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Last Updated: May 14th, 2008 - 09:30:11 |
OLYMPIC GAMES 2008 BEIJING
British Eventing Team Announced for Beijing Olympic Games 2008
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| Mary King |
(Great Britain) - The British Olympic Association (BOA) has selected the Eventing riders to be part of Team GB for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
May 14, 2008, 09:25
Eventing News
FEI World Cup™ Eventing 2008: Oliver Townend Goes One Better at Chatsworth
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(Great Britain) - Oliver Townend went one better than last year and won the FEI World Cup™ Eventing qualifier at the Chatsworth Nissan International Horse Trials (9-11 May 2008), on Flint Curtis, in the process keeping his Olympic selection chances alive.
May 14, 2008, 09:18
Other Disciplines
Three-Time World Champion Named as Chef d’Equipe for the U.S. Endurance Squad
(Lexington, KY, USA) - After an extensive search, the USEF has named three-time World Endurance Champion and 1990 AHSA/Hertz Equestrian of the Year, Becky Hart, as Chef d’Equipe for the U.S. Endurance riders.
May 14, 2008, 08:21
OLYMPIC GAMES 2008 BEIJING
Hiroshi Hoketsu To Represent Japan At 67
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| Japanese dressage rider Hiroshi Hoketsu and Whisper 115, succesfully securing a slot at the 2008 Olympic Games for the Japanese Dressage team at the qualifier held in France last February (photo: Eva Salomon) |
Most people tailor their activity level to their age, each decade inviting a re-assessment of energy-levels, ability and ambition. But not Hiroshi Hoketsu. At 67, and 44 years after he finished in individual 40th place at the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Japanese horseman is going to give it another shot. Sure why not.....
May 13, 2008, 11:52
Dressage News
EquiChord and the PVDA Ride For Life Team Up For Gala Performance
(Leonardtown, Maryland, USA) - EquiChord is proud and honored to be donating its time to this year’s PVDA Ride for Life Gala Performance scheduled for Saturday, June 28th, 2008 at the Prince George Equestrian Center in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Among some of the evening’s highlights will be a Gala Dinner where four-time Olympic Gold Medal Champion, Nicole Uphoff-Selke will be the guest speaker. participants in the event will include Christopher Hickey, the 2007 Pan Am Games Gold Medalist, and Dr. Cesar Parra, a former Olympic and Pan Am Games participant. It will also feature various other entertaining exhibitions such as Megan Benjamin, World Equestrian Games’ Gold Medal vaulter; live musical
entertainment; Western reiners; quadrille drill teams, and many others.
May 12, 2008, 20:48
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