the Tokyo Games.
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