Wellington, Florida – Showgirl, the horse acquired for Yann Candele and the Canadian Show Jumping Team in 2013, officially retired following her last competition at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, FL, on March 18, 2017. The top-placed Canadian horse at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, under Jonathan Asselin, Showgirl was acquired […]
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Members of the 2016 Canadian Olympic show jumping team have spoken against the vote cast by the Canadian delegation at the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) General Assembly held November 22, 2016, in Tokyo, Japan. The FEI proposed changing the current Olympic format for equestrian sport to that of three-man teams with no drop score and […]
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Despite a few acrobatics, Canada’s Yann Candele manages to jump clear over the final fence during a dramatic start to the Show Jumping at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games on Sunday, August 14th, 2016 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. The First Individual/First Team Qualifier was a difficult one-round competition that saw 75 pairs start, and 24 […]
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On Thursday July 14th, 2016, the Canadian Olympic Committee and Equestrian Canada named the show jumping team athletes and reserve who are selected to represent Team Canada at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The Canadian Equestrian Team’s final preparations for Rio over the next few weeks will include training camps in Florida and Germany. In addition, […]
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2008 Olympic Show Jumping Champion Eric Lamaze of Schomberg, ON, has selected Fine Lady 5 as his mount for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Lamaze was considering three horses for the upcoming Olympic Games, all owned by Andy and Carlene Ziegler’s Artisan Farms in partnership with Lamaze’s Torrey Pines Stable. His […]
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