Ottawa, ON – Christilot Boylen has informed the Dressage Canada Olympic Selection Committee that she will not travel to Hong Kong with Gachino as the Reserve Combination for the 2008 Olympic Games.  The Reserve position requires that the combination travel with the three team combinations to be ready to compete at the Olympic Games so […]

Ottawa, ON-Following an injury sustained during training, Exploring ridden by Jessica Phoenix of Uxbridge, ON, has been withdrawn from the Team nominated to compete at the 2008 Olympic Games-Eventing Competition. It is expected that Exploring will make a full recovery for the 2009 season. Following the selection procedure, an alternate/substitute horse and rider combination will […]

Thermal, CA – June 30, 2008 – Since the close of the 2008 HITS Desert Circuit in Thermal, CA, the management team of the horse show has been working diligently to make improvements and renovations to the facility. It is now seven months before the 2009 winter show season, and HITS is pleased to announce […]

Ste. Justine De Newton, Quebec – Twenty-eight-year-old Lauren Hunkin, of Caledon, Ontario, is already making a habit of something she had never done  just over a week ago. One week to the day after her first-ever grand prix victory, Hunkin, repeated, scoring her second grand prix victory. The win came in the same venue and […]

Blainville, Quebec – Tina Busse-Irwin of Lakefield, ON, was the winner on Saturday night during the grand finale of the CDI-W Blainville International Classic held June 26 to 28 at Blainville Equestrian Park north of Montreal, QC. Sold-out since its inception, Saturday evening’s Freestyle Gala is the highlight of the CDI-W Blainville International Classic and […]

CALGARY, ALBERTA  – Members of Canada’s Olympic show jumping team competed as individuals on June 28th, along with riders from five other nations, and two of Canada’s team members went head-to-head in the tie-breaker. Jill Henselwood came up the victor in the $50,000 RBC Cup at the Spruce Meadows Canada One tournament. Henselwood, of Oxford […]

Blainville, Quebec – Quebec’s own Evi Strasser of Ste-Adele enjoyed success on Friday at the CDI-W Blainville International Classic taking place June 26 to 28 north of Montreal, QC. While the Canadian Olympian usually earns accolades as a competitor at the international dressage competition, on Friday she was celebrating victories as an owner and as […]

Ottawa, ON—Riding before an appreciative Canadian audience, 2008 Olympic Dressage Team members Ashley Holzer and Pop Art rode to victory in both the Grand Prix and the Grand Prix Freestyle at the CDI-W Blainville Summer Classic, held in Blainville, QC, June 20 to 22, 2008. Aboard Pop Art, an 11-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding (Amsterdam x […]

Blainville, Quebec — In the opening day’s competition at the CDI-W Blainville International Classic taking place June 26 to 28 north of Montreal, QC, Tina Busse-Irwin of Lakefield, ON, and Amicelli bested a field of six to win the Grand Prix with a score of 64.542%. Busse-Irwin, 27, was pleased with the performance she received […]

Blainville, Quebec  – In her final competitive appearance before the equestrian events at the 2008 Olympic Games, Ashley Holzer showed the Canadian audience what she hopes to demonstrate to the Olympic judges in Hong Kong this August. Riding to music from Disney’s Millennium Celebration and the film National Treasure, she and Pop Art delivered a world […]