Six-member Royal Team for UK ride

Gulf Daily News - Bahrain

SIX-member Royal Endurance Team is in the UK to participate in the Endurance Horserace Championship for the Kingdom of Bahrain Trophy scheduled for today at 7.30am (Bahrain time).

The Bahraini team will be captained by Bahrain Royal Equestrian and Endurance Federation (Breef) president Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa and includes Khalid Al Ruwaie, Jaffer Mirza, Ahmed Abdulla, Raed Mahmood and Ahmed Abdulsamad.

The event, which will be the first for the Bahraini team this year, will take place near Tottenham and consist of three races over 80 kms, 120 kms and 160 kms.

The Royal Endurance Team will take part in the 120-km race which will be divided into four stages. The first stage will be over 40 kms, 30 kms for the second and third stages while the fourth stage will be over 20 kms.

Shaikh Nasser, accompanied by team rider Shaikh Daij bin Salman Al Khalifa, reached the race venue yesterday and was briefed about the race.

The Breef chief also watched the veterinary tests of the team horses ahead of the championship.

Shaikh Nasser later met with members of the team and team manager Dr Khalid Ahmed Hassan and stressed on the importance of this race which is named after Bahrain. Dr Hassan said the Bahraini team is expected to impress in this competition.

Australia: Clare completes hat-trick

Invernell Times

LOCAL endurance rider, Clare Fleming and her purebred Arabian gelding Mangueira Moksha have continued on their winning way following the recent Eden Creek Endurance Ride.

The pair (pictured below) won the Best Conditioned Horse Award for the third time this season.

The two vets that presided over the weekends' activities, examined Moksha an hour after he had finished the 80km ride.

He was deemed to be the winner, based upon his ability to be able to go on, his fitness, freshness and soundness.

It was a big weekend, with close to 100 horses completing in either the 40km training ride or the 80km Endurance Ride.

Earlier Clare rode her Anglo mare Birramalee Queen of Hearts in the 40km ride.

They completed successfully, with a ride time of just over three hours. They were presented with a thermos as a completion prize.

On Sunday morning, the 80km ride started in the cold and wet track following an inch of rain on the Friday evening.

Clare decided to take it easy for this ride, as she is planning to ride Moksha in the 110km International Trans Tasman Endurance Ride on the June long-weekend in Nanango, Queensland.

Clare and Moksha did the ride in just under six hours.

They took it steady, so as to avoid any leg injuries or muscle soreness, which might arise from riding and sliding about in the muddy conditions. Moksha passed all the vet checks and successfully completed the ride. Much to her surprise, Clare finished second in the Lightweight division, and was third rider across the finish line.

At presentation, Clare was given two bags of horse feed and a feed bin for her prizes.

FRA: National CEI** Championship Festival - Ribiers France

Alice Proust
Endurance.Net
Buchel Benoit riding Miette Coco raced to finish first in the qualification race for the upcoming World Endurance Championship for Young Horses.

(Detailed results: Complete Result(PDF).


The race was the first event of the 3 day Endurance Festival which will culminate in the race for the 2007 CEI** Championship of France which will be held Saturday on the same course.


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New Zealand: May Endurance Newsletter (1.1 mb)

Portugal : Race Trial of European Championship and National Championship of Portugal

Alice Proust

On Saturday 28th of April was held on Barroca D'alva, a CEI*** 160 Km ride, which both serves as trial of the European Championship and National Portuguese Championship.

There were many riders from the international endurance riding field :
Jack Begaud (FRA), Joao Raposo (POR), Ana Margarida Costa (POR), Juan Paulo Branco (POR), Maria Alvarez (ESP), Jaume Punti Dachs (ESP), Leatitia Goncalves (FRA), Carlotta Dupas (FRA), Marilyn Lemoine (FRA), Grégoire Tilquin (FRA), Rui monteiro (POR).

The ride was divided in 5 loops of 38, 32, 29, 32 and 29 Kilometres and respective hold time of 30, 40, 50 and 50 minutes.


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Malaysia: King Among Contestants For YDSM-PENN Endurance

King Among Contestants For YDSM-PENN Endurance

SETIU, May 5 (Bernama) -- Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin is leading the Malaysian challenge at the YDSM-PENN equestrian endurance championship participated by 79 contestants at the Terengganu Equestrian Park at Lembah Bidong here today.

Tuanku Mizan who will be riding a horse named "Bartavia" will be up against 14 other contestants including one each from Brunei and Indonesia in the 160km race that ends at 3 pm tomorrow.

Other categories being contested for the championship organised by the Sultan Mizan Royal Foundation (YDSM) and PENN Endurance Equestrian Club are the 80km, 40km, and 26km.

The endurance race was flagged-off by the Terengganu Regent Advisory Council president Tengku Baderul Zaman Ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Mahmud.

The two-day championship is in preparation for the World Equestrian Endurance Championship 2008 to be hosted by Terengganu next year.

Tuanku Mizan will attend a banquet and present prizes to contestants at Kelab Teluk Warisan in Pulau Duyong tomorrow night.

-- BERNAMA

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Bahrain: Royal Victory!

ROYAL Endurance Team riders - Mohammed Abdulaziz, Ghazi Al Dossary and Jaffer Mirza - bagged the top three positions in the Endurance Horseride Championship held at the Bahrain International Endurance Village in Sakhir.

The championship, organised by the Bahrain Royal Equestrian and Endurance Federation, was the last event of the season and the second held at night.

The event was dominated by the Royal Endurance Team whose captain and Breef president Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa decided not to take part in the event.

Riders from Bahrain and other GCC countries participated in this race which was over 100 kms and divided into four stages with 30 kms for the first two stages, 25 kms for the third and 15 kms for the fourth and final stage.

Riding Farhooz, Abdulaziz came on top in four hours, 22.35 minutes. Al Dossary was second in 4:34:53 with Mirza third in 4:36:53.



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