Cayman Islands equestrian is about to stage one of its biggest events.
The Cayman Islands Equestrian Federation will be hosting the Fédération Equestre Internationale World Dressage Challenge on Saturday, 25 February, 2012. The show is to be held at the Cayman Islands Equestrian Centre.
Federation president Jane van der Bol states local riders are looking forward to holding their own in the event.
“The dressage challenge allows our Cayman riders to compete on an international level without leaving Cayman,” van der Bol said. “We have improved over the years and we are looking forward to a great competition on Saturday.”
Cayman has done quite well the last two years. Joe Jackson on Wild Apache won the adult title and Ashley Scaletta on Rambo nabbed the junior crown in 2010. Last year Mary McTaggart grabbed adult props on her horse Partenon while Polly Serpell was the top performing junior on My Shadow.
The event schedule sees a veterinarian inspection on Friday, 24 February, at 5pm with an award on offer for the best presented pony. The show itself takes place on Saturday starting from 9am with competition divided between adult and junior riders. The judges will have a brief discussion before the awards ceremony concludes the proceedings.
This year’s judges will be Ricardo Rojas of Costa Rica (who was here in 2011) and Mariano Santos of Spain. The competition is open to all federation members who have attained a qualifying score of 55 per cent or above in an approved dressage test.
Cayman is the second stop on the Caribbean section of the challenge. Judges were in Kingston, Jamaica this week and head to St. Andrew, Barbados next week. The last two stops in March are Santa Cruz, Trinidad and Devonshire, Bermuda.
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