Hometown: Wellington, Fla. Birthday: 10/10/1963 Sport/Disciplines: Dressage Olympic Years: 1988, 2004, 2008, 2012

Ashley Holzer spent nearly four decades as a staple of the Canadian dressage team, highlighted by four Olympic appearances. At Seoul 1988, she was a part of the bronze winning Canadian team. She also competed in Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, and London 2012. Holzer also made three FEI World Equestrian Games appearances under the Canadian flag at Jerez de la Frontera 2002, Aachen 2006, and Lexington 2010. 

Holzer officially became a U.S. citizen in 2016 and declared as a U.S. athlete in 2017. In 2022, Holzer and Valentine were part of the silver medal winning U.S. Dressage Team at the FEI Dressage Nations Cup the Netherlands in Rotterdam, where they also finished third individually and named to the U.S. Dressage Team for the 2022 FEI Dressage World Championships in Herning, Denmark. 

Holzer opened the 2026 season with a victory on Hawtins San Floriana, a 2012 Hanoverian mare (San Amour I x Florestan I) she co-owns with longtime supporter, Diane Fellows. The pair took home the win in the Grand Prix CDI3* at AGDF, the mare’s first Grand Prix victory in two years. Holzer was selected to The Dutta Corp. U.S. Dressage Team for the opening leg of the 2026 FEI Dressage Nations Cup series in Wellington, where she and Hawtins San Floriana helped anchor the team to a historic win – U.S. Dressage’s first Nations Cup victory on home soil in five years – finishing ahead of Germany and Canada. The pair earned a spot on the short list for the U.S. Dressage Team for the 2026 FEI Dressage World Championship and have continued to achieve top results at home and internationally, most notably a second-place finish in the Hartpury CDI3* with a score of 72.574%.  

She and her husband, Rusty, have two children, Harrison and Emma, who are both film actors.