Opinion
I have been talking with the Olympia organising committee to try to include para dressage at the show in future. It features at other World Cup shows — there is a para freestyle class at Amsterdam and last year the Swedish para rider Felicia Grimmenhag gave a demonstration with Patrik Kittel at Gothenburg.
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