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Federation
Equestre Internationale News
16
March 2004
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FEI World Cup Dressage Final: participation and wild cards
- Samsung Nations Cup in Wellington
- Eventing Committee Meeting in Pratoni
- Rumours of 'doping' in Eventing, a response from the Veterinary
Committee
- News from USA NF: NBC to televise Rolex Kentucky CCI 4*
FEI WORLD CUP DRESSAGE FINAL
DUESSELDORF 1- 4 APRIL 2004
PARTICIPATION AND WILD CARDS - Special Announcement
World Cup Director Joep Bartels and the FEI Dressage Committee
are delighted to announce the following participation in the World
Cup Dressage Final 2004
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The World Cup Champion, Debbie Mc Donald (USA) riding Brentina.
>From the Central European League, winner Elena Sidneva (Russia)
with Artax-Condor, and runner-up Irina Lys, who will ride Problesk
for Belarus.
Kristy Oatley-Nist (AUS) and Don Bolero 3 have been awarded a
wild card to represent the Pacific League.
Belinda Trussell and Royan II, winners of the Canadian League
Guenter Seidel and Nikolaus, runners up to titleholder Debbie
McDonald in the US League, and Leslie Morse who placed third on
Kingston.
The Western European League will conclude with the results of
the FEI World Cup qualifier at Indoor Brabant, 's-Hertogenbosch
(March 25-28).
Due to the exceptional high level shown during the Western European
league in this nineteenth season of the World Cup dressage, it
has been decided that in addition to the best eight in the points
standings, an additional three riders will be granted starting
places in the Final. This will however, take into account the
rule of a maximum of three riders per nation.
All
national federations have been informed of this decision in order
for them to prepare riders for possible starting places. The full
list will be announced directly after the final qualifier at Indoor
Brabant, which promises to be an edge- of- seat, thrilling finale
to the qualifying season and an exciting precursor to the Final,
which takes place in Duesseldorf from 1-4 April.
FEI World Cup Dressage Western European League
Standings after 6 of 7 competitions
1, Heike Kemmer GER 72
2, Hubertus Schmidt GER 64
3, Isabell Werth GER 58
4= Emma Hindle GBR and Anky van Grunsven NED
6, Sven Rothenberger NED 46
7, Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff GER 41
8, Edward Gal NED 39
9, Louise Nathhorst SWE 37
10, Nicole Ahlefeldt Laurvig-Lehn DEN 35
11=Gina Capellmann-Luetkemeier (GER) and Tinne Vilhelmsson (SWE)
29
13, Antoinette Falandt (NED) 27
14, Kyra Kyrklund (FIN) 25
For full standings visit www.horsesport.org
For further information on 's-Hertogenbosch, visit www.indoorbrabant.nl
World Cup Dressage Final: www.duesseldorf-masters.de
CANADA WINS OPENING COMPETITION OF THE SAMSUNG NATIONS CUP
SEASON IN WELLINGTON
Canada won won the $50,000 Samsung Nations' Cup, presented by
CN, at the CSIO 4* of Wellington, FL.(USA).
Held for the first time at night under the lights to simulate
the conditions the horses and riders will face at the 2004 Athens
Olympics, the Canadians and the Americans were tied after the
first round with each team incurring eight faults. Sitting in
third place was France with 12 faults, and Mexico and Argentina
were tied for fourth place, with 16 faults, heading into the second
round. Ireland had a total of 34 faults.
As the lead-off rider in the first round, Eric Lamaze (CAN) was
fault free until the final combination where he had first element
down for four faults riding Tempete V/H Lindehof. Aboard her long-time
partner, Catch 22, Ainsley Vince also had the first fence down
at the last combination for four faults. Harold Chopping, and
Kathleen carefully navigated the challenging course finishing
as one of the only four clean first rounds. Ian Millar incurred
six faults with Promise Me.
Starting round two for Canada, Vince lowered the height of fence
five, a large yellow oxer, for four faults. Chopping aced the
second round with another clean performance, putting the pressure
on the American team who had already had two four fault second
rounds. Veteran American rider, Norman Dello Joio, produced a
clean ride aboard Glasgow, putting the pressure on Team Canada.
