TRETORN YOUNG RIDERS HEAD TO POLAND
Tuesday 08 June 2010
A squad of Tretorn Young Riders will represent Great Britain in the CSIO3* taking place in Sopot, near Gdansk in Poland.
Led by Chef d’Equipe Corinne Bracken and accompanied by Team Vet John Killingbeck, the squad will contest the FEI Nations Cup taking place on Friday afternoon.
Twenty-one year-old William Whitaker, based in Whatton, Nottinghamshire with his uncle Michael, will ride the eleven year-old bay gelding Sarlino, a horse that is owned by William’s father Ian.
Twenty year-old Joe Clayton, also based at Michael Whitaker’s yard in Whatton, Nottinghamshire will partner his own eleven year old bay gelding Saveur.
They will be joined by twenty-one year-old Daniel Moseley. Daniel is currently based with William Funnell in Dorking, Surrey and he will ride Carol Toliver’s twelve year-old bay stallion, Kepi d’Elle.
Twenty-one year-old Philippa Dobby from Ormskirk in Lancashire will ride the nine year-old bay mare Nirvana d’Oc, owned by Philippa’s mother, Margaret Dobby.
The FEI Nations Cup takes place on Friday 11th June at 2.00pm GMT. You can follow the action at www.csio.sopot.pl.
Tretorn was founded in 1891 by Johan Dunker in Helsingborg, Sweden. In 1904 Tretorn was manufacturing around one million rubberboots a year. The manufacturing of rubberboots and tennis balls continued until 1991 in Helsingborg, when they moved the production overseas, to Poland and other countries. Tretorn is today one of the leading manufacturers of rubberboots in Scandinavia and as well the third biggest producer in Europe of tennis balls. Tretorn riding boot was launched during 2007. Tretorn is today owned by PUMA AG.
The British Showjumping Teams continue to be strongly supported by the UK Sport Lottery funded BEF World Class Programme.