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Sarah TUBMAN

Sarah TUBMAN, American Dressage, Eventing athlete.

Name Sarah TUBMAN
FEI ID 10010049
Gender Female
Date of Birth 11/08/1988
Competing for United States of America - USA
Registrations Dressage 2025
Eventing 2013
Last update 16/02/2023
FEI Database



Dressage 70x70 Eventing 70x70
Sport Specific Information
When and where did you begin this sport? She began riding on a pony at age three.
Why this sport? She fell in love with horses after her father bought her first pony. Throughout her childhood riding career she took up Western events like showmanship and Western pleasure, then joined Pony Club, where she discovered jumping. This led to eventing before she switched focus to dressage at age 16 after working for David Wilson at W Farms in Southern California. "After getting to experience top dressage horses, I decided dressage was my calling. I sold the eventing horses and I've been strictly dressage ever since."
Club / Team Donato Farms: Wellington, FL, USA
Name of coach Lee Tubman [personal, husband]
Further Personal Information
Family Husband Lee Tubman
Residence Wellington, FL, USA
Occupation Athlete, Coach, Horse Trainer
Languages English
General Interest
Memorable sporting achievement Competing at the 2022 CDI4* event in Aachen, Germany. (dressage-news.com, 19 Jul 2022; fei.org, 02 Jul 2022)
Most influential person in career Coach Scott Hassler, and sponsor Gerry Ibanez. (sidelinesmagazine.com, 17 Jun 2019; ridingmagazine.com, 27 Jul 2018)
Sporting philosophy / motto "The secret to your success is hidden in your daily routine." (Facebook profile, 14 Mar 2022)
Other sports She has competed in eventing at CIC2* level in 2004. (FEI, 27 May 2004)
Famous relatives Her husband Lee Tubman has competed in dressage for Canada, and has also served as her coach and as a four-star international judge. (dressage-news.com, 13 Dec 2021, 06 Feb 2021)
Ambitions To compete at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile. (eurodressage.com, 13 Nov 2022)
Other information STABLES In 2022 she and her husband Lee Tubman began operating at Donato Farms, owned by Jeff and Jessica Friedrich, in Wellington, FL, United States of America. She previously trained at Summit Farm in Murrieta, CA, United States of America, where she also ran a horse sales and training business alongside her sponsor and mentor Gerry Ibanez. (eurodressage.com, 13 Nov 2022, 07 Nov 2022; summitfarm.com, 19 Jul 2022) HUSBAND AND COACH In December 2021 she married Canadian dressage rider, coach, and judge, Lee Tubman. At the beginning they did not have a coach-rider relationship but after the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020, Tubman found himself with any events to judge so he started coaching Lockman. "At first, it could be rough. As a judge, I look for what I can fix, and she didn't always agree. In fact, she once told her mom that she would never ride the way I was telling her to, but now she does. We had some strong arguments at first, but then we had an epiphany!," Tubman said. (sidelinesmagazine.com, 01 Feb 2023)