Kerry Millikin was an eventing rider who won a bronze medal in the individual event at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Millikin also won a gold medal in team eventing at the 1999 Pan American Games, and a team bronze at the 1998 World Equestrian Games. She finished seventh at the 1997 European Open competition at the famed Burghley eventing trials, won a medal at the Rolex event, and also placed third at Badminton in 2000. After that event, she retired her Olympic horse Out and About, known to her as “Outie,” to a 90-acre field on her farm. Outie lived until 2015, passing peacefully at age 28 from the effects of old age.
Millikin earned her degree in nursing but did not practice as a nurse, rather becoming an artist, which had always been her passion. She initially painted landscapes but then got in to sculpture, creating bronzes by the lost-wax technique, at first mostly of animals, dog and horses, but eventually she began producing human figures. She lived and practiced her art in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts.
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