Team GB’s Lee Pearson will not compete in the Paris Paralympics — the first one he will miss since his debut at Sydney 2000. The 14-time para-equestrian gold medallist has been suspended amid an ongoing investigation into his alleged misconduct. 

para-equestrian team was announced for Paris: Paralympics GB named an all-female dressage team of Natasha Baker, Mari

Durward-Akhurst, Sophie Wells and Georgia Wilson for the Games.British dressage rocked again as top

The Netherlands were crowned as winners of the International Equestrian Federation Para Dressage European Championship after Frank Hosmar and Sanne Voets won their respective grades in Rotterdam.

The British team of Sophie Wells, Nicky Greenhill, Georgia Wilson and Mari-Durward-Akhurst finished second

on 221.302 per cent, with Greenhill, Wilson and Durward-Akhurst all making their major international

Paralympic champion Sophie Wells is eagerly looking ahead to this week's International Equestrian Federation (FEI) Para Dressage European Championships in Rotterdam, where three of her four team-mates in the British squad will be making their event debut.

All set to make their bows under the wing of Wells and C Fatal Attraction are Mari Durward-Akhurst with