A look at last year’s Ballindenisk course with Mike Ryan
Pippa Cuckson has published a great article about the start of the British high performance season at the CCI3* at Ballindenisk in Ireland next week. Ballindenisk was scheduled to give Ireland a better chance to have their riders place higher in the Olympic point standings, which determines the number of spots each nation gets in the Olympics–the deadline for such points is the end of February. Britain has already qualified an Olympic team by being the host nation (they would have qualified anyway at WEG 2010), so the Team GBR is using Ballindenisk to get the necessary CCI3* qualification for some of their horses who were injured last year and do not have an Olympic qualification. Tina Cook with Miners Frolic and Pippa Funnell with Redesigned headline the list. As crazy as it sounds, Pippa Funnell explains that going to Ballindenisk in no means rules out Badminton. As for scheduling, Pippa writes: “Eventing team manager Yogi Breisner wants to name his preferred five at the end of May. Fifteen horse and rider combinations must be chosen by June 17, and the final five named on July 6.” In other news, William has 5 million horses that are Olympic hopefuls.
Read more of Pippa’s article: [Telegraph, Ballindenisk Entries]
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