Future of endurance: Group holds first meeting

The grouping charged alongside charting the side past times side decade for the sport of endurance has held its get-go teleconference, alongside chairman Andrew Finding talking of a determined commitment over its mission.

The Endurance Strategic Planning Group was ready later a round-table session at the FEI headquarters inward Lausanne, Switzerland, on July 24.

That coming together was called over growing concerns voiced past times only about European federations over a lamentable litany of drug infractions inward endurance inward the past times 8 years, alongside a venture bulk originating from the Middle East.

Most song on the number was the Swiss Equestrian Federation, which wrote to the FEI most the issue, noting drug concerns as well as “tremendous” fracture rates.

The Swiss federation noted that, from 2010 to 2012, 41 endurance horses were institute to hold upwards positive for banned substances.

Notably, it said, 82.9 per cent of the cases inward endurance originated from the FEI’s zone VII – the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, as well as Jordan.

The missive of the alphabet asserted that such breaches indicated “a clear disrespect of for sure riders, trainers as well as veterinarians concerning the welfare of horses inward sport as well as the FEI code of conduct”.

The federation called on the FEI to convey immediate measures to growth medication controls, peculiarly inward nations known to get got a high frequency of positive examination results.

The Endurance Strategic Planning Group that arose out of the round-table coming together held its get-go coming together via teleconference on Tuesday, alongside Britain’s Finding joined past times Dr Brian Sheahan, of Australia, Jean-Louis Leclerc, of France, Saeed Al Tayer, of the United Arab Emirates, Joe Mattingly, of the United States, the FEI’s Ian Williams, who is managing director of endurance, as well as Graeme Cooke, who is the managing director of the FEI’s veterinary services.

Finding said: “Together, nosotros reviewed the FEI Bureau’s direction to us as well as considered the mission disputation nosotros get got been given.

“We get got all agreed that nosotros are comfortable alongside accepting that mission disputation as well as working to attain the objective, which is to practise an surround inside which athletes compete inward the spirit of fair play piece horses compete inward partnership alongside human athletes where at all times their welfare is of paramount concern.”

The grouping is tasked alongside coming upwards alongside a strategic innovation for endurance over the side past times side decade, alongside a framework that ensures the sport adheres to as well as promotes the highest Clean Sport standards as well as meets the FEI Code of Conduct for the Welfare of the Horse.

“This was a actually expert as well as positive coming together inward which all members of the grouping provided valuable input alongside a determined commitment,” Finding said.

“Every fellow member has undertaken to add together particular inward their surface area of special insight as well as noesis over the side past times side ii weeks.

“We volition review this function when nosotros come across for our get-go face-to-face session inward the get-go few days of October.

“Progressively through September as well as Oct nosotros volition develop the draft strategic ‘Plan inward Outline’, which nosotros volition break at the endurance session which volition convey house on vi Nov inward Montreux, Switzerland, inward the framework of the FEI General Assembly.

“As nosotros movement through our work, Dr Brian Sheahan as well as Ian Williams volition hold upwards consulting the FEI Endurance Committee.

“Our aim is to proceed the ‘Plan inward Outline’ brief, uncomplicated as well as strategic inward concept.

“There volition hold upwards to a greater extent than function to hold upwards done to develop the strategy as well as thus to develop an operational plan; nosotros aspect this to hold upwards completed later the FEI endurance session inward Nov as well as later nosotros get got consulted all national federations on the strategic approach.”

Sheahan added: “I am real happy. We get got already made a large pace forward.”

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