U.S. Para Dressage Team Passes First Horse Inspection At Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020

Thursday, August 26, 2021 | Debbie Schumann

Tokyo, Japan The U.S. Para Dressage Team presented their horses for the First Horse Inspection of the Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 before the Ground Jury of Anne Praine (FRA), Sarah Leitch (GBR), Katherine Lucheschi (ITA), Sue Cunningham (AUS), Kjell Myhre (NOR), Jeannette Wolfs (NED), Marc Urban (BEL), and President Marco Orsini (GER) at Equestrian Park in Tokyo, Japan. All four horses passed the inspection as the team looks ahead to their first day of competition, Thursday, August 26, which will feature Grade II, IV, and V Individual Tests.

USA Para Dressage Horse Inspections Tokyo 2020

USA Para Dressage Horse Inspections Tokyo 2020

The team is comprised of Rebecca Hart(Wellington, Fla.) and El Corona Texel, a 12-year-old KWPN gelding owned by Rowan O’Riley, Beatrice de Lavalette (Lake Worth, Fla.) and Clarc, a 14-year-old KWPN gelding owned by Elizabeth Nicholas de Lavalette, Kate Shoemaker(Wellington, Fla.) and Solitaer 40,a 14-year-old Hanoverian gelding owned by Kate, Craig, Deena Shoemaker, and Roxanne Trunnell(Wellington, Fla.) and Dolton, a nine-year-old Hanoverian gelding owned by Flintewoode Farms LLC Karin Flint, and led by Chef d’Equipe Michel Assouline and Team Leader Laureen Johnson.

Competition for Grade II will begin at 4:00 p.m. JST/3:00 a.m. EST, followed by Grade IV competition at 5:50 p.m. JST/4:50 a.m. EST, and Grade V at 8:30 p.m. JST/7:30 a.m. EST.

Scene from the first horse inspection at the Tokyo Paralympics Competition gets underway tomorrow with Grades II, IV, and V!

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Horse Inspections USA Para Dressage Team Tokyo 2020

Horse Inspections USA Para Dressage Team Tokyo 2020