With a mix of veterans and prospects, both human and equine, the Canadian Para-Dressage Team won top team honours at the Del-Mar, California, CPEDI3* held March 10–13, 2011.

With the top three combined scores from the Team test and Individual Championship test for Canadian team members Lauren Barwick, Ashley Gowanlock, Eleonore Elstone and Stephanie Ross, the Canadians handily came out on top with a score of 198.921. Second place went to the American Team with a score of 185.922.

Canada’s individual gold and silver medalist from the 2008 Paralympic Games, Barwick of Aldergrove, BC, won first and second in all three tests in Grade II. Riding her new 12-year-old Oldenburg mare, Ferdonia 2, Barwick was first with 71.032% in the Team test, and second with Equine Canada’s nine-year-old Oldenburg mare, Off to Paris, scoring 70.079%. In the Individual Championship Test, Barwick was first with Off To Paris with 72.698% and second with Ferdonia 2, scoring 70.317%. In the Freestyle, Barwick easily won riding Ferdonia 2 with 75.167%, which was also the high score of the CPEDI3* competition. With Off To Paris, Barwick finished with 73.333% for second.

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