Experienced and emerging Australian riders will converge in Adelaide for the fifth staging of the Equestrian Grand Final when the event takes place as part of the 2015 Australian International Three Day Event happening from 19-22 November 2015.
Equestrian Australia (EA) has today published the complete list of finalists which includes more than 50 combinations in three Olympic disciplines including athletes from each mainland state. Riders will chase Grand Final glory in Adelaide as it runs in conjunction with the Australian International Three Day Event for the first time.
Senior and Young Riders will go head to head in the Dressage Grand Final including Equestrian Grand Final Ambassador Stuart Archibald. Victorian based Archibald is one three Young Riders in the field including Morgan Duell (also from Victoria) and Cooper Oborn (from South Australia).
Individual and team honours will be on the line in the Dressage with four teams battling it out for the inaugural Grand Final team championship.
“To be in this beautiful scene and at the Australian International Three Day Event will be a great promotion for Dressage in Australia,” said Archibald. “We dressage riders like the scene and the atmosphere and so do our horses. The bigger the atmosphere the better our horses will go,” he said.
The Dressage Grand Final will be a CDN Small Tour teams competition. The classes run will be a Prix St-Georges and an Intermediate 1 Freestyle. Eleven riders (8 senior riders and 3 young riders) competing as Individuals and in teams of three.
The 2015 Dressage Grand Finalists includes:
- Stuart Archibald - Roxbury Lucille
- Heather Currie - Donnerblitz
- Morgan Duell - Florinzz
- Sally Engelhardt - Keribee Galileo
- Fiona Guthrie - Don Duchovny
- Cooper Oborn - Fairbanks Picasso
- Linda Oleary - Gainsborough Donner Capo
- Niki Rose - Wallstrasse
- Ruth Schneeberger - Royal Dancer
- Anne Smith - Lyrical
- Julia Weir - Rashada
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