Ottawa, ON – Three-time Canadian Olympian Ashley Holzer won the Grand Prix Freestyle at CDI 4* Lingen, in Lingen, GER, held June  4 – 6, 2010.

On the second stop of the Dressage Canada European Tour, Holzer and her 2008 Olympic partner Pop Art (Amsterdam x Cabochon), earned a score of 76.300%. The 13-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding is owned by Rusty Holzer and Moreen Nicoll. The duo beat England’s Laura Bechtolsheimer and Andretti H, winners of Grand Prix for Freestyle test.

Canadian rider Shannon Dueck of Loxachatchee, FL, scored 69.650% for eighth in the Grand Prix Freestyle riding Ayscha, her nine-year-old Oldenburg mare by Welt Hit II. Cheryl Meisner of Blandford, NS finished just behind Dueck in ninth place with 69.400% aboard Paganini, John Risley’s 13-year-old Dutch Warmblood stallion (Havidoff x Statuar).

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