Jo Barry
Dressage
About.
Jo Barry is an International Dressage Rider on the #horsescotland Performance Programme.
Name: Joanna (Jo) Barry
Age/ DoB: 28/12/1977 (37)
Occupation: Dressage rider and coach
Discipline: Dressage
Who is your sporting hero? Why?:
Carl Hester
Date started on performance squad?:
January 2013
Equestrian Ambition:
To compete internationally on a horse that I have trained.
Where are you based?
Kirknewton
What have the benefits of being a member of the performance squad for you personally?
I receive funding that I use towards the costs of training with Carl Hester, my trainer of 18 years..
Random/ Interesting fact about yourself:
Before I specialised in dressage I was a showing rider.
Jo's Horses.
Name: Corchapin
Stable Name: Colin
Owner: Lady Hope and Jo Hamilton
Age: 7
Sex: Gelding
Height: 16.2hh
Colour: Chestnut
Sire: Negro
Dam: Nicky
Grade: Advanced Medium
Comments: I have had ‘Colin’ since a four year old. He competed very successfully in Young Horse Classes and to date I have won 3 British Championships with him and been runner up in another 5 British Championships.
Horse: Vivaldi V
Stable Name: Freddie
Owner: Lady Hope and Jo Hamilton
Age: 12
Sex: Gelding
Height: 16.3hh
Colour: Black
Sire: Rilke
Dam: Donnabel
Grade: PSG/Inter1
Comments: I have had ‘Freddie’ since a four year old. He competed very successfully in Young Horse Classes and to date I have won 6 British Championships with him and been runner up in another 7 British Championships.
