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US Eventers Ready for Luhmühlen

Shamwari 4 is presented at the first horse inspection by Phillip Dutton for Boyd Martin (Stockimageservices.com)

Land Rover Grant Recipients Martin and Shamwari 4 Set to Make CCI4* Debut

Luhmühlen, Germany – Land Rover Competition Grant recipients Boyd Martin and Shamwari 4 have traveled to Germany eyeing a top placing at this week’s Luhmühlen CCI4*. They will be among 53 combinations from 12 nations set to contest the event which runs June 12-15 and is one of only seven CCI4*s held annually throughout the world.

Martin (Cochranville, Pa.) acquired the Hanoverian gelding, which represented Sweden at the 2012 Olympic Games and 2013 HSBC FEI European Eventing Championships in early 2014, and the pair quickly began to forge a partnership. However, Martin spent much of the spring season on the sidelines after breaking his leg in March. During this time, his mentor, Phillip Dutton, stepped in, piloting Shamwari 4 to third-place finishes in CIC3* competition at Fair Hill and Jersey Fresh. In May, the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games and 2012 London Olympic Games veteran was back in the tack and has prepared for Luhmühlen with a win in an Open Intermediate section on the Shamwari 4 Syndicate LLC’s gelding at the Waredaca Horse Trials.

In Luhmühlen, Martin will also ride his London Olympic Games partner, the Otis Barbotiere Syndicate LLC’s Otis Barbotiere, in CCI4* competition. Dutton (West Grove, Pa.) will ride Bruce Duchossois’ 2013 Red Hills International Horse Trials CIC3* winner, Mighty Nice, at the prestigious German competition.

Competition gets underway Thursday with the first of two days of dressage with Martin and Otis Barbotiere kicking things off for the U.S. at 1:54pm local time. On Friday, Martin will ride Shamwari 4 at 3:18pm local time and Dutton and Mighty Nice will head down centerline at 4:24pm local time.

To learn more about the Luhmühlen CCI4*, visit: http://www.luhmuehlen.de/index.asp?tree_id=65&sprache_id=2.

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Martin Awarded Land Rover Competition Grant to Compete at the Luhmühlen CCI4*

Lexington, Ky. – The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) is pleased to announce that Boyd Martin has been awarded a Land Rover Grant to compete at the Luhmühlen CCI4* in Luhmühlen, Germany, June 12-15, 2014.

Martin (Cochranville, Pa.) will ride the Shamwari 4 Syndicate LLC’s Shamwari 4.
Shamwari 4 is a 2002 Hanoverian gelding.

Martin, the winner of the 2003 Adelaide CCI4*, relocated to the U.S. in 2007 from his native Australia and in 2009 began riding under the American flag. He made his U.S. team debut at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games helping the United States to a fourth-place finish and was the individually the highest placing American in 10th. Martin went on to represent the U.S. two years later in London at the 2012 Olympic Games. To begin the month of March, he won the CIC3* at the Red Hills International Horse Trials.

Additionally, with the 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in mind, the USEF Eventing High Performance Committee approved the Selection Committee’s recommendation to not fund a Nations Cup team to compete at the Aachen CICO3* this summer in an effort to focus resources toward the World Championship effort.

Learn more about the Luhmühlen CCI4*, visit: http://www.luhmuehlen.de/index.asp?tree_id=65&sprache_id=2.

Follow the Land Rover U.S. Eventing Team at http://www.usefnetwork.com/featured/LandRoverUSEventingTeam/.

Nicholson Means Business at Luhmühlen

Andrew Nicholson, pictured here with Nereo at Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials, has maintained his lead of the HSBC FEI Classics into the penultimate leg at Luhmühlen CCI4*. (Photo: Kit Houghton/FEI)

Lausanne (SUI), 12 June 2013 – Andrew Nicholson (NZL), who holds a commanding lead in the HSBC FEI Classics, heads to Germany this week for the penultimate leg of the series at Luhmühlen CCI4*, presented by DHL PAKET (13-16 June).

Nicholson, the 2012 HSBC Rankings champion, is clearly not about to squander his excellent chance of becoming the first Kiwi to head the HSBC FEI Classics, and is travelling to the premier German event with three good rides.

He brings the Spanish-bred mare Qwanza, seventh at Kentucky last year, the striking grey Mr Cruise Control, by Cruising, fourth at Luhmühlen in 2010, plus Rathmoyle King, previously ridden at CCI4* level by Carolyne Ryan-Bell (GBR).

Nicholson has a 13-point advantage in the HSBC FEI Classics over his compatriot Jock Paget, winner of a thrilling Badminton (GBR) last month. Paget is also intent on maintaining his foothold on the HSBC FEI Classics and rides CCI4* débutant Bullet Proof.

William Fox-Pitt (GBR), three times a winner of the HSBC FEI Classics and currently third in the rankings, also has three top rides: his 2012 Olympic horse Lionheart, Neuf des Coeurs and Cool Mountain. The latter, a CCI4* winner at Kentucky in 2010 and a world team gold and individual silver medallist, is back in work after a season’s absence through injury.

Two more combinations from Britain’s Olympic silver medal team will be in action at Luhmühlen: Nicola Wilson rides the crowd-pleasing Opposition Buzz, a brilliant Cross Country horse, and Zara Phillips has re-routed High Kingdom after his run-out in the Badminton lake.

Two members of Australia’s Olympic team return to Luhmühlen after good placings here last year: Lucinda Fredericks, back in action after breaking her collarbone in a fall this spring, comes back with Flying Finish, the 2012 runner-up, and Andrew Hoy has Rutherglen, who finished sixth in 2012.

Olympic champion Michael Jung (GER), currently lying fourth in the HSBC FEI Classics, will ride last year’s Luhmühlen winner, Leopin, another to have a Cross Country refusal at Badminton.

A strong home entry includes double Olympic gold medallist Ingrid Klimke on Tabasco TSF, a dual CIC3* winner, Bettina Hoy on Lanfranco TSF, the horse that has brought her back to top level with 10th place at Burghley last year, and Julia Krajewski, who rides London-Return and has strong claims to the HSBC Training Bursary awarded to the best first-time CCI4* completion.

Luhmühlen is an important event for the German squad, as it is the major selection trial for the HSBC FEI European Eventing Championships in Malmö (SWE) in August.

There are 51 horses entered from 11 nations: Australia, Belgium, Ecuador, France, Great Britain, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden and USA.

Cross Country Course Designer Mark Phillips (GBR) says that although his track runs on a similar route to last year, it is “a very different CCI4* test which will require concentration all the way round”.

The first water complex comes up at fence 4, the DHL PAKET Komplex, with a big boat fence into the water and a bounce distance out up a step and over another boat. The biggest fence on the course is the Gärtnerei Wredes Rennbahnsprung at 7, which is 1.45m and 2m wide at the top and 3m wide at the bottom.

Capt Phillips says the HSBC Complex at 9-12 in the main arena is, again, the most technical, with two hedge to corner questions on acute angles. “Hopefully, all horses and riders will come home with a smile on their faces,” he says.

Full details on www.luhmuehlen.de.

View full standings: www.fei.org/fei/sponsors/hsbc-and-fei/fei-classics.

Watch the action LIVE on FEI TV (www.feitv.org/live), the FEI’s official video website from Luhmühlen (GER):

15 June – Cross Country: 12.20 local time
16 June – Jumping: 13.45 local time

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By Kate Green

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