Brittany Desiderio

Brittany Danna Desiderio (November 9, 1988 in Oldwick, New Jersey) is a multiple-award-winning equestrian. To date, Desiderio has seven U.S National Championships, 5 U.S Reserve National Championships, and over 50 U.S Top Tens. She has ridden, and ridden successfully, many different styles of riding including, but not limited to western, side saddle, saddle seat and hunter jumper.

Desiderio won her first U.S National Championship at the age of eleven at the Youth Nationals in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in the Half Arabian/Anglo-Arabian Hunter Pleasure Junior To Ride on Up Up And Away. "Up Up" is Half Arabian, Half Saddlebred and was bred and trained by the Desiderios. Her second win was at the 2002 Canadian Nationals where she won Reserve National Champion on the same horse.

In 2003 Desiderio won a U.S National Champion on a horse named Rocky Mountain Colors in the Half Arabian Anglo Arabian Ladies Side Saddle Western. This was the first time Desiderio rode side saddle, and she won the National Championship. The following year Desiderio won U.S Reserve National Champion in the same class and won a U.S National Championship in the Half Arabian Anglo Arabian Western Pleasure Junior Owner to Ride. "Rocky" is Half Arabian Half Paint.

The same year, Desiderio went to the Reserve with Fames Reflection in the Half Arabian Anglo Arabian Halter Mares Stock Hunter type. Fame was also bred and trained by the Desiderios.

At the 2007 Sport Horse Nationals, Desiderio and her horse Arox II went to the U.S National Champion in the Half Arabian Anglo Arabian Sport Horse Under Saddle Amateur to Ride out of 72 horses, the largest class the Arabian horse world has seen at a national event. Desiderio made it through three rounds and then competed against the professionals in the Half Arabian Anglo Arabian Sport Horse Under Saddle Open and won the U.S National Reserve Champion.

At the 2008 Canadian Nationals, Desiderio showed her horse Cartier, a grey Half Arabian Half Hanoverian mare and came home with three National Championships, One Reserve National Championship and six National Top Tens. Cartier and Desiderio won the Half Arabian Hunter Hack Open, the Half Arabian Working Hunter Over Fences AAOTR, the Hunt Seat Equitation over Obstacles, and took Reserve in the Half Arabian Working Hunter Over Fences Open. They were placed third overall in both the Half Arabian Sport Horse Under Saddle Open and Half Arabian Sport Horse Under Saddle ATR.

Desiderio has been riding since she was two-years-old. She is taught by her mother, Dana Desiderio. The Desiderios take the family business, Desiderio, Ltd. (Est. 1950) to shows all over the U.S ending with Nationals.

For the first two years of high school, Desiderio attended the Loomis Chaffee School, in Windsor, Connecticut She then attended Bernards High School. During this time, Desiderio played Ice Hockey, field hockey and softball. She was captain of her swim team in her sophomore year. Desiderio now attends Rutgers University and is majoring in English with Psychology as her minor.fact|date=September 2008

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