TRETORN INTERNATIONAL YOUNG RIDER TEAM TAKE FIFTH SPOT IN HAGEN

Saturday 13 June 2009

The Tretorn Young Rider team finished fifth in the Nations Cup in Hagen, Germany on Saturday.

The team comprised of Jodie Ward with her mother Pennie’s grey gelding Caloux Z, who finished with a score of twelve penalties in the first round and sixteen in the second. Second to go was Tom Davison with his father Richard’s grey gelding Egano Star, scoring twelve in the first round and four faults in the second.  Third to go was Sam Hutton with Miss Al-Homaizi and Tony Newbery’s chestnut mare Olympia  III, who lowered four fences in the first round for a total of sixteen and two in the second to finish with eight.  Anchor woman Jemma Kirk  with her father Robert’s grey gelding Wexford had eight faults in the first and then went onto jump a foot perfect clear in the second.

CSIOY Hagen GER

Nations Cup

1st Germany 8 faults
2nd Italy 21 faults
3rd Netherlands 28 faults
4th Sweden 37 faults
5th Great Britain 44 faults
Jodie Ward - Caloux Z 12/16
Tom Davison - Egano Star 12/4
Sam Hutton - Olympia III 16/8
Jemma Kirk - Wexford 8/0

In the Young Rider Grand Prix on Sunday Joe Clayton took fourth place with his own bay gelding Saveur after clocking up a single time fault in the first round.

CSIOY Hagen GER

Grand Prix
1st   Patrick Stuhlmeyer  (GER) - Last Chance 9    0/4  41.29 secs
2nd  Wesley Heijdens (NED) - Pavarottie H 0/4   42.18 secs
3rd  Cagri Basel (TUR) - L.B. Prevail 1 time fault 78.12 secs
4th  Joe Clayton (GBR) - Saveur 1 time fault  78.16 secs
5th   Gerban Morsink (NED) - Ontario 1 time fault  79.21 secs
6th   Melissa Vanzani (ITA) - Silver Boy 1 time faults 79.44 secs

For full results please go to :- www.psi-sporthorses.de

The British Junior and Young Rider International Squads are kindly sponsored by Tretorn. Tretorn was founded in 1891 by Johan Dunkar in Helsingborg, Sweden. In 1904 Tretorn was 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 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.

The Squads are further supported by John Whitaker International with British Team branded riding hats, the British Show Jumping Association and the World Class Development programme which is Lottery funded through UK Sport.