Canadian Olympian, Ian Millar, responded with a perfect performance
with Promise Me, ensuring the Canadian victory.
The Canadian Team won with a total of 12 faults over two rounds.
The Americans finished in second place with 16 faults, and in
third was Argentina with 24 faults. The teams from Mexico and
France both finished with 28 faults each.
"We are developing a nice depth in our horse and rider combinations,"
noted chef d'equipe of the Canadian Team, Danny Foster. "Even
beyond the Olympics, we will be heard from in the future. Canadian
show jumping is on a roll and today's result was just the start."
For complete results, please visit www.stadiumjumping.com
Report from Canada, Contact: Julie Cull, Media Relations, Equine
Canada,
EVENTING COMMITTEE MEETING
Pratoni del Vivaro (ITA), 27 February - 1 March 2004
The Eventing Committee met at the mythical site of many Eventing
Championships and the 1960 Olympic Games in Pratoni del Vivaro
outside of Rome(ITA). This meeting was held in conjunction with
the second Eventing Top Officials Seminar, organised on invitation
for Officials functioning in the high level 2004 Championships,
representatives of regions, riders and trainers.
The Committee decided to recommend to the FEI Bureau and General
Assembly in April 2004 the following important points to be amended
in the Rules for Eventing for 2005:
1. Eventing should continue to consist of two categories of competitions:
Three Day Event (CCIs) and One day Event (CICs).
- Three Day Events - CCIs will in future be organised according
to the current rules with the difference that it can be run with
or without steeplechase. All other technical matters remain as
per existing rules in regard to distances speeds, order of tests,
horse inspections, Officials etc.
- One Day Events - CIC to continue as per current rules, as preparatory
events for the CCI.
- World Cup events will continue to run under the special regulations.
The Committee also decided to abandon the proposal of promoting
an additional category of CIC 4 star as there was no real necessity
with the introduction of the possibility to organize a CCI 4 star
without steeplechase.
It was further recommended that for this particular change, OCs
and NFs would have the possibility to request to organise the
new CCI format as of 1 September 2004.
2. Qualification requirements: Qualification standards for riders
and horses have been revised to make them more comprehensive taking
into account comments of many NFs.
3. Cost of Officials for Events: the rules have been revised for
lower level events to remove the compulsory requirement for foreign
judges as well as offering the possibility to OCs to only have
two Judges instead of three.
4. Age Group Eventing - progression of Young Riders to Senior
Three star category of event: the committee will encourage the
organisation of "under 25" category of events to cover
the gap of progression of the Young riders from the two star level
to three star.
5. Safety program: the Committee presented the outline results
of the safety study on falls to the Top Officials Seminar (will
be published also on FEI Web-site). The study is a long-term project
and will need the figures of several years to produce significant
data. The comparison of the 2 past year has already started to
show useful and interesting figures. These figures are however
dependant on the information provided by the Course Designers
and Technical delegates of events, which is still not optimal.
6. Horse Inspection/Exams for CIC: will be reviewed for 2005.
7. 2005 Dressage Test: 11 new tests will be implemented as of
2005 (3 for each level and 2 for the four star). These tests have
been produced by Mr Christoph Hess and Mr Christopher Bartels.
Tests will now be finalized and published in the coming months.
8. Criteria for New Four star event have been finalized and will
apply to all new applicants, in order to maintain this category
for the best events in the world. The criteria includes requirements
to organise test events, visit by an FEI delegate, minimum prizemoney
etc.
Development Eventing: A parallel meeting took place in Rome with
the FEI Development Department and the Eventing Development Officers
(Mr Andrew Griffiths, Mrs Jennifer Millar and Mr José Ortelli)
to plan the program for the next year in East Europe, South East
Asia and South America. The efforts made in the regions were very
rewarding for the overall development program.
RUMOURS OF 'DOPING' IN EVENTING -
A response from the FEI Veterinary Committee.
1. There have been a number of disturbing rumours in the media
recently, suggesting that event horses are being 'doped' during
the dressage test with a mild short acting calming agent to improve
their performance.
2. The Veterinary Committee of the FEI has been aware of these
rumours since July 2003. It has taken steps to investigate these
allegations, but as yet has no positive proof that any such drugs
are being used.
3. The steps undertaken by the Veterinary Committee include:
- alerting the Bureau (the main policy Committee for the FEI that
meets twice a year) to the seriousness of these rumours;
- increasing the level of testing at high profile events;
- taking advice from the FEI Medication Subcommittee on what sort
of agents might be being used;
- ensuring that the specific categories of drugs likely to cause
these effects can be detected by the FEI analytical laboratories;
- instigating various avenues of research in an attempt to pursue
further awareness of investigation;
- continuing a programme of heightened vigilance in association
with the Eventing Committee over the next few months.
4. The Veterinary Committee is determined to establish the truth
behind these rumours that could so seriously tarnish the sport
of Eventing.
5. Some facts about medication control in the FEI.
SAMPLING - up to 2000 samples are collected per year for testing;
about 1300 of these are from Europe (FEI Groups 1 and 2) and the
remainder from events in the rest of the world. Blood and urine
samples are collected by an experienced vet who follows a careful
protocol to ensure that no tampering of the samples can occur.
LABORATORY ANALYSIS - the samples are sent to an FEI approved
laboratory, which is experienced in dealing with horse material.
The laboratory then reports the result directly and confidentially
to the FEI Veterinary Department in Lausanne. Positive samples
- these are reported to the FEI Legal Department and an opinion
as to the type of drug and whether it is on the Prohibited Substance
list is sought from the Medication Sub-committee.
DECISION MAKING - all the information on positive samples is passed
to the Judicial Committee who then decide on the outcome of the
case and what sanction should be imposed. The outcome of their
discussions are regularly reported in the FEI Bulletin. The judgements
and sanctions are carefully considered, based on legal principles,
and involve an appeal process should this be necessary.
RESULTS - From the 2000 samples examined each year the positive
rate is approximately 3%, most of which (85%) are due to pain
killing and sedative drugs. About 70% of samples are taken from
Jumping horses and so proportionately the highest number of positives
come from that discipline; 7% are taken from Dressage and Eventing
competitions with 4% from Endurance; the rest come from Driving,
Vaulting and Reining.
EVENTING - There has been no demonstrable increase in the positive
rate in any discipline, including Eventing, over the last 12 months
nor in the types of positives detected.
The medication control programme in the FEI is kept as transparent
as possible and the results disseminated widely within the FEI
and its participating disciplines. The programme (as the Press
Release indicated) is constantly under review. Its ultimate aim
is to protect the reputation of equestrian competition as a clean
sport. More information about the FEI's medication policy can
be found on the FEI website www.horsesport.org
NEWS FROM USA EQUESTRIAN FEDERATION
NBC TO TELEVISE ROLEX KENTUCKY THREE-DAY EVENT PRESENTED BY BAYER
The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF), the National Governing
Body for the sport of Equestrian, and Equestrian Events, Inc.,
(EEI), the organizer of the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, announced
today that NBC-TV will present a 90-minute telecast of the 2004
Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event, presented by Bayer. The national
network broadcast will be titled the "Rolex Equestrian Championships"
and will air Sunday, May 2, from 1:30-3:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
"As America's Olympic Network, NBC is proud to broadcast
the nation's premier equestrian competition," said Jon Miller,
Senior Vice President, NBC Sports. "The 2004 Rolex Equestrian
Championships will provide viewers a preview of the Olympic hopefuls
as they prepare for the Athens Games."
As is tradition, the competition will be held at the Kentucky
Horse Park in Lexington, April 22-25. The event will host many
of the world's best horses and riders including riders from the
United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Greece, New Zealand and France,
as they compete for one of the largest purses in the sport of
Eventing and one of the most coveted titles in all of equestrian
sports.
As an added bonus for the riders, the $250,000 Rolex Grand Slam
of Eventing will be awarded to any rider who wins the Rolex Kentucky,
Badminton and Burghley Four Star events in succession.
For further information about the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event,
please visit: www.rk3de.org
www.horsesport.org
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