Canada’s Lauren Barwick has qualified to move on to the final Freestyle Test on Sept. 16 to close out the para-dressage competition at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, BRA.

On Sept. 15, Barwick rode Onyx, a 13-year-old Hanoverian gelding sired by Wolkentanz and owned by Equestrian Canada, to a seventh place finish on a score of 68.686% in the Grade II Individual Test. Having achieved a score of 69.265% for seventh place in the Team Test earlier in the week, Barwick’s two-round total qualified her to move on as part of the top seven to compete in the Grade II Freestyle.

“I was happy with Onyx,” said Barwick, 39, who has now competed at four consecutive Paralympic Games and has individual Gold and Silver medals under her belt from Beijing 2008. “It was a clean test and the walk was much better today. We did what we set out to do in our plan, so I couldn’t ask any more from him.”

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