Sharon Jarvis

 

  

 

Nickname:

 

Good friends call me Shazza!

 

Reside:

 

Oakford, WA

 

Website:

 

Coming soon!

 

Disciplin:

 

Para-Dressage & Open Dressage

 

Family:

 

Lots of Ponies!!

 

Hobbies:

 

If I had time I would! I enjoy the movies if I ever get there!

 

Favourite Food:

 

Mum’s Honey Chicken

 

Favourite Movie:

 

 

I enjoy lots, hard to pick one! Forrest Gump, Pretty Women, Strictly Ballroom, Moulin Rouge.

 

Favourite Books:

 

Horse Deals and The Horse Magazine!

 

First Horse:

 

Tonka, he was a 10.3hh Pinto Australian Pony, who taught me how to stay on, each time he cantered, he bucked!

 

Current Horses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Applewood Odorado (Odie) – 14 yrs, 17hh, Gelding, Brown, Dutch Warmblood, we are currently competing FEI Small Tour, he was also my partner at the Beijing Paralypics 2008 where we got 4th place and also at the 2010 World Equestrian Games where we won 2 Bronze Medals in the Grade 3 Para-Dressage.


Showdown (Froschi) – 9 yrs, 17hh, Black, Liscenced and Performance Tested Hanoverian Stallion by Sandro Hit, recently imported from Germany by Dr Michael Procter of Oakford Equine Hospital. We will be competing Open Dressage and also FEI Para-Dressage.

 

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2010

  • Equestrian Australia Domestic Athlete of the Year
  • Equestrian WA Sports Star Of The Year
  • Equestrian WA Horse of the Year
  • Equestrian WA Para-Equestrian Rider of the Year
  • Equestrian WA Uwe Spenlen Dressage Horse of the Year
  • The Horse Magazine Equimec Rider of the Year
  • South West, Western Australia, Sports Star of the Year
  • EA National Elite Squad Member Para-Equestrian
  • EWA State Dressage Squad Member

Para Equestrian

  • EA National Para-Equestrian Dressage Championships Grade 3 Champion – Applewood Odorado
  • EA National Para-Equestrian Dressage Championships Grade 3 Reserve Champ – Centura Donnerquest
  • World Equestrian Games, Kentucky, Bronze Medal, Grade 3 Individual Championship Test – Applewood Odorado
  • World Equestrian Games, Kentucky, Bronze Medal, Grade 3 Freestyle Test – Applewood Odorado

 

2009

  • Equestrian Australia National Para-Equestrian Athlete of the Year
  • EA National Elite Squad Member Para-Equestrian
  • EWA State Dressage Squad Member

Para Equestrian

  • EA National Para-Equestrian Dressage Championships Grade 3 Champion – Applewood Odorado
  • EA National Para-Equestrian Dressage Championships Grade 3 Reserve Champion – Centura Donnerquest
  • Werribee CPEDI*** Member 4 Person Australian Team – 1st in Team Competition
  • Werribee CPEDI*** Winner Grade 3 Team Test, Championship Test and Freestyle Test
  • Werribee CPEDI*** Winner of Overall Highest Score

Able Bodied

  • EA Horseland National Dressage Championships Advanced Freestyle 2nd Place – Applewood Odorado
  • EWA State Dressage Championships Advanced Pony Champion – Meilland Troubadour

2008

  • EFAWA State Dressage Squad Member.
  • Equestrian Western Australia Excellence Award

Para Equestrian

  • Beijing Paralympics – Applewood Odorado
  • 4th Individual Championship Grade 3
  • 7th Freestyle Grade 3
  • RDAA National Champion Grade 3 – Koolena Kindred Spirit

Able Bodied

  • Winner Summer Series Dressage Leader board Advanced Level – Northern Griffin
  • Winner Margaret River Dressage Spectacular Medium Champion – Applewood Odorado

2007

  • EFAWA Show Horse Coach of the Year

Para Equestrian

  • Winner overall World Championships Australian Selection Trials – Northern Griffin
  • State Champion Grade 3 RDAWA Dressage Championships – Meilland Troubadour
  • 6th Place, Grade 3, Championship Test, World Para-Dressage Championships, England.

Able Bodied

  • Winner Bates EFAWA Pony Dressage Leader board – Meilland Troubadour

 

Aspirations:

 

 

 

To win Gold for Australia at the Paralympics and also ride for Australia at the Olympics, not just the Paralympics! I don’t think you could beat the feeling of hearing the National anthem being played while standing on the podium with a Gold medal around your neck.

 

Superstitions:

 

I think I have been cured of them all!

 

Advice for aspiring riders:

 

Work and work hard!

 

Most admired sportsperson:

 

Lance Armstrong and Isabel Werth, and all the other amazing Para riders that I compete against.

 

If you could invite 5 people

to dinner who would it be

& why:

 

  

Too hard to pick! It would have to be all the great Dressage Riders, to be in a room, where everyone shared the same passion and to have all that wonderful knowledge surrounding me would have to be a huge buzz.

 

 

Sharon uses the following feeds for her horses: