Firmus

Owner, rider and trainer: Lorraine Stubbs
 

Career Highlights

• 1991 Pan American Games, Havana Cuba —   Individual Gold
• 1991 Pan American Games, Havana Cuba —   Team Gold
  

 
Firmus was the first horse Lorraine Stubbs trained completely to Grand Prix, here in Canada. He was a German-bred Westphalian of the “F” line that Lorraine bought as a three-year-old. He never went to Europe to show or train and competed solely in North America.

"He was an easy-going horse, perhaps a little too quiet at times,” notes Lorraine, “and was a winner from the first year he started to compete, which was at age four. Being very sound and healthy he never missed a year of competition. In 1991, he won double Gold medals for me at the Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba. This was despite the fact that on the day of the Individual competition he came up with a very fat leg, the result of an infected insect bite. He still carried on and won. He was a brave soul.”

Firmus passed away in Colorado in 2008, at 24 years of age, and is laid to rest in the foothills of the Rockies.