Heather Blitz

Born: December 25, 1968
Hometown: Wellington, Florida

Heather Blitz is a professional rider/trainer/clinician. She has competed in dressage since 1994 on many different horses, winning many Regional and National titles at all levels. Her career-changing horse was the Danish Warmblood stallion Rambo DVE 373 owned by Richard Freeman of Oak Hill Ranch. She began training him when he was 12-years-old, and the pair showed at the CDI Grand Prix level in south Florida and at the prestigious Dressage at Devon where they placed as high as third. Rambo was retired at age 18. Oak Hill Ranch in Louisiana employed Blitz as head trainer for seven years. More recently, Blitz lived for a number of years in Denmark and competed with the Danish gelding, Otto, at Grand Prix throughout Europe.

Her current partner is Paragon, an 18-hand Danish Warmblood gelding she owns that was bred at Oak Hill Ranch. Blitz was there the day he was born and has owned him ever since. She has done all of Paragon’s training, and he made his competition debut last year in January winning the Prix St. Georges in Wellington, FL. He has won in nine of his 11 starts in the small tour so far. Blitz and Paragon claimed the Reserve Championship in the USEF National Intermediaire I Dressage Championships at the 2011 Collecting Gaits Farm/USEF Festival of Champions in September. The pair went on to receive Team Gold and Individual Silver Medals at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Blitz is based in Wellington, FL, and has a full-time business training and teaching throughout the U.S.