Canada’s dressage riders wrapped up another successful showing during week five of the Adequan Global Dressage Festival (AGDF), which took place Feb. 10-14, 2016 in Wellington, FL and featured international calibre competition up to the CDI 5* level.
The top Canadian at the CDI 5* Grand Prix level was Canadian Olympian Belinda Trussell of Stouffville, ON and her veteran partner, Anton (Antaeus x Shirley), a 16-year-old Sachsen-Anhaltiner gelding owned by her mother, Robyn Eames, and husband, Mark Trussell.
They began week five with a seventh place finish in the CDI 5* FEI Grand Prix, scoring 70.740%, before moving on to the CDI 5* FEI Grand Prix Special, where they earned 71.431% for third place.