The Tretorn Young Riders and the Children’s Team are announced for Bonheiden

Next week will see the Tretorn Young Riders along with the Children’s Team travel out to Bonheiden, Belgium to compete in their Nation Cup classes.

 

The Tretorn Young Rider team will consist of rider’s ages twenty one years and under riding horses and the five riders which will be heading out are:

Tretorn have kindly been sponsoring the Junior and Young Rider International Teams for a period of 3 years. Tretorn was founded in 1891 by Johan Dunker in Helsingborg, Sweden. In 1904 Tretorn were manufacturing around one million rubber boots a year. The manufacturing of rubber boots 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 rubber boots in Scandinavia and as well the third biggest producer in Europe of tennis balls. The Tretorn riding boot was launched during 2007. Tretorn is today owned by PUMA AG.

 

Also joining the Tretorn Team will be the Children Team which is made up of riders aged twelve to fourteen years old competing on horses. The team will consist of:

- Belgium based Charlotte Smet on Wietske II 
- Tyne and Wear’s Kerstin Deakin on Sunsolde 
- Cheshire’s Emily Ward on Witch 
- Shropshire’s Carmen Edwards on R Candy
- Berkshire’s Jordan Marshall on Don Ashbourne Z 

Both the Young Rider Nations Cup and the Childrens Nation Cup will take place on Saturday 21st May. For more infomation on the show please visit www.csi-bonheiden.be

The British Showjumping Teams are strongly supported by the UK Sport Lottery funded BEF World Class Programme.