The road to in­ter­na­tion­al com­pe­ti­tion is rarely easy, but for T&T's Jaimie Ser­rette-Fletch­er, it's been a whirl­wind of ded­i­ca­tion, adapt­abil­i­ty, and ground­break­ing achieve­ment. Ser­rette-Fletch­er is on a quest to qual­i­fy for a ma­jor in­ter­na­tion­al com­pe­ti­tion in Mex­i­co lat­er this year, and her jour­ney is an in­spi­ra­tion to rid­ers across the Caribbean.

To pur­sue this dream, Ser­rette-Fletch­er trav­elled to Colom­bia, a hub of eques­tri­an ex­cel­lence, to com­pete and pre­pare. Rid­ing two dif­fer­ent hors­es in dres­sage tests – hors­es she had nev­er com­pet­ed on be­fore! This is a tes­ta­ment to Ser­rette-Fletch­er's ex­cep­tion­al horse­man­ship and abil­i­ty to quick­ly con­nect with new equine part­ners.

More than just a rid­er: a team ef­fort

Ser­rette-Fletch­er's suc­cess is not sole­ly her own. It's a prod­uct of un­wa­ver­ing team­work and a shared vi­sion. The T&T Eques­tri­an Fed­er­a­tion, un­der the lead­er­ship of pres­i­dent and coach Patrice Stollmey­er, has pro­vid­ed cru­cial sup­port. Coach Amy Costel­lo has played a key role in Ser­rette-Fletch­er's de­vel­op­ment. And the un­wa­ver­ing sup­port of her par­ents, In­ga and Clive, has been es­sen­tial. Fur­ther­more, the ex­per­tise of in­ter­na­tion­al train­er Maria In­es Gar­cia (Colom­bia) has been in­valu­able in prepar­ing Ser­rette-Fletch­er for the chal­lenges ahead.

Break­ing bar­ri­ers, set­ting stan­dards

Ser­rette-Fletch­er's jour­ney is sig­nif­i­cant for T&T eques­tri­an sport. She is push­ing bound­aries and achiev­ing lev­els of com­pe­ti­tion reached by on­ly a hand­ful of rid­ers from her coun­try. Her ca­pac­i­ty to adapt to new hors­es and chal­leng­ing en­vi­ron­ments show­cas­es her ex­cep­tion­al tal­ent and ded­i­ca­tion. But more than that, it demon­strates a deep and gen­uine con­nec­tion with hors­es – a bond that trans­lates in­to re­mark­able per­for­mances.

Ser­rette-Fletch­er's sto­ry is one of per­se­ver­ance, team­work, and the pur­suit of a dream. As she con­tin­ues her jour­ney to­wards Mex­i­co, she car­ries the hopes and pride of T&T, prov­ing that with pas­sion and ded­i­ca­tion, any­thing is pos­si­ble.

"What I ad­mire most about Jaimie is her con­nec­tion with her hors­es and her will­ing­ness to learn and adapt. Reach­ing the FEI Ju­nior lev­el and com­pet­ing in­ter­na­tion­al­ly at her age de­mands not on­ly skill but al­so a deep un­der­stand­ing of horse­man­ship. With her ded­i­ca­tion, I have no doubt that she will con­tin­ue to achieve great things with­in the de­mand­ing FEI stan­dards," said Gar­cia.