Jonelle Price’s Grappa Nera. Photo by Tilly Berendt.
A new year brings a new international calendar for eventing, and though there are no major worldwide championships on the docket it’s still stacking up to be an action-packed year of sport. Highlights for 2023 include the FEI European Eventing Championships, to be held at Haras du Pin in August (and also to be designed by incoming Paris Olympic cross country designer Pierre le Goupil), as well as the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile in late October (also designed by Pierre le Goupil). Among the most notable revisions to the calendar is the change to the UK’s Nations Cup leg, which will now be hosted at Chatsworth the week after Badminton, rather than the now defunct Houghton International Horse Trials later in the month.
The FEI Eventing Nations Cup is a highlight of the international calendar, and while this year will see no legs hosted in North America — a usual challenge given the distance required to travel and the resulting difficulty of forming enough teams — a total of eight stops will make up the schedule.
The 2023 FEI Eventing Nations Cup schedule is as follows:
CCIO4*-NC-S Montelibretti (ITA) – March 9-12, 2023
CCIO4*-NC-S Chatsworth (GBR) – May 13-14, 2023
CCIO4*-NC-S Millstreet (IRL) – June 1-6, 2023
CCIO4*-NC-S Strzegom (POL) – June 21-25, 2023
CCIO4*-NC-S Haras de Jardy (FRA) – July 13-16, 2023
CCIO4*-NC-S Avenches (SUI) – July 20-23, 2023
CCIO4*-NC-S Arville (BEL) – August 17-20, 2023
CCIO4*-NC-L Boekelo (NED) – October 5-10, 2023
