Canada’s Robert Gielen to Ride in 4th World Championship

Salem Hamad Saeed Al Kitbi (UAE), with his horse Haleh in Pisa during the Longines FEI Endurance World Championship in May 2021. (Christophe Tanière/FEI)

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At 73 years old ‒ the oldest competitor in the event ‒ Gielen will ride the 160km endurance track aboard More Bang For Your Buck.

By: FEI Communications | January 31, 2023

With less than a month to go before the world’s best equine and human athletes gather in Butheeb (UAE) for the FEI Endurance World Championship 2022, the line-up has been confirmed with 129 combinations representing 37 nations ready to challenge for the 2022 individual and team world titles on Saturday 25 February 2023.

The 18th edition of the FEI Endurance World Championship, first held in 1986, boasts a remarkably gender balanced field of participants, with 63 female and 66 male athletes entered, and an equally impressive diversity in age range of the participants with 55 years separating youngest and first-time World Championship competitor 18-year-old Constanza Pacheco Diaz (ARG) from Canada’s 73-year old Robert Gielen, who will be taking part in his fourth World Championship!...

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Australia: Bright start to 2023 for endurance riders

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15/01/23

The 2023 endurance riding season kicks off this month when the Stirling’s Crossing Endurance Club holds its popular educational weekend at Imbil.

It is club’s fifth such event, and will be held at the the Stirling’s Crossing Endurance Complex in Derrier Road on the weekend of 28 and 29.

We anticipate that some aspects of the educational weekend will be on the Friday afternoon with members on hand to guide on setting up yards, and also instruction in how to trot your horse out for presentation to vets for gait assessment.

Stirling’s Crossing Endurance Complex is the same location as the 2023 Tom Quilty Gold Cup in June...

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https://noosatoday.com.au/news/15-01-2023/bright-start-to-2023-for-endurance-riders/

Australia: Riding Tall in the Saddle

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Erle Levey
07/01/2023

The past year for endurance riding has been much like the sport itself … be ready for the unexpected, be able to address the challenges, and enjoy the good times when they come along.

The times, when horse and rider are in perfect balance with each other and the environment for an experience like no other.

It has been year impacted by flooding and unseasonal wet weather as well as further outbreaks of Covid-19.

Queensland Endurance Riding Association had to contend with 11 events being cancelled, one cancelled part way through and others re-scheduled.

Despite all the difficulties caused by weather this year, ride organising committees provided 27 QERA events that supported a total of 1932 entries...

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https://noosatoday.com.au/news/07-01-2023/riding-tall-in-the-saddle/

India: Meet Sanskar Bachani Junior National Equestrian Championship endurance champion

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Vaibhav Bhardwaj
January 6 2023

Sanskar Bachani, a student of Class 11th of Jaishree Periwal International School, has the courage to pursue his dreams and made them come true. He worked really hard for the Junior National Equestrian Championship and got coaching with 20 other students for a 40km endurance ride.

Held at the Sagar Equestrian Sports Academy, it was a three-day event from 12th February 2022 to 14th February 2022. Sanskar won two Gold Medals in total, one in the individual category and the other in the team category, thereby becoming Junior Champion in the discipline of endurance.

Also from India, he is the youngest rider to clear the 60 km endurance in 2022 ranking 6th in this category with his senior competitors...

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https://thesportsgrail.com/meet-sanskar-bachani-junior-national-equestrian-championship-endurance-champion/

Top riders to take part in Dubai Crown Prince Endurance Cup

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Ride to take place on Saturday as festival reflects Hamdan’s love of equestrian sports

Published: January 05, 2023 18:52 Staff Report

Dubai: Some of the best riders and horses will be participating in the Dubai Crown Prince Endurance Cup, one of the most prominent events of the UAE’s endurance calendar, to be held at the Dubai International Endurance City at Seih Assalam on Saturday, January 7.

The 119-km Emirates Airline-sponsored Dubai Crown Prince Endurance Cup is the final and the most-prominent race of the Dubai Crown Prince Endurance Festival...

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Dubai Crown Prince Endurance Festival starts December 29th

MediaOffice.ae

27 December 2022

- Hamdan bin Mohammed’s equestrian achievements have contributed immensely to inspiring and attracting the young generation of UAE citizens to this sport
- The festival’s final event, the Dubai Crown Prince Endurance Cup, is sponsored by Emirates Airline, one the largest supporters of equestrian and racing in the country and worldwide
- Rashid bin Dalmook: The Dubai Crown Prince Endurance Festival reinforces the UAE’s global leadership in equestrian sports, particularly endurance racing

The 15th edition of the Dubai Crown Prince Endurance Festival, one of the most prominent events of the season’s equestrian calendar, will kick off on Thursday, 29 December 2022, at the Dubai International Endurance City.

Organised by the Dubai Equestrian Club in cooperation with the UAE Equestrian and Racing Federation, the festival includes four races. The final race will be held on Saturday, 7 January 2023. The 119km Dubai Crown Prince Endurance Cup, the festival’s final and most prominent race, is sponsored by Emirates Airline, one the largest supporters of equestrian and racing in the country and worldwide.

The festival will start on 29 December with the Dubai Crown Prince Endurance Race for Ladies. The next race, the Dubai Crown Prince Endurance Race for Private Stables, will be held on Tuesday, 3 January 2023. The races for Ladies and Private Stables will cover a distance of 101km. The Yamamah Endurance Cup for Mares will be held on 4 January and will cover a distance of 119km...

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https://mediaoffice.ae/en/news/2022/December/27-12/Dubai-Crown-Prince-Endurance-Festival-starts-December-29th

Great Britain: Meet the winning endurance rider who can tack up her horse with her toes

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H&H spends a morning with Philippa Verry at her yard situated between Dartmoor and Exmoor

Martha Terry
26 December, 2022 08:32

Philippa Verry is an extraordinary horsewoman, not that she’d like you to think of her as exceptional. She’s ridden at Olympia, hunted throughout her life with various packs, and – in her late 50s – turned her hand to endurance riding, and winning. All this without the use of her arms, since she was born without them as a side-effect of thalidomide. But Philippa has never let this apparent disadvantage deter her from achieving anything she wants in the equestrian world.

“I am not disabled,” she says, when H&H visits her Devon yard. “I can do whatever anyone else does. I have never had any problem doing anything; some jobs just take me longer. There’s always a way if you want to do something badly enough...”

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https://www.horseandhound.co.uk/features/philippa-verry-is-an-all-round-horseman-and-winning-endurance-rider-born-with-no-arms-due-to-thalidomide-side-effects-812435