02/10/2025
HS ATHLETE
Congratulations to Belinda and Quincy on winning the Buffalo Wild Wings Future Challenge Prix St. Georges on Sunday!
Working with Belinda as an athlete off the horse has been an absolute honour. Belinda comes to every session ready to learn and understands the importance of training specifically for her sport. Our sport is about perfection and precision, and you must train with that exact mindset when you work out so it effortlessly transitions to your riding. Belinda’s programming changes monthly as she and her horse increase strength; I look forward to what’s to come for this magnificent pair. It’s a true honour to train and ride with Belinda Trussell.
“Belinda, a two-time Olympian and in four World Games, described Quincy as like a sports car but all business.
“One thing I think that makes a top horse is that when they’re tired or in a new environment, she’s never really been in an environment like this, and they dig deep, and she digs deep. She’s absolutely incredible, but she’s very funny. Like her personality is very much like, it’s all business, now we get down to business. You do your job, I’ll do my job. And it’s an incredible feeling, she’s so with you as a rider. It’s beautiful.
“She’s so compact yet supple and handy. That’s what is amazing about her. She reacts so quickly. You can turn on a dime, you can ask her to sit, you can ask her to go forward. She has amazing natural balance. It just feels easy for her.
“I’m grateful to have a horse like that under me. And I really feel she loves it. She loves her work. Like this morning, she actually ran on the trailer. We were like, whoa, whoa, slow down.”
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