{"id":38628,"date":"2017-12-11T15:49:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T04:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?p=38628"},"modified":"2017-12-11T15:49:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T04:49:48","slug":"para-equestrian-df-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2017\/12\/para-equestrian-df-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"PARA EQUESTRIAN @ DF 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0<\/strong>2017 Dressage Festival, Victorian State Championships December 7-10th<\/sup> was the scene for the first Para Equestrian Selection Qualifier for WEG 2018<\/h1>\n

2018 has heralded several changes to FEI Para Equestrian competition. Grades are now 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 and the Individual Test is now Day 1, Team Test , Day 2 and Freestyle Day 3.<\/p>\n

It was very encouraging to see 12\/15 entries participating; 7 Victorians and one each from Tasmania, NSW, S.A., W.A. and QLD, with several promising new combinations, horses, pony and riders.<\/p>\n

Grade 3 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Emma Booth VIC. and Wasabi Sun -68% to 71%<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Skinner VIC – Freedom Spyda 65%-67.9%<\/p>\n

Grade 2\u00a0\u00a0 Victoria Davies NSW and Bravour M -66.9% to 70.3%<\/p>\n

Joann Formosa VIC- Triple Trees Prince Perfect 66%-67%<\/p>\n

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Amanda Parsons and LBA Zia<\/em><\/p>\n

Grade 4 \u00a0Amanda Parsons TAS \u2013LBA Zia 64% to 67%<\/p>\n

Sharon Jarvis WA \u2013Ceasy 62%-68.5%<\/p>\n

Phoebe Roche QLD \u2013Power Of Attorney 63.5%-63.7%<\/p>\n

Grade 5\u00a0\u00a0 Matilda Carnegie VIC -Quebec 51 -61%-63%<\/p>\n

Noella Angel SA \u2013Mallee Jack 60%-61%<\/p>\n

Claire Graham VIC Valentino W 62% 61% and Comtesse 59%<\/p>\n

Grade 1 Morgan Webb-Liddle VIC \u2013Remi Faberge 48.9%-57.6%<\/p>\n

There was \u00a0improvement in the scores from Day 1 to Day 2, culminating in their Freestyles<\/p>\n

FEI International Judge Alison King from Hong Kong willingly offered advice in post-test discussions with the riders.<\/p>\n

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The riders after the Freestyle presentations<\/em><\/p>\n

Qualifier 1 at DF was a very positive start and now anyone who wants to be considered for WEG has to be at Boneo CPEDI3* January 24-27th<\/sup> 2018 !!! There could be 20 riders there, some with two horses.<\/p>\n

EA WEG Selection Policy states to be considered for selection riders must have achieved 68% or above in the Individual or Team test in at least two nominated CPEDI 3* or 4* Observation events.<\/p>\n

Target scores for each grade are Grade 1- 75.28%; Grade 2-74.42%; Grade 3 71.81%; Grade 4 71.34% and Grade 5 73.94%<\/p>\n

The first three Australian Selection events are the Dressage Festival, Dec 2107, Boneo CPEDI* January 24-27, 2018 then Sydney CDI 3-5 May 2018.<\/p>\n

Report written by\u00a0Merrilyn Hamilton-Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n

P.EQ Selector(AUS)<\/em><\/p>\n

11\/12\/2017<\/em><\/p>\n

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Merriyn Hamilton-Smith reports from the first of the WEG Para Selection Trials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":38631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[1784],"class_list":["post-38628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-weg-para-selections"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38633,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38628\/revisions\/38633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}