Heath Ryan
Discipline:
Dressage & Eventing
Name the horses you are currently competing/training:
Greenoakes Dundee, Christopher, Donna Carera, Regardez Moi, Diablo Heart, Rockabilly
Please summarize your best performances over the last year:
- Australia’s best score at World Equestrian Games in Jerez Sapin 2002 with GV Stirling Stilton.
- Flame Eventing Horse of the Year
- Winner Camperdown Three Day Event with Diablo Heart Regardez Moi – National Medium Champion 2004
- Rockabilly breaking the sound barrier in Cross Country!
What are your competition/training goals for the next 12 months?
To position Flame for WEG in Aachen in Eventing. Get Dundee on Dressage Team for Aachen. Both are good enough to target individual honors.
When did you start riding?
1st Pony when I was 12
What keeps you succeeding or keeps you wanting to succeed?
I believe Australia will emerge as the greatest Equestrian Nation in the World, I want to be part of that, not watching it on TV!
Describe your “best” moment:
Winning my first Australian 3 Day event Title – felt like a coming of age.
When has been the worst moment?
Ricocheting off the long sides of the Hickstead dressage arena just seconds away from my final halt at the European championships.
Do you have a favorite horse?
Always feel a very special bond with any of my top horses –it’s a partner with whom you confront the world to do battle with.
Which of the Ridley horse feeds do you use and why?
Cool Command - an elite performance diet, Calm Performer – Competition feed for the horses on the way up