Endurance reserve called into GB World Champs team
Britain’s outset reserve for the World Endurance Championships has been called into the squad next an injury to some other rider’s horse.
With the championships solely days away, Endurance GB has announced that Nikki Malcolm’s horse, Khartoum amongst a K, has been withdrawn due to a child soft tissue injury.
First reserve Catriona Luna as well as her horse, Leila, cause got been called upward as well as volition last travelling to Euston Park inwards Suffolk shortly.
“We are extremely disappointed for Nikki as well as particularly pitiable for her that this has occurred as well as so to a greater extent than or less the event,” said Chairman of selectors Di Latham.
“We are fortunate, however, to cause got a back-up of rigid reserves. Catriona as well as Leila cause got been preparation hard, are on practiced shape as well as convey a wealth of sense to the team. We conk along to last confident that nosotros cause got a rigid team, capable of securing a practiced number to brand Great United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland proud of our athletes. We are all excited nigh having the Championships on dwelling soil, giving endurance enthusiasts the chance to back upward their squad from the front end line”.
The Longines FEI CEI 4* World Endurance Championships takes house from Saturday, August 25, at Euston Park close Newmarket, Suffolk. The 160km race across the undulating Suffolk countryside volition come across nigh 150 riders trouble upward amongst upward to twoscore countries represented. Among contenders vying for the exceed location at the 14th footing entitle trial volition last defending footing champion Maria Alvarez Ponton of Spain, as well as the United Arab Emirates, winners of the squad gilt medal at the 2010 footing championships.
The riders that volition stand upward for Great Britain, inwards alphabetical order, are:
- Alice Beet from Surrey riding Adara Sauveterre
- Tricia Hirst from Mid Wales riding Madjin des Pins
- Annette Masterson from Staffordshire riding El Sabio
- Catriona Luna from Somerset riding Leila
- Lesley-Ann Parker from Cambridgeshire riding Velvet Echo
- Christine Yeoman from Somerset riding LM Crazy Girl
- First Reserve – Beccy Broughton-Booker from Nottinghamshire riding Tawmarsh Muharram
- Second Reserve – Emma Finnie riding Sha Ali
- Third Reserve Equus caballus – LM Greyson
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