FEI WORLD CUP™ JUMPING 2006/2007 - FINAL LAS VEGAS (USA)

ROLEX FEI WORLD CUP™ FINALS - LATEST NEWS

The late withdrawal of French rider Eugenie Angot has brought the final total of competitors for next week's Rolex FEI World Cup™ Jumping Final in Las Vegas to 42.

Angot's mare, Cigale du Taillis, suffered an injury during the final qualifying leg at s'Hertogenbosch in Holland last month and despite every effort to bring her back to full fitness it was decided last Thursday that she should not travel. Earlier in the week Sweden's Malin Baryard-Johnsson got a late call-up when Austria's Thomas Fruhmann also pulled out, but there will be no replacement for the French rider.

Judy-Ann Melchior's mare, VDL Groep Grande Dame, did not make the official flight out of Amsterdam due to a late blood-test but the Belgian rider has made alternate arrangements so her horse is flying out independently to Los Angeles.

The full list of participants is now as follows:

Gavin Chester (Australia) - Warlord 11
Denis Gouvea (Brazil) - VDL Nantes
Taizo Sugitani (Japan) - Caitano
Santiago Lambre (Mexico) - Campino
Alberto Michan (Mexico) - Chinobampo Lavita
Christian Ahlmann (Germany) - Coster
Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum) - Shutterfly
Albert Zoer (Netherlands) - Lowina
Leopold Van Asten (Netherlands - VDL Groep Fleche Rouge
Beat Mandli (Switzerland) - Ideo du Thot
Michael Whitaker (Great Britain) - Insul Tech Portofino
Steve Guerdat (Switzerland) - Tresor
Marco Kutscher (Germany) - Controe
Tony Andre Hansen (Norway) - Camiro
Alois Pollmann-Schweckhorst (Germany) - Candy
Markus Beerbaum (Germany) - Leena
Judy Ann Melchior (Belgium) - VDL Groep Grande Dame
Gerco Schroder (Netherlands) - Eurocommerce Milano
Rene Tebbel (Germany) - Team Harmony Coupe de Coeur
Daniel Deusser (Germany) - Air Jordan Z
Patrick McEntee (Belgium) - Ever Mury Marais Z
Malin Baryard-Johnsson (Sweden) - Butterfly Flip
Edwina Alexander (Australia) - Isovlas Pialotta
Krzysztof Lukwiczak (Poland) - Hof Schretstakens Quamiro
Lukasz Jonczyk (Poland) - Ritus
A. Bin Metab Al Saud (Saudi Arabia) - Al Saad Khaled
Beezie Madden (USA) - Authentic
McLain Ward (USA) - Sapphire
Lauren Hough (USA) - Casadora
Margie Goldstein-Engle (USA) - Hidden Creek' Perin, Hidden Creek's Quervo Gold
Schuyler Riley (USA) - Ilian
Molly Ashe (USA) - Cocu, Kroon Gravin
Christine Tribble-McCrea (USA) - Promised Land
Jill Humphrey (USA) - Felix, KASKAY
Richard Spooner (USA) - Cristallo, Apache
Rich Fellers (USA) - Gyro, Flexible
Kate Levy (USA) - Vent du Nord
Mandy Porter (USA) - Summer
John Pearce (Canada) - Archie Baunker, Urioso
Jill Henselwood ICanada) - Black Ice, Callisto
Marcus Ehning (Germany) - Gitania
Rodrigo Pessoa (Brazil) - Coeur, Oasis

Please note that BIOGRAPHIES for competitors in both the dressage and jumping Finals have been updated on the FEI website wherever possible and you can check them out by logging on to www.horsesport.org. Some riders have been particularly helpful in allowing us to get to know them a little better - did you know, for instance, that show jumper Gavin Chester plays country music in his spare time or that fellow-Australian Edwina Alexander's first international outing back in 1996 took place in Hong Kong? (Could that be a good omen for Edwina's Olympic chances in 2008 do you think?) Belgian rider Patrick McEntee tells a great story about going into a mare's stable one morning to load her up for a show only to find her standing with a foal by her side while Germany's new young star Daniel Deusser admits to almost retiring from the sport very early in his career after one particularly bad day....

The TV SCHEDULE for the Rolex FEI World Cup™ Finals is now available on the web at http://www.feiworldcup.org/wc_s/telev.htm and also note that you can access PHOTOGRAPHS, both in high and low resolution, for use by professional media free of charge. The photo gallery will be password protected so to request the password please contact feiphotos@enterprise.net. Users must give full details of the publication/website for whom they are working otherwise access will be unavailable. The service will become active on Tuesday 17 April and the link can be accessed on www.feiworldcup.org.

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FEI World Cup™ Jumping has entered its 29th season. The series, created in 1978, today comprises 14 leagues on all continents. The best riders from 132 preliminary competitions will qualify for the final in Las Vegas, USA which takes place from 19 to 22 April 2007. The title-holder is Germany's Marcus Ehning.

FEI World Cup™ Dressage, initiated in 1985, is the only worldwide series in this discipline. It comprises qualifying leagues encompassing Western and Central Europe, North America, Canada and Australia. Judged on both technical and artistic merit, the FEI World Cup™ Dressage combines art, sport and partnership between horse and rider at the highest level and consistently proves a winning formula with audiences all over the world.

The Federation Equestre Internationale (FEI), founded in 1921, is the international body governing equestrian sport recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and includes 133 National Federations.

Equestrian sport has been on the Olympic programme since 1912 with three disciplines - Jumping, Dressage and Eventing. It is one of the very few sports in which men and women compete on equal terms It is also the only sport which involves two athletes - horse and rider. The FEI has relentlessly concerned itself with the welfare of the horse, which is paramount and must never be subordinated to competitive or commercial influences.

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