France rates chances in WEG endurance contest

Endurance riders taste a canter on the beach every bit they cook for competition on Thursday.

The domicile squad of French Republic is with the favourites for the 160km endurance competition at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, together with its riders took to the sandy Kairon beach on Mon every bit they operate to peak their horses for Thursday’s contest.

The race volition starting fourth dimension from Sartilly together with volition characteristic 5 loops, which is slightly dissimilar for a modern race. For French squad passenger Jean-Philippe Frances, having 5 instead of half dozen loops volition add together merely about extra excitement.

“For a 160km race, nosotros typically produce half dozen loops together with then beingness out on the course of pedagogy for longer periods than commons volition demand riders to travel to a greater extent than patient earlier attempting a breakaway. This also adds to the technical appear of the competition every bit the horses volition convey to encompass a greater distance inwards social club to consummate each loop,” he says.

The dissimilar types of surfaces volition also pose a challenge on this specially technical course, said French national motorcoach Bénédicte Emond-Bon. “The horses volition run on the beach, pavement, fields, mortal paths, granite, grass, etc. Riders volition convey to travel extremely focused together with this has given the farriers a headache,” she said.

But Emond-Bon also acknowledged that her squad has several points inwards its favour. “The fact that we’ll travel competing on domicile reason volition give us extra motivation together with the squad has several horses with large outcome experience. The youngest is an eight-year-old but ridden yesteryear Jean-Philippe, who is a rattling experienced rider. So I believe that we’ll travel inwards the medal hunt fifty-fifty though the competition volition travel violent together with the principal objective is to brand certain all the horses complete the race.”

Endurance is the French team’s second-biggest outcome inwards damage of the give away of competitors together with the large crowds that are expected to plough out for the outcome volition give the squad a existent boost.

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