Palgrave, Ontario – Cornerstone will host the CDI3* Spring Into Dressage competition from June 4 to 6, 2010, in addition to two other national gold dressage competitions, the Cornerstone Summer Festival from July 16-18 and the Cornerstone Summer Classic from August 20-22. Cornerstone’s annual hunter/jumper competition will be held June 23-27. All four equestrian competitions will […]

Ottawa, ON – Eleonore Elstone, Ashley Gowanlock, Tara Kowalski, and Jennifer McKenzie achieved a second place team finish for Canada at the Saddleworld International Para-Dressage CPEDI3* held December 10–13, 2009 in Werribee, Australia.   Paralympian Jennifer McKenzie of Maple Ridge, BC, achieved first place finishes aboard Sunbury Lodge Voodoo (owned by Jami Hurley) in the […]

Ottawa, ON – Georgia Young of Calgary, AB, and Amanda Harris of Aurora, ON, represented Canada at the 2009 FEI Children’s Jumping Final held December 11-18 at the Abu Dhabi Equestrian Club in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The FEI International Jumping Children’s Final is for show jumping competitors aged 12 to 14.  Each country is represented by […]

Wellington, FL – Canada’s Nicole Shinton successfully debuted her new mount, Wallenstein, at the Wellington Classic Dressage Challenge I held from January 9-10 at the Jim Brandon Equestrian Center in Wellington, FL. Shinton of Uxbridge, ON, purchased Wallenstein, an 11-year-old Swedish Warmblood by Warsteiner, this past fall in Denmark. Although the leggy chestnut gelding stands a […]

Saint-Hilaire, Quebec – Hickstead, winner of Individual Gold and Team Silver Medals at the 2008 Olympic Games under Canada’s Eric Lamaze, is now available for breeding in North America. Hickstead is a 1996 brown Dutch Warmblood stallion standing 16hh. Sired by Hamlet, his dam is Jomara by the well-known and recently deceased stallion, Ekstein. Hickstead’s […]

Ottawa, ON – Dressage Canada is pleased to announce that Arlene ‘Tuny’ Page, owner of Still Point Farm in Wellington, FL, and Flo Brown, owner of Dove Hollow Farm in Olivenhain, CA, have graciously allowed the Canadian Dressage Team to use their facilities for training sessions throughout the season. Both locations will be official southern […]

Dutch rider Imke Schellekens-Bartels made it a back-to-back double of victories in the 2009/2010 FEI World Cup™ Dressage series when heading the line-up with Hunter Douglas Sunrise at Mechelen in Belgium again this evening.  Just seven days ago the same partnership claimed the honours in Frankfurt, and today they were still full of Christmas sparkle […]

Japan’s Eiken Sato sprung a massive surprise when scooping the honours in the seventh leg of the 2009/2010 Rolex FEI World Cup™ Jumping series in Mechelen, Belgium. With his 10 year-old stallion BV Project Cartoon Z the relatively unknown 23 year-old from Nagano produced one of eight first-round clears over the massive track built by Lucien […]

Syrian athletes dominated the podium when Mohamed Jabri took gold and Hadi Nizam claimed bronze at the FEI Children’s International Jumping Final in Abu Dhabi last week but the host country finished prominently when the United Arab Emirates’ Ayesha Al-Shamsi slotted into silver medal position.    Abu Dhabi also hosted the 1999 Final which, now […]

Holland’s Eric Van der Vleuten rocketed up to the top of the leaderboard after a superb victory with VDL Groep Tomboy in the sixth leg of the Rolex FEI World Cup™ Jumping series at Olympia, London today.  Ireland’s Cian O’Connor set the target with Rancorrado in the 11-horse jump-off but was pipped at the post […]