Team GBR Squad for the St. Gallen Furusiyya FEI 5* Nations Cup Announced

Di Lampard, the World Class Showjumping Performance Manager has today announced her Team GBR squad of five that will be travelling to St. Gallen, Switzerland for the fourth leg of this year’s Europe Division One CSIO 5* Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup competitions.

Competition at the Longines CSIO Schweiz St. Gallen Show will commence on Thursday 4^th June before drawing to a close on Sunday 7^th June. The Nations Cup scheduled to take place on Friday 5^th June at 15:00 hours local time and the Grand Prix will take place on the Sunday at 12.15pm local time.

The squad selected is as follows:

Joe Davison, from Uttoxeter, Staffordshire with Calimero Van’t Roth, a 13 year-old bay gelding owned by Richard Davison

Holly Gillott, a World Class Development Programme rider from Loughborough, Leicestershire with her own 10 year-old liver chestnut gelding Dougie Douglas.

Jessica Mendoza, another World Class Development Programme rider from Chippenham, Wiltshire with the 14 year-old British bred brown mare Spirit T owned by Sarah Mendoza and John Roberts

Spencer Roe, who is also a World Class Development Programme rider from Lincolnshire with the 12 year-old bay gelding Wonder Why owned by Sally Roe

Robert Whitaker, from Sidcup, Kent with 12 year-old bay gelding Catwalk IV owned by Mandy Hall 

Further information on the show and for results once the show is underway can be found by visiting www.csio.ch. Full information in respect of the Furusiyya FEI Nations Cup series can be found by visiting www.fei.org.

FEI TV will be showing live footage from the event. To access this please visit www.feitv.org. The programme will also be shown at a later date on Horse & Country TV. Please visit www.britishshowjumping.co.uk and click on ‘What’s on TV’ for broadcast times.

The British Showjumping Teams are supported by the UK Sport National Lottery funded World Class Programme.