Month: August 2021

Canada’s Para Equestrian Team is leading overnight!

Tomorrow ,August 29, will see the completion of the Team Tests with the competitions for Grades IV and V. As one of only two countries to have all three combinations compete on day one, which featured Grades I, II and III, Canada provisionally sits at the top of the leaderboard with a final score of…

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This is not a perfect. This is a practice.

Blogger Sarah Davis, the Yoga Cowgirl, shared a post that explained that she uses the phrase “this is not a perfect this is a practice” when teaching yoga. The phrase leapt off the page for me. I had a riding lesson /training session the next day. The phrase travelled through my mind often as I…

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Meet the Canadian Paralympic horses!

When Alan Manning, the Canadian Team veterinarian, posted some nice photos of the Paralympian horses I thought you would like to meet them all. So here they are. I think these Paralympian horses are a very handsome group and they will all do their best for their riders. Today, August 25,will be the first veterinary…

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Meet the Canadian Para Equestrian Team!

A team of four Para dressage riders and their horses will be competing for Canada in Para Equestrian at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. This post is a copy of an article on the Para equestrians from paralympic.ca      Lauren Barwick (Aldergrove, BC) & Sandrino, Winona Hartvikson (Langley, BC) & Onyx, Jody Schloss (Toronto,…

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