Shannon Dueck
Dressage Rider, Trainer/Coach
DueckDressage.com

Mailing Address:
2763 G Road
Loxahatchee, FL 33470
USA

Phone 561-723-1374
Fax - 561-784-8237
E-mail: sldueck@yahoo.com

Birth date: 10/4/62

Marital Status/Children:
Married to Lorne Dueck, Elite Equestrian Services - Wellington, Florida, Complete Facilities and Construction Management

Education: B.Sc. (University of British Columbia) Animal Science, M.S. (Texas A&M University) Equine Nutrition and Exercise Physiology

Country: Dual citizenship - Canada and USA

With the 10-year-old Danish gelding Control, Shannon Dueck has been force to be reckoned with this past year. With Dueck in the saddle, Control was the top Canadian small tour horse in Florida during the winter season and this pair continued earning victories throughout 2007. Throughout the summer of 2007, Dueck and Control have risen up the competitive ladder. The pair’s recent successes included a Prix St. Georges win at the highly competitive Centerline Events CDI-W in Saugerties, New York and a second place finish in Intermediaire competition at the prestigious Dressage at Devon.

Dueck has long been one of Canada’s leading dressage riders, having represented her country at the 1999 Pan Am Games, the 2002 World Equestrian Games in Jerez, Spain, the 2003 World Cup Final, and the 2003 Open European Dressage Championships. Along with continuing to add to her competitive victories, she has also been showing her talent as a trainer. Dueck has had tremendous success starting and developing young horses.

Control, owned by Evan Lindsay, is just one of several horses currently rising to the top with Dueck. Also among her rising stars are USDF Third Level Horse of the Year - Ringo Starr, a six-year-old Oldenburg gelding by Relevant owned by Jean Vinios that’s just about to enter Prix St. Georges competition. Dueck’s own horse, Amazing, a seven-year-old Danish gelding, will be starting on the small tour this upcoming winter season.

Dueck got her start in Wellington, Florida at the lovely Lobster Point South. She and her husband, Lorne, purchased their own five-acre farm in 2004 and reside full-time in Loxahatchee, Florida. Their twelve-stall barn offers huge stalls, individual turn outs, a mirrored ring and an indoor in the plans. “I love having my own place and being able to manage the horses, the way I like it!”