STELLAR INTERNATIONAL LINE-UP AT CHI ROYAL WINDSOR HORSE SHOW

Royal Windsor Horse Show will welcome the world’s best riders to the private grounds of Windsor Castle from 9 – 13 May 2018, with a line-up fitting to celebrate the Show’s 75th anniversary year. With international competitions taking place across four FEI equestrian disciplines, including CSI5* