GREAT BRITAIN DRAWN 1st TO JUMP TOMORROW AT HICKSTEAD

Thursday 19 July 2012

Rob Hoekstra, World Class Performance Manager for Showjumping has announced his team for the 7^th and UK Leg of the Nations Cup at Hickstead tomorrow, the 20^th July.

Great Britain have been first to jump of the eight nations contesting the competition and the team along with their order of appearance will be:

William Funnell, from Dorking with Julie Slade’s 9 year-old British bred chestnut gelding Billy Angelo.

Hampshire based Peter Charles will partner Olga White and Team Murka’s 11 year-old chestnut stallion Murka’s Nevada VI.

Tina Fletcher from Faringdon, Oxon will be joining the squad with Lady Pauline Harris’ 13 year-old chestnut gelding Hello Sailor owned by Lady Pauline Harris.

John Whitaker from Huddersfield with his wife Clare’s British Bred 10 year-old bay stallion Argento.

The venues and dates for the series in 2012 are as follows:
La Baule               10-13^th May (11^th May Nations Cup)
Rome                    24-27^th May (25^th May Nations Cup)
St Gallen              31^st May – 3^rd June (1^st June Nations Cup)
Rotterdam          20-24^th June (22^nd June Nations Cup)
Aachen                 3-8^th July (5^th July Nations Cup)
Falsterbo             12-15^th July (13^th July Nations Cup)
Hickstead            19-22d July (20^th July Nations Cup)
Dublin                  15-19^th August (17^th August Nations Cup)

For 2012 the eight nations contesting the series are Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, The Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland.

For further information on the CSIO5* show at Hickstead please visit www.hickstead.co.uk

The Nations Cup takes place on Friday 20^th July and the Grand Prix on Sunday 22^nd July .

FEI TV will be showing live footage from the event.

To access this please visit www.feitv.org The programme will also be shown at a later date on both Eurosport and Horse & Country TV. Please visit www.britishshowjumping.co.uk and click on ‘whats on tv’ for broadcast times.

The British Showjumping Teams are supported by Exchequer and National Lottery funding via UK Sport.

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