TRETORN YOUNG RIDERS SECOND IN WIERDEN
Saturday 06 June 2009
The Tretorn Young Rider International Team, led by Chef d’Equipe Corinne Bracken, took second place in last night’s Nations Cup in Wierden, The Netherlands.
With all four team members jumping clear in the first round, Great Britain went confidently into the second sharing pole position with the home nation.
The second round saw Matthew Sampson (Chianti Classico) lower two fences for eight faults, Sam Hutton (Olympia III) had a very unlucky four faults and both Joe Clayton (Saveur) and Tim Page (Quentin Tarrantino) emulated their first round clears.
Victory went to the Netherlands who finished on a zero score, Spain took third position.
CSIOY Wierden NED
Nations Cup
1st The Netherlands 0 penalties
2nd Great Britain – 4 penalties
Matthew Sampson Chianti Classico – 0/8
Sam Hutton Olympia III – 0/4
Joe Clayton Saveur – 0/0
Tim Page Quentin Tarrantino – 0/0
3rd Spain 5 penalties
4th Belgium 9 penalties
5th Germany 12 penalties
6th Italy 16 penalties
Earlier in the day the Tretorn Junior International Team finished in seventh place in the Junior Nations Cup which was again won by the home nation, The Netherlands with Norway taking second and Germany in third. Jessie Drea (Tucatie) lowered a single pole for four faults, Henry Lacey (Cardoso 12) finished with nine penalties, Graham Gillespie (USA Today) finished his round with twelve and George Whitaker (Carnaval Path) jumped a clear round.
Results from Wierden can be viewed at www.dutchyoungsterfestival.nl.
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.