Lausanne (SUI), 28 March 2012 – With the Reem Acra FEI World Cup Dressage Final 2011/2012 now only a few short weeks away, the line-up of riders who will represent North America and Central Europe at ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands from 19 to 22 April has been confirmed. The USA’s Jan Ebeling and Shawna Harding will fly the North American flag, while Poland’s Katarzyna Milczarek and Michal Rapcewicz have clinched the two spots for Central Europe.
In total there are four geographic regions in which horse-and-rider combinations battle it out for a place at the annual Reem Acra FEI World Cup Dressage final, with a variety of qualification formats. In the Western European League, now in its second season of sponsorship by New York fashion designer Reem Acra, there is a points-for-placings system, while competitors in the Central European and Pacific regions qualify through a league final and in North America, which embraces both the USA and Canada, the result is achieved by averaging the top two results.
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