The 2010 All Tech FEI World Equestrian Games will be held September 25- October 10th at the Kentucky Horse Park. This will be the first time the games have left Europe to be held in the United States. The World Equestrian Games is a fairly new equestrian competition. The first games was held in 1990 in Stockholm, Sweden. Since 1990 the World Equestrian Games (WEG) have been held every four years (similar to the Olympic schedule). The original competition was held covering six disciplines Jumping, Dressage, Eventing, Driving, Vaulting, and Endurance. Throughout the years more have been added. Reining was introduced in to the games in 2002. 2010 will be the first games to include Para Dressage the newest FEI discipline. The short/list nominated entries for the United States have been named.
Tina Konyot with Calecto V, 12-year-old Danish Warmblood stallion
Todd Flettric with Otto, a 14 year old Danish Warmblood gelding
Katherine Bateson -Chandler with Nartan, a 15 year old KWPN gelding
Steffen Peters with Ravel, a 12 year old KWPN gelding
Catherine Haddad with Winyamaro, a 10 year old Hannovarian gelding
Pierre St. Jacques with Lucky Tiger, a 15 year old Danish Warmblood gelding
Sue Blinks with Encinitas, a 12 year old Dutch Warmblood gelding
Jan Ebeling with Rafalca, a 13 year old Oldenburg mare
The official “Team” and alternates will be named sometime before the September 22nd deadline. I did notice a good showing for the geldings, however, something in my underdog gut makes me want to root for the mare at the bottom of the list.
My big question is, Are you going? For me and my finances and this bad economy, pretty much any extra money I have goes into my farm. My horses come first, so that means I will be viewing the games the best I can from home. I will be doing some research to see how to best follow the games and will let you know what I find out. I would love to hear from those of you going to the games and what types of difficulties you have been having getting tickets, etc.
References
The AllTech FEI 2010 World Equestrian Games
