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International Jumping Riders Club
YRA selection 2017: invitation letter to all European National Federations
source: ridersacademy.eu
Lugano/Säffle, January 2017.
We are proud and happy to be able to invite you to the fourth year of the Young Riders Academy for promising riders (18 – 23 of age). We hope, again, that this initiative will be of great benefit to your Federation and for your young athletes. The “Riders Academy”, as you may know, has been developed by a group of equestrian professionals with the cooperation of the International Jumping Riders Club (IJRC) and with the generous support of Rolex. The aim of Riders Academy is to assist in training show jumping young talents and preparing their career as future professionals in this sport. The Riders Academy program, thanks to Rolex, will give the chance to five to six promising riders to get about six months of “tailor-made” training and boarding at a well-known professional stable with no costs. On top of that, the program also includes professional education in communication, business and economics, veterinary and legal practice connected to show jumping.
The ambition is to create future ambassadors of equestrian sport!
Each European Federation is invited to enter up to three candidates for the program. Out of these entries, a selection panel consisting of Emile Hendrix, Jean-Maurice Bonneau, Otto Becker and Sven Holmberg will select about 25 riders who will be invited to one of two events either in Arezzo Toscana Tour (April 5th -9th ) or Redefin in northern Germany (May 12th- 14th), depending on travel distance. By the mid of May, the above panel will identify final participants. One spot will be dedicated to a rider from central/eastern Europe.
The selection will be based on jumping results (140 -150 classes), availability of horses and candidate’s personal profiles. The trainers we have involved in these years program have been: Kevin Staut, Ludger Beerbaum, Dietmar Gugler, Rolf Göran Bengtsson, Jos Lansink, Marcus Ehning, Gerco Schröder, Markus Beerbaum. The assignment of the trainer to each participant will be decided by the selection panel in agreement with the participant himself. Other trainers may also be involved.
Entries should be sent at the latest by February 28th 2017. There are no obligations for the NF and the program will not be in conflict with other programs the NF may have for their young promising riders; instead we are fully prepared to find ways of cooperation both in planning and follow-up.
A draft program, experiences from the first year and the entry form can be found on the web-site www.ridersacademy.eu where we kindly ask you to enter your candidates within the above deadline.
Kind regards
Eleonora Moroni Ottaviani
Sven Holmberg
Lugano/Säffle, January 2017.
We are proud and happy to be able to invite you to the fourth year of the Young Riders Academy for promising riders (18 – 23 of age). We hope, again, that this initiative will be of great benefit to your Federation and for your young athletes. The “Riders Academy”, as you may know, has been developed by a group of equestrian professionals with the cooperation of the International Jumping Riders Club (IJRC) and with the generous support of Rolex. The aim of Riders Academy is to assist in training show jumping young talents and preparing their career as future professionals in this sport. The Riders Academy program, thanks to Rolex, will give the chance to five to six promising riders to get about six months of “tailor-made” training and boarding at a well-known professional stable with no costs. On top of that, the program also includes professional education in communication, business and economics, veterinary and legal practice connected to show jumping.
The ambition is to create future ambassadors of equestrian sport!
Each European Federation is invited to enter up to three candidates for the program. Out of these entries, a selection panel consisting of Emile Hendrix, Jean-Maurice Bonneau, Otto Becker and Sven Holmberg will select about 25 riders who will be invited to one of two events either in Arezzo Toscana Tour (April 5th -9th ) or Redefin in northern Germany (May 12th- 14th), depending on travel distance. By the mid of May, the above panel will identify final participants. One spot will be dedicated to a rider from central/eastern Europe.
The selection will be based on jumping results (140 -150 classes), availability of horses and candidate’s personal profiles. The trainers we have involved in these years program have been: Kevin Staut, Ludger Beerbaum, Dietmar Gugler, Rolf Göran Bengtsson, Jos Lansink, Marcus Ehning, Gerco Schröder, Markus Beerbaum. The assignment of the trainer to each participant will be decided by the selection panel in agreement with the participant himself. Other trainers may also be involved.
Entries should be sent at the latest by February 28th 2017. There are no obligations for the NF and the program will not be in conflict with other programs the NF may have for their young promising riders; instead we are fully prepared to find ways of cooperation both in planning and follow-up.
A draft program, experiences from the first year and the entry form can be found on the web-site www.ridersacademy.eu where we kindly ask you to enter your candidates within the above deadline.
Kind regards
Eleonora Moroni Ottaviani
Sven Holmberg