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The Longines Royal International Horse Show: Sussex Living

15 Sunday Jul 2012

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[Sussex Living] Just days before the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games, some of the best riders in the world will be at Hickstead for the Longines Royal International Horse Show – the official show of the British Horse Society.

With last year’s victory by the German team, the home side will be doing their utmost to claim back the honours

With last year’s victory by the German team, the home side will be doing their utmost to claim back the honours

The world’s top eight showjumping nations will arrive at the All England Jumping Course in West Sussex for the FEI Nations Cup™ of Great Britain. This flagship event – with a E200,000 prize fund – will be held on Friday 20 July, and following last year’s victory by the German team the home side will be doing their utmost to claim back the honours.

Sunday’s finale class, the Longines King George V Gold Cup, is one of the most sought after international Grand Prix classes in the world. A win at the show will no doubt bolster a nation’s confidence and morale just before the Olympics, so expect to see one of the most competitive fields in Hickstead’s history. Olympic course builders Bob Ellis and Kelvin Bywater will also be creating the courses for Hickstead, giving riders a final chance to jump round their tracks just before the Games.

The international classes start on Thursday 19 July, with the Amlin Plus Eventing Grand Prix. This class sees event riders and showjumpers go head to head round a course of coloured poles and fixed rustic fences. Last year, Gary Parsonage made history by winning the class for the fourth time – will a showjumper take the honours this time?

Saturday is a very special day at Hickstead. Not only do we have the Templant Events Queen Elizabeth II Cup, the pinnacle of national grand prix classes, but it’s also Ladies’ Day at Hickstead, held in support of Variety, the Children’s Charity. Ten of the most fashionably dressed visitors will be chosen by Hickstead’s team of selectors, and invited into the International Arena for the final judging.

There, celebrity judge Barbara Windsor will pick the best dressed lady and two runners-up, with……

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Sussex Living
11th July, 2012


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London 2012 Olympics: Germany announces equestrian teams for Games: The Telegraph

14 Saturday Jul 2012

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[Telegraph] Germany, the major challengers for gold in all three equestrian teams, announced its dressage and jumping squads after final selection trials at Aachen.  

All smiles: Helen Langehanenberg is going to London 2012  Photo: AP

All smiles: Helen Langehanenberg is going to London 2012 Photo: AP

An all-new dressage trio of Helen Langehanenberg (Damon Hill), Kristina Sprehe (Desperados) and Dorothee Schneider (Diva Royal) comprises horses with fast improving form, suggesting the loss of wonder-horse Totilas due to the illness of his rider, Matthias Rath, does not significantly dent team medal chances.

All three scored personal bests at Aachen, with Langehanenberg and Sprehe scoring in the mid 80 per cents in the freestyle kur to music.

The German show jumping team is Marcus Ehning (Plot Blue or Copin van de Broy), Christian Ahlmann (Codex One or Taloubet Z), Janne-Friederike Meyer (Cellagon Lambrasco), only the second woman ever to ride on the German jumping squad, and Philipp Weishaupt (Monte Bellini).

Their jumping pool was depleted by horse injuries and the late decisions of Ludger Beerbaum (Gotha) and Meredith Michael-Beerbaum (Bella Donna) to withdraw horses from……

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Telegraph, London 2012
12th July, 2012


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Horse rescued from River Douglas in Wigan: BBC News

14 Saturday Jul 2012

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[BBC News] Firefighters who rescued a horse from a flooded Greater Manchester river have said the animal was “safe and well”.

Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service said the rescue was "difficult" .  BBC News

Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service said the rescue was “difficult”. BBC News

Crews were called to Martland Park, Wigan, on Tuesday morning after receiving reports of a horse being unable to get out of the River Douglas.

Water rescue teams worked for three hours with ropes and an inflated fire hose to rescue 16-year-old mare Molly. Station manager Ben Levy said the rescue was “difficult” due to “the heavy rain we’ve had recently”.

Molly was helped out of the river by firefighters

Molly was helped out of the river by firefighters

He said members of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) had initially attempted to rescue the horse, but had been unsuccessful, so had called Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service for help.

Two specialist water rescue crews attended the incident and used the hose “to create a barrier to guide Molly to a safe area before getting strops round her,” he said.

He added the mare had been moved down the river to a “suitable spot” before being walked out of the water. “It took three hours in total to rescue Molly from the river [which] was quite deep because it was flooded due to the heavy rain we’ve had recently,” he said.

“The rescue was difficult not only due to flooded river, but also because of the very steep and muddy banks, but she came out and is safe and well thanks to the efforts of our crews and the RSPCA.”

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BBC News
11th July 2012


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Unlike Gatcombe Park, the Olympic equestrian competition will survive the rain: Telegraph

12 Thursday Jul 2012

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[Telegraph] Given all the criticism about limited space, expense, absence of legacy, damage and lock-out of local users, Greenwich Park’s most redeeming feature could also be its most unexpected: the ability to run an Olympic cross-country when other major venues have sunk under mud.

Jeremy Edwards, Locog’s Equestrian Venue Manager, says Greenwich has huge advantages over the UK’s annual “pop-up” trials

Jeremy Edwards, Locog’s Equestrian Venue Manager says Greenwich has huge advantages over the UK’s annual “pop-up” trials  (Photo: Getty Images)

Gatcombe Park usually welcomes unseasonal rain to take the sting out of its quick-drying parkland but even this has fallen victim to waterlogging.

It is, though, hard to find a senior equestrian who thinks the Olympic competition will suffer the same fate. Though not involved with 2012, Mike Etherington-Smith, course designer at Sydney 2000 and typhoon-prone Hong Kong 2008 said: “It’s still three weeks away. There are a lot of experts down there with enough experience of the sections of the park that get wet to have dealt with it already.”

Seventy days’ worth of fixtures have been rained-off since March. It has cost national governing body British Eventing (BE) £750,000 in rider-entry abandonment fees; it may now extend the national season to November to catch up. There are huge losses for small events that operate on a shoestring anyway and some retailers look for half their annual turnover at headline fixtures. The British eventing team might have looked slightly different if Badminton had run and given a prodigy the opportunity to impress.

But Greenwich is not like any other horse trial, and that is why its sporting programme should survive. There are plenty of tarmac and hardcore tracks to move spectators about, no horseboxes or spectator cars to be towed in and out, no pedestrian-heavy shopping villages, and the park has naturally good drainage. A positive Jeremy Edwards, Locog’s equestrian venue manager, says this gives Greenwich huge advantages over the UK’s annual “pop-up” trials. One of his media room colleagues added with equal optimism: “If any site can take a battering, it is us.”

Edwards was venue manager at Sydney 2000, a permanent build. Greenwich has presented different challenges but he says he is “happy with progress”.

He said: “I have seen no…..

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by Pippa Cuckson – the Telegraph’s equestrian correspondent
July 11th, 2012


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Equestrian selection sparks controversy in Oz: Stuff.co.nz

09 Monday Jul 2012

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[stuff.co.nz] ”You have to love keeping it in the family!” pronounced Lyndal Oatley when she heard her cousin Kristy was joining her on the Australian Olympic equestrian team to compete in London.  

Some riders claim the selection process favours Kristy Oatley

Some riders claim the selection process favours Kristy Oatley

But, in the world of dressage, the love didn’t spread far at all.

Instead, the selection of the two Oatleys – granddaughters of the billionaire Bob Oatley, a sponsor of grand prix events in the sport in Australia – has exposed bitter tensions at the perceived influence of wealth and patronage in the sport.

Kristy Oatley gained her spot at the expense of Hayley Beresford under a discretionary selection process. Yet, only two weeks ago, Beresford was ranked 111th in the world, well ahead of Oatley’s ranking of 283, as judged by the Federation Equestre Internationale. Both women represented Australia in Beijing.

Then, last Thursday Beresford confirmed form, too, was on her side, beating Kristy Oatley in Aachen in Germany – only hours before the Court of Arbitration in Sport, sitting in Sydney, closed the final legal door to her Olympic dream. She finished the event in tears.

”I am deeply devastated and at this moment cannot find the words to explain the selection process,” she said on Facebook.

Beresford last night told the Sydney Morning Herald Lyndal was clearly the best rider but that selectors were biased towards Kristy.

Other riders are speaking out, claiming the selection process was altered to favour Kristy Oatley, who was added to the shadow Olympic team after it had been finalised despite not having competed for……

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Andrew Stevenson & Louise Hall
Stuff.co.nz


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Clone of ‘best ever horse’ Gem Twist is bought by Olympic show jumping owner: Telegraph

08 Sunday Jul 2012

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[The Telegraph] Olga White, owner of show jumper Peter Charles’s London Olympic ride Murka’s Vindicat, has bought a cloned yearling of 1988 Olympic silver medallist Gem Twist, regarded by many as the best equine physical specimen the sport has ever seen.

London Olympian Peter Charles will have the opportunity to ride a replica of Gem Twist Photo: PA

London Olympian Peter Charles will have the opportunity to ride a replica of Gem Twist Photo: PA

The International Equestrian Federation (FEI) recently relaxed constraints on the participation of clones though the yearling, Murka’s Gem, is primarily aimed at joining Team Murka’s breeding programme in 2013.

“It is absolutely unbelievable that we have a perfectly entire clone of Gem Twist,” said White.

“For my rider, Peter Charles, this is a dream come true. A few years ago we would not even have dreamed of it.

“Gem Twist was a horse with a heart of gold who would never say die. This is what makes a good show jumper into a great show jumper.”

Gem Twist was owned and bred by US show jumping legend Frank Chapot. The horse won team and individual silver under Greg Best at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and the “world’s best horse” title at the 1990 Stockholm World Equestrian Games.

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By Pippa Cuckson
2:56PM BST 07 Jul 2012


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