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The riders who have been granted permission to compete and represent Great Britain as individuals at the FEI European Youth Championships 2020, 9 – 30 August, in Budapest, Hungary has been announced. 

British Dressage is delighted to announce that riders, horses, owners and connections will not miss their opportunity to compete at Hartpury and the revised NAF Five Star Winter Championships and Petplan Equine Area Festival Championships are now set to run from 17 to 23 August 2020.

It is with sadness that British Dressage has learned of the passing of Tim Price, former show director at Addington Manor. Tim passed away on 12 July at the age of 66 following a short illness.

Good results were achieved by the young Brits who travelled to Grote-Brogel CDI in Belgium last week (9 – 12 July 2020). Hosted by the Breugelhoeve equestrian centre, the Grote-Brogel CDI was the fourth CDI since the resumption of the international competition calendar and the first attended by British riders.

The First Ministers for Scotland and Wales have announced new lockdown measures in the past 36 hours which will allow further equestrian activity to resume in the devolved nations. Meanwhile, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has unveiled plans to help the UK recover financially from the pandemic.

British Dressage (BD) members in England have been out competing for ten days now as dressage shows have been able to get back underway under COVID-19 safe conditions – and today’s announcement by Wales First Minister Mark Drakeford means that our welsh members can also resume outdoor competition activity.

British Dressage is delighted to announce that the FEI has promoted British FEI judge Peter Storr to 5* Judging status as of 1 January 2021.

The British Equestrian World Class Programme is inviting up-and-coming athletes to put themselves forward to be part of the selection process to join the Podium Potential Pathway squad for 2021–2023.

British Dressage can announce that bookings are now open for our ever popular regional training camps in England. The six Regional Development Officers (RDOs) have been working with venues around the country to put the necessary measures in place to create COVID secure conditions in line with the revised government restrictions, to enable these camps to run from August onwards and into the autumn months.

The following riders have been selected to represent Great Britain this week at Grote-Brogel CDI2*/CDIU25/CDIYJP in Belgium (9 – 12 July 2020).