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To provide Ontario’s developing equestrian athletes coaching and mentoring and to raise funds and awareness for Ontario’s equestrian athletes participating in the OHT program who compete as a Canadian at a CDI 3* or higher, Canadian Team Event or event approved by the OHT Board of Directors.

Ontario Has Talent keeps getting bigger and bigger. The first of the clinics, the Diane Creech clinic had a good turn out. The Tom Dvorak clinic ended with an even bigger…

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Dressage Canada Announces 2011 Short and Long Lists

 

Ottawa, Ontario—Dressage Canada is pleased to announce the 2011 Dressage Short and Long Lists. The horse/rider combinations were selected based on criteria that considered 2010 competition results.

 

The following horse/rider combinations have been identified as official members of the 2011

Dressage Canada Short List A

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Here's the latest update from behind the scenes with the Canadian dressage team at WEG!

 

Well it's here!



The first leg of dressage starts bright and early Monday morning (8:30am to be exact). Monday and Tuesday mark the team dressage competion, where 2 rider's from each team will go on Monday (one in the morning and one in the afternoon group), while the next two ride on Tuesday in the…

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Wendy Christoff of Delta, BC and Evi STrasser of St. Adele QC have been named as the reserve riders for the WEG Team. They will join Ashley Holzer, Belinda Trussell, Bonny Bonnello & Victoria Winter at the Pre-WEG Training Camp at Woodspring Farms in Sept. Best of luck to all of the team.

Dressage Canada is pleased to announce the following rider/horse combinations have been named to the Canadian Dressage Team for the World Equestrian Games.

 

Ashley Holzer of Toronto, ON and Pop Art, a 13-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding owned by Rusty Holzer and Moreen Nicoll, earned an average qualifying score of 72.329%.

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The Florida show season may be over, but Canadians are still competing elsewhere and earning their qualifying scores for the WorldEquestrian Games team. Wendy Christoff of Delta, BC earned her third score above 65% at the CDI3* Burbank aboard Pfalstaff, her 16-year-old Hanoverian gelding by Palladium. The duo earned 65.830% in the Grand Prix on April 1.… Continue

Today's GP start times: Belinda Trussell & Anton ride at 1:10; Ashley Holzer & Pop Art at 1:50; and Diane Creech & Devon L ride at 3:15pm.

Just an update to let you know that it looks like four Canadians will be competing at the World Dressage Masters CDI5* this weekend in Florida. Ashley Holzer/PopArt, Belinda Trussell/Anton will be joined by Diane Creech/Devon L and Cheryl Meisner/Paganini. Stay tuned for results.

Red Scarf Equestrian presents a behind-the-scenes Q&A with Olympian Ashley Holzer





1. How do they organize all the athletes before they march into the stadium? What is everyone doing?



Unfortunately we were not able to attend the opening ceremonies in Beijing as our events were held a plane ride away in Hong Kong. I was very sad to have not participated in them. I was worried about…

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