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Professional Dressage Groom's Top Ten Grooming Items for Horse Shows

By: Justin Ridgewell

- Over the past six years I have been a professional groom and working student to the elite dressage training facility Oakcrest Farm. I have had the great opportunity and pleasure of traveling across Canada, the USA and even to Europe with grand prix…

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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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My coach Belinda Trussell just headed off to the WEG training camp with her horse Anton and two helpers. Bonnie Bonello has had her lovely horse Pikardi at our barn and they went with our gang as well.

 

Photos and reports have just come in...

 

 

Hello everyone!



I'm very happy to report…

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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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In a class won by Isabel Werth and Satchmo, Belinda Trussell/Anton placed 9th with a very respectable 69.167%. Shannon Dueck/Ayscha earned 65.208% ; Bonny Bonnello/Pikardi 64.458%. The next stop on the European Tour is CDI4* Lingen, Germany, June 4 - 6. Looking forward to bringing you the results. This CDI is the same weekend as the CDI3* Palgrave, where those riders not in Europe will be competing for their WEG qualification scores. Looks like I'll be busy posting!

The first stop on the Spring European tour is underway. At the CDI3* Wiesbaden, Germany, Belinda Trussell and Anton earned 67.660% for eighth place in the GP on Sunday, May 23. Trussell had the unfortunate luck of drawing first to go, and Robert Dover commented on his blog that he felt the test was worthy of a 70%, and many people remarked the same to him. Bonny Bonnello and Pikardi earned 66.383% for 12th place, Shannon Dueck & her mare Ayscha earned 66.213% for 13th. Wendy Christoff and… Continue

Canadians are once again proving to be a force to be reckoned with at the CDI3* Kentucky Cup.

Yesterday, Belinda Trussell & Anton were second in the Grand Prix with another score over 70% (70.213). Bonny Bonnello and Pikardi were behind them in 3rd, with 68.638%. Today, Bonnello and Pikardi rode in the Special, earning 70.292%. Full results are available at Fox Village… Continue

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.

... I tried to share with non-horsey people the elation and overwhelming sense of "being" I felt after an "Aha!" moment with my horse.



Picture this ... it's my once-a-quarter dressage lesson with Canadian Olympian Belinda Trussell at her beautiful Oakcrest Farms. The second of a long series of thunderstorms looms on the horizon as I enter the magnificent arena to start warming up for our 45-minute lesson. As the lesson begins, a rumble of thunder introduces the stormy symphony…

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Had to post this news because you couldn't meet a lovelier, more down to earth person....Go Bee!!



Ottawa, ON—Canadian Olympian Belinda Trussell of Stouffville, ON, won all three small tour FEI classes at the New England Dressage Association Fall Festival Of Dressage, CDI-W Saugerties, held in Saugerties, NY, September 10–14, 2008.



Riding the eight-year-old German-bred gelding Anton (Antaeus x Melit) owned by Robyn Eames, Trussell started the competition off by handily…

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Just for fun, we asked Canadian Olympic dressage rider and Barnmice member Belinda Trussell to give us the scoop on some stuff that only the athletes know.



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



All the athletes travel to the stadium on a bus. In Athens, I was on a bus with the other members of the equestrian team, as well as the baseball team. I sat next to a nice ball player whose name I didn't…

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