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Equestre Internationale News
'Last
chance¹ competition for drivers in 's-Hertogenbosch
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>From
25 to 28 March the Brabanthallen in Os-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands,
will host the 37th edition of the Indoor Brabant Horse Show. Indoor
Brabant was one of the first horse shows that introduced indoor
carriage driving many years ago and has been part of the FEI World
Cup Driving since the start in 2001/2002. With only one World
Cup event to go after the CAI-W Os-Hertogenbosch, the performances
during Indoor Brabant will for an important part determine the
final standings.
Indoor
Brabant-winner 2003 Boyd Exell (3rd in the standings) will drive
a borrowed team of Cobs again and must end on the 3rd place or
higher in order to climb in the standings. Hungary¹s Jozsef
Dobrovitz (7th) and home driver Ijsbrand Chardon (9th) will also
get their last opportunity to win World Cup points. German drivers
Christoph Sandmann (4th) and Rainer Duen (8th) will compete at
the World Cup event in Gothenburg (Sweden), but are eager to score
as much points as possible in Os-Hertogenbosch. If Sandmann wins
on Sunday, he will automatically claim the second position in
the final standings. The wild card has been allocated to 31-year
old Mark Weusthof. Weusthof successfully competed during the Indoor
World Cup season 2002/2003, where he came second in ¹s-Hertogenbosch.
Weusthof did not qualify for this season¹s World Cup circuit,
but the sympathetic driver from Twente (eastern Holland) regularly
competes at indoor events in the Netherlands and Germany.
The warm up competition takes place on Saturday 27 March at 19.00
hrs and will be broadcasted live on Dutch television (Nederland
2).The World Cup competition is scheduled on Sunday evening 28
March at approximately 20.00 hrs.
Created
in 2001, the Driving World Cup has provided an innovative new
style of competition for indoor events, with courses combining
marathon and cone driving obstacles. The 2003/2004 season of the
World Cup includes seven events with eight competitions: Stuttgart
(GER), Stockholm (SWE), Mechelen (BEL) in 2003; Leipzig (GER),
two competitions in Vigo (ESP), 's-Hertogenbosch (NED) and Göteborg
(SWE) in 2004. The winner of the first two editions of the World
Cup was Michael Freund
(GER).
Relevant
internet addresses:
CAI-W Os-Hertogenbosch: www.indoorbrabant.nl
World Cup Driving: www.worldcupdriving.com
FEI: www.horsesport.org
www.horsesport.org
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