Team Murka and The World Class Programme U23 British Championships 2010

 

The competition is open to riders aged 23 years or under, with a total of twenty-four riders qualifying for the Championship final. The top eleven horse and rider combinations will come forward from three qualifying competitions, based on league points accumulated from each combinations results. Points will only be awarded to riders who are currently eligible for British Team selection.

 

In addition, the five horse and rider combinations from the 2010 British Young Rider Team will automatically qualify, together with the top six horse and rider combinations from the 2010 British Open World Class Development Championship, who are currently eligible for British Team selection. If any of these riders wish to jump a different horse at the Championship final they will be required to go through the qualifying process. Two further riders will be awarded wild cards to make up the final twenty-four riders.

 

The Championship final will carry a prize fund of £10,000 plus training vouchers and a style prize, which will be judged during the first round of the competition. The winner of the style prize will receive a voucher to the value of £1,500 towards the purchase of a saddle, for use in conjunction with the World Class Programme Master Saddler and the Pliance System.

 

As part of its sponsorship the BEF World Class Development Programme is funding the first place prize money at the qualifying competitions, as well as training vouchers to the first six prize winners, who are currently eligible for British Team selection.

 

Olga White of Team Murka commented, “Team Murka is proud to support the future of British Showjumping and to provide another exciting Championship for Olympia to showcase the best.”

 

“This class will showcase Britain’s very best under-23 showjumping talent at one of Britain’s very best shows,” added Will Connell, Performance Director, Equestrian World Class Programme. “I am very pleased that Team Murka have agreed to support the Class; Team Murka through Peter Charles and Pom d’Ami have been one of the mainstays of Great Britain’s success in the 2010 Meydan FEI Nations Cup series” 

 

Team Murka is committed to pursuing excellence in both yachting and showjumping. They are a privately funded team, which allows them the flexibility to move with sleek agility and keen awareness to identify and encourage talented athletes within both sporting disciplines. They are currently involved in upgrading the main Equestrian Complex of the Central Russian Army Sporting Club in Moscow, plus the organization & prize money for a series of Summer and Winter showjumping competitions held at the facility. The main objective of these competitions is to raise the level of involvement and the standard of showjumping in Russia, including children, junior & young riders, amateurs and professionals. They sponsor British rider, Peter Charles, his family and his Team, a national Russian rider and a young Russian rider, enabling her to gain international experience.

 

The World Class Development Programme is Lottery and Exchequer funded via UK Sport, and seeks to identify and develop talented athletes who have shown the potential to reach the world stage. The Programme underpins World Class Performance and, together with the Equine Pathway, they comprise the Equestrian World Class Programme, incorporating the three Olympic sports of dressage, eventing, showjumping and the Paralympic sport of para-equestrian dressage.

The Programmes work closely with the three British Equestrian Federation Olympic Member Bodies; British Dressage, British Eventing and the British Showjumping whose own training and competition programmes work hand in hand with the programmes run within World Class.

Qualifying Dates & Venues                                                                

Solihull Riding Club – Elite Show  - 30^th September – 2^nd October