UPDATE ON THE WORLD CUP FINAL IN GÖTEBORG (SWE) – Sweden will only allow horses into the country, if these horses have been resident in an Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD)-free country for the last 14 days prior to their arrival in Sweden.
Since free countries of today could well be infected countries tomorrow, The FEI have asked the Swedish organisers if horses arriving early at the venue could be stabled and trained. The Organising Committee has arranged for suitable stabling in proximity of the event venue.
The FEI today informed the NFs as follows: NFs are advised to consider departing for Sweden as soon as possible, if they are situated in a country that is free from FMD at this point. For countries eligible to participate and considered as infected (FRA, GBR, IRL, NED) it should be realised that the horses must remain in a free country for a period of 14 days. This residency must be authenticated at arrival at the Swedish border. The date of arrival into the FMD free country should be entered and stamped by the official veterinarian on page 54-56 of the FEI passport or at the appropriate page of your national passport.
For further information, please call the Organisers of Göteborg Horse Show, Torild Berg, +46 31 61 56 72 or +46 705 82 84 15, Ulf Bergqvist +46 708 35 35 52.
QUALIFIED RIDERS
Western European League The FEI decided to allow the 26 riders (instead of 18) of the Western European League who had a fair chance to qualify before the cancellation of â¬Üs-Hertogenbosch.
BEL Ludo Philippaerts, Jos Lansink , Marc van Dijck
GBR Michael Whitaker
GER Ludger Beerbaum, René Tebbel, Thomas Voss, Markus Beerbaum, Otto Becker, Markus Ehning, Franke Sloothaak, Lars Nieberg, Helena Weinberg, Carsten-Otto Nagel
IRL Peter Charles, Jessica Kurten
ITA Jerry Smit
NED Jan Tops, Wim Schröder,Gerco Schröder, Yves Houtackers NOR Geir Gulliksen
SUI Willi Melliger, Beat Mändli, Markus Fuchs
SWE Rolf-Göran Bengtsson
SITUATION IN THE OTHER LEAGUES
USA East Coast League is still going.
Central European League Grzegorz Kubiak (POL) is in Germany and Krzysztof Prasek (POL) have not left
Poland yet.
Canadian League
Mario Deslauriers is already in Germany, Jay Hayes in Europe and Jonathon Millar still waiting in Florida.
South East Asian League
The League winner, Helena Gabrielson, will compete in the Final in her native Sweden. She is already in Sweden.
Central Asian League
No rider will participate (horse injured)
Japan League
Chieko Yamaguchi was the league winner and she intends to compete in the Final. She is presently in France.
South American League Southern Part
The 5th placed Manoel Poladian Filho intends to compete in the Final. He is still in Brazil
South AfricanLeague
No rider will come.
Australia League
No rider will come (quarantine conditions to come back make it too difficult)
New Zealand League
No rider will come
USA West Coast League
The top three placed, Dick Carvin, Ray Texel and Nicole Shahinian – Simpson intend to compete in the Final. They are still waiting in California.
USA East Coast League
8 of 10 competitions have been held. Still to come are two competitions in Tampa, on 25 and 29 March. 65 riders have competed up to now. The leader, Peter Wylde is blocked in the Netherlands. He won 2 World Cup competitions of the Western EU League (Mechelen and Dortmund). The original intention was to leave for Europe on 8 April but a final decision is to be taken after the last competition.
