Team Canada is enjoy the benefits of catching the attention of Canadian high performance funding after their team silver at the World Equestrian Games last year. Canada is giving 4 riders “generous” (more than half the cost) grants to travel and compete at Burghley this september. The pairs are:
Kyle Carter — Madison Park
Jessie Phoenix — Exponential
Hawley Bennett — Gin ‘N Guice
Rebecca Howard — Riddle Master
I spoke with Canadian Chef d’equipe Graeme Thom aka ‘The George Clooney of Eventing‘ and he said that the horses would be staying at Jacky Green’s Maizey Manor Farm, which should sound familiar from yesterday. The horses will likely be flying over around the 25th of August, but there is a possibility of them going over early to compete at Hartpury in mid-August.
Kyle Carter told me that his road to Burghley would hopefully be Rebecca Farms, Millbrook, Hartpury, and then the big one. He also mentioned that this trip was about redemption from his last trip to Burghley in 2009. Can you believe that Burghley is just 10 weeks away?
As a shout-out to Ecogold, all four of the riders compete in Ecogold gear along with a ton of other North American high performance riders of course, and you can read more about that and their trip on the Ecogold blog.
Go eventing.
