AUGUST 2023 THE RIDER /25 Section 2


It Takes A Village! Outpouring Of Support For Dressage Team


Dressage Community Coming together for Team Canada on the road to Santiago


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Tina Irwin (left), EC’s Equestrian of the Year 2019 is seen here aboard Laurencio (Laurentio x Donnerhall) holding her gold medal from the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. Lindsay Kellock (right), also part of the 2019 Pan Am team rides Floratina (Fidertanz x Rubin Royal) owned by Chloe Gasiorowski to a 73.147 test score that helped Canada secure the top spot on the podium. Photo Credit: Cealy Tetley


Ottawa, ON July 14, 2023 – Donors are stepping up to help the Canadian Dressage team get to the Pan Ameri- can Games in October 2023. The community has risen to the challenge that was posed publicly just last week to help close the gap of $60,000 that is needed to send a full team to the Games in Santiago, Chile this fall. Equestrian Canada


(EC), the Dressage Commit-


tee and the EC High Per- formance Advisory Group (HPAG), Dressage want to thank everyone that has joined the campaign so far. In addition to the $20,000 matching donation set last week, two donors have anonymously


provided


$10,000 gifts and a family foundation has made a con- tribution of $5,000. The most recent contri-


bution has come from Nex- olia Dressage which has


answered the match posed by the Christoff Family Foundation with a generous donation of $20,000. Nexo- lia has a history of support with Team Canada, having provided funding to the North American Youth Championships Dressage team over the last number of years.


Other champions for


the cause have created a va- riety of opportunities to join the movement. Team Irwin Dressage is hosting an evening fundraiser with freestyles and a silent auc- tion on Thursday, August 3 at their Strathfield Farm in Stouffville, ON. A Go- FundMe page initiated by Lori Bell has garnered over $5,000 in personal dona- tions, and Wellington Dres- sage is hosting a fundraiser clinic with Tom Dvorak on August 19. “Great things happen


Tina Irwin (left), EC’s Equestrian of the Year 2019 is seen here aboard Laurencio (Laurentio x Donnerhall) holding her gold medal from the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. Photo Credit: Cealy Tetley


when the community comes together towards a common goal,” said Vicky Lavoie of Nexolia Dressage. “To see the team effort that is hap- pening in Dressage right now, it’s so important to rec- ognize this because it has made me believe that we can get it done together. I am in- spired and feel others will be inspired too.”


Equestrian Canada has


$1,111,500 in its budget this year to put towards sending three discipline teams to the cross-continental event in Santiago. With financial challenges faced across all sports and the increasing in- flationary strain of horse transport and other direct costs, there are short falls in Dressage, Eventing and Jumping that need to be filled outside of the usual funding channels. Each of


the three


Olympic disciplines have approached their fundraising needs in unique ways and the latest appeal initiated by the Dressage Committee and the HPAG has been met with such enthusiasm that the ini- tial goal has been surpassed within just one week. “We are so thrilled with


the response from our com- munity,” said Christine Pe- ters, Senior Manager, Dressage Olympic/Para- lympic Program. “We know that it may have come as a surprise that we needed help, but as soon as we asked, the community answered. The challenge from the Christoff Family Foundation, prompt- ing donations like this one from Vicky and Nexolia


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