Aussie jumping leader Ted Dwyer dies at 89
International showjumping course of report designer Ted Dwyer has died inward Commonwealth of Australia simply days earlier his 90th birthday.
Dwyer was too a coordinator of the FEI World Cup Jumping Pacific League in addition to a showjumping judge.
He lived inward Young, New South Wales together alongside his wife, Judy in addition to their 2 sons on a farm that had been inward his identify unit of measurement since 1868. Ted was a livestock in addition to crop farmer, in addition to he in addition to Judy, an accomplished four-in-hand driver, too produced Hackney horses at their Ellmore Stud.
Dwyer was an FEI international course of report designer in addition to Jumping estimate in addition to was instrumental inward developing FEI World Cup Jumping competitions inward New Zealand in addition to South-East Asia. He was the coordinator of the FEI World Cup Pacific League for 25 years, from its inception until his retirement at the 2003 Final inward Las Vegas. He helped entrance hall the FEI World Cup commission members for the institution of the South-East Asian League, the 13th league inward the world.
He owned several successful jumping horses, including Ocean Foam, the Equus caballus ridden yesteryear Kevin Bacon on the Australian squad who finished 7th at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games.
He officiated every bit both a course of report designer in addition to a estimate all over Commonwealth of Australia in addition to New Zealand, every bit good every bit much of South-East Asia, including designing courses for the Xanthus Show Jumping Open serial from 1991-1994, the 2nd and 4th Asian Show Jumping Championships in addition to the 1995 Chiang Mai South-East Asian Games.
Over a 40-year period, Dwyer was too a contributor to several magazines inward Commonwealth of Australia in addition to New Zealand in addition to wrote 2 books, Show Jumping Down Under (1972) in addition to Show Jumping inward Australia (2005).
British equestrian journalist Alan Smith, who worked closely alongside Dwyer on the FEI World Cup circuit, remembers him alongside slap-up fondness.
“The huge contribution that Ted has made to present jumping inward Commonwealth of Australia in addition to inward parts of South-East Asia, where he is something of a godfather figure, would hold upwards difficult to exaggerate,” he wrote inward a foreword to Show Jumping inward Australia.
The duet were together at a political party on a cruise send during the 1989 FEI World Cup Final inward Tampa, Florida. Thinking it powerfulness larn chilly on the boat afterward inward the evening, Dwyer asked ane of the organisers if he should get got a jumper, in addition to was told yesteryear a real alarmed lady that no horses were allowed on board!
Dwyer was awarded the FEI Medal of Honour inward 1998, iii years after the Governor General had presented him alongside the Order of Commonwealth of Australia Medal (OAM) inward recognition of his “services to equestrian sport both nationally in addition to internationally”. He was inducted into the Equestrian Commonwealth of Australia Hall of Fame inward 2011.
“The FEI World Cup exists inward its introduce cast inward Commonwealth of Australia thank you lot to the dedication in addition to passion of Ted Dwyer,” said John Roche, FEI World Cup Director. “The sport inward Commonwealth of Australia owes a lot to Ted’s dynamic efforts in addition to enthusiasm. Our thoughts are alongside Ted’s identify unit of measurement in addition to friends at this miserable time. He volition hold upwards much missed.”
Dwyer’s funeral volition hold upwards held on Midweek fifteen May at Catholic Church inward Young at 11.30am.
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