TRETORN JUNIOR INTERNATIONAL TEAM TAKE SIXTH PLACE IN HAGEN

Friday 12 June 2009

TRETORN JUNIOR INTERNATIONAL TEAM TAKE SIXTH PLACE IN HAGEN

The Tretorn Junior International Squad took a credible sixth place in this afternoon's Nations Cup in Hagen, Germany.

First to go was Jessie Drea riding Shane Breen's chestnut gelding M Lorde D'elle who was clear in the first round and four faults in the second round.  Next to go was Joe Davison with his father Richard's chestnut mare Kildalton Holly who had eight faults in both rounds.
Graham Gillespie had an unforunate round on his mother Beth's bay stallion USA Today and was eliminated, but fought back in the second round with just four faults at the last. Anchor woman was Alison Barton with Simon Paul's bay gelding Saffier van de Brandkreek had a score of four and eight leaving this young team in sixth place.

Chef d'Equipe Corinne Bracken said "Without doubt it was the biggest, most technical track they have jumped all year, against some of the other country's top riders and our riders put up a good performance".

Full team results 

1st   France 0
2nd  Netherlands 12
=3rd   Germany 20
=3rd   Italy
5th   Sweden
6th   Great Britain
Jessie Drea - Milord D'Elle 0/4
Joseph Davison - Kildalton Holly 8/8*
Graham Gillespie - USA Today E/4
Alison Barton - Saffier van de Brandkreek 4/8

Grand Prix results :-
1st Stefanie Heins (NED)  - Jet du Mesnil 0/0  37.50
2nd Melanie Seiger (NED) - Alexandria 0/0 36.59
3rd Marcel Marschall (GER) - Vacharco 0/4 76.08
4th Carian Scudamore (GRB) - Angel III 0/4 36.52
5th Maurice Tebbel (GER) - Donna-Maria 3 0/4  38.13
6th Francesca Arioldi (ITA) - Lady Chanu 0/4 39.34

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.