Ottawa, Ontario — Jump Canada has announced the Canadian Show Jumping Team that will contest the $350,000 BMO Nations’ Cup at the CSIO Spruce Meadows ‘Masters’ Tournament to be held September 5-9, 2007, in Calgary, AB.
Jill Henselwood of Oxford Mills, ON, Eric Lamaze of Schomberg, ON, Ian Millar of Perth, ON, and John Pearce of Stouffville, ON, are the four riders selected to represent Canada in the richest team show jumping event in the world, the $350,000 BMO Nations’ Cup on Saturday, September 8, 2007. For the first time in the event’s 30-year history, Canada enters as the defending champion.
Millar, an eight-time Olympian, will lead the team. Millar recently anchored the Canadian Team at the 2007 Pan American Games in July, helping to secure the Team Silver Medal and a berth to the 2008 Olympic Games. His strong 2007 season also included helping Canada win its second consecutive Nations’ Cup title in Wellington, FL, in March. For the Nations’ Cup at Spruce Meadows, Millar will be paired with his Pan Am Games mount, the 12-year-old Holsteiner gelding In Style, owned by Susan Grange and Lothlorien Farm.