2014 Pavo Cup UK qualifier info

The Pavo Cup pre-selection will take place during the Festival of Dressage at Hartpury College, on Friday July 11th. The Pavo Cup pre-selection will give you the opportunity to qualify your horses for the semi-finals in Ermelo. The Pavo Cup is a competition for talented four- and five-year-old dressage horses in which they are evaluated in groups of two as they perform various dressage movements in front of an experienced panel of KWPN judges. Four-year-olds are required to show the walk, trot, and canter in both directions as well as a few strides of medium trot, medium canter, and leg yield. Five-year-olds must show the basic gaits plus extended trot, extended canter, and shoulder-in. Horses are judged on their basic gaits, carriage & elasticity, overall impression, and functionality & correctness of conformation.

The Pavo Cup pre-selection will take place at the CDI*** on Friday, July 11th, in Hartpury College’s International Arena. The competition is open to four- and five-year-old dressage horses which meet the registration requirements outlined in the competition rules. Only horses registered with the KWPN or KWPN-NA or those which were registered as foals with the NRPS, as described in the competition rules, are eligible to qualify for the semi-finals held at the KWPN Horse Days event in Ermelo.

Over the past years, KWPN is the most succesfull studbook in dressage. Horses like Valegro, Uthopia, Totilas and Parzival stole the hearts of many dressage lovers all over the world. The first two contributed to the Olympic gold of Team Britiain at the unforgettable London Olympics. KWPN has a large number of breeders in the UK. Especially for those and everybody else who ownes or rides a KWPN dressage horse KWPN organizes the Pavo Cup pre-selection in the UK.

Entry forms can be found on the website of Hartpury Festival of Dressage. More info on eligibility, requirements and tests: www.kwpn.org or email KWPN.

Picture – Emma Woolley and Eva Vita, kindly provided by KWPN.
Emma Woolley and Wynton-daughter Eva Vita won last year’s four-year-old Pavo Cup pre-selection at Hartpury. The pair made a very good impression during the semi-finals and Eva Vita was sold through the Equine elite auction a few months later.