Beezie Madden was the individual Bronze medalist in the 2008 Olympic Games and also a member of the Gold medal U.S. team. In 2006 she won both team and individual silver medals at the World Equestrian Games aboard the nearly flawless Authentic. She was also a member of the Gold Medal team at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, and part of the 2003 gold medal Pan American Games team.

To date, Madden has competed in three World Cup Finals and has 14 wins in Nations Cup competition and 8 World Cup Qualifier wins. In 2005 year she won the $200,000 Budweiser American Invitational in Tampa aboard Authentic and repeated the feat in 2007. Other notable finishes include the Million Dollar CN International at Spruce Meadows in Canada aboard Iron Springs Farm’s Judgement in 2005, a feat that she nearly duplicated in 2006 year finishing third on Wexner’s DeSilvio. She is also a two-time winner of the prestigious Spruce Meadows Atco Power Queen Elizabeth II Cup, both years riding Authentic.

Madden was a contributor to the 2005 first place finish in the Samsung Super League and as well as to the 2006 second place US finish. In 2007, Madden added winning the Grand Prix of Aachen to her list of notable achievements. Originally from the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area, Madden began competing at the Grand Prix level in 1985. Horses have been a family affair for Beezie; her parents, Joe and Kathy Patton, until recently have owned a horse farm in Wisconsin, and Beezie and her husband John operate a farm in Cazenovia.

Northern Magic, 1989 Show Jumping Horse of the Year