Para-Equestrian Canada is pleased to announce the team selection for The 2011 European Tour taking place in England in July 2011. Lauren Barwick, Eleonore Elstone, Ashley Gowanlock, and Jody Schloss were selected as the four athletes who will represent Canada as a team during the 2011 Tour. Additionally, Para-Equestrian Canada is pleased to announce that Robyn Andrews will be competing on the Tour as an individual rider for Canada.
Canada’s individual gold and silver medalist from the 2008 Paralympic Games, Barwick of Aldergrove, BC, will ride Equine Canada’s nine-year-old Oldenburg mare, Off to Paris, as well as her own nine-year-old Olderburg mare, Ferdonia 2 in competition in Grade II.
Gowanlock, of Surrey, BC, will be riding her 2010 World Equestrian Games (WEG) mount Donnymaskell, Alexander (Sandy) Mitchell’s 12-year-old Hanoverian gelding. The pair, who was one of Canada’s top three Para-dressage riders at WEG, will be competing in Grade 1b.
Langley, BC, native Elstone was also one of Canada’s top three riders at WEG. She will ride Why Not G, an eight-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding owned by Elstone and Kelleigh Kulscar in Grade IV. Finally, Schloss of Toronto, ON will be riding her new horse Inspector Rebus, a 13-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding, in competition in Grade 1a.