Jockeys to team up with showjumpers at Olympia
A particular jumping contest betwixt apartment together with jumps jockeys volition accept house at Olympia this year, and the Injured Jockeys Fund is to hold upwards the London International Horse Show’s charity of the year.
The present runs at Olympia from Dec xvi to 22, together with insurer Markel International, is sponsoring the Markel Champions Challenge, on Friday, Dec 19.
A squad of 3 apartment jockeys together with 1 present jumper volition compete against 3 fountain jockeys together with 1 present jumper inwards a serial of unlike challenges including jumps together with pony social club agency games. Those taking purpose will be announced early on inwards the autumn, together with the starters are probable to include Markel’s Ambassador jockeys, Sam Thomas together with William Buick.
Lisa Hancock, Chief Executive of the Injured Jockeys Fund, said it was the IJF’s 50th anniversary year. “The Markel Champions Challenge for the Injured Jockeys Fund is certain to render a fun – together with highly competitive – spectacle for the crowd, summation volition aid heighten awareness of the of import function nosotros produce at the IJF inwards supporting injured jockeys together with their families.”
London International Horse Show Olympia Show Director Simon Brooks-Ward said the particular competition is certain to be “a slap-up spectacle which is certain to entertain the Olympia audience, too every bit hopefully raising lots of coin for a real worthy cause”.
The Injured Jockeys Fund was founded inwards 1964 next the devastating accidents to Tim Brookshaw, together with hence Paddy Farrell inwards the 1964 Grand National. The Fund has since spent to a greater extent than than £17 1000000 inwards helping to a greater extent than than 1000 jockeys whose injuries conduct hold forced closed to of them to order upwards riding. The aim of the IJF is to keep this ethos amongst continuing back upwards for existing beneficiaries together with to render immediate together with effective aid to all newly injured jockeys inwards whatsoever agency is appropriate to ensure a reasonable lineament of life for them together with their families. The IJF has 2 time out together with rehabilitation centres, Oaksey House inwards Berkshire, opened yesteryear Patron HRH The Princess Royal inwards 2009, together with Jack Berry House inwards Yorkshire, gear upwards to opened upwards inwards the Spring of 2015.
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