Sue Blinks was a dressage rider who competed at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, helping the USA team to a bronze medal. She also competed at the 1998 and 2002 World Equestrian Games, winning a team silver medal in 2002. In 2014 Blinks was given the US Equestrian Federation Gold Medal of Distinction.
Blinks trained and rode in San Diego until 2016 when she relocated to Tryon, North Carolina and Wellington, Florida where she trains and rides for Leatherdale Farms. She has also served as equestrian director at the University of Massachusetts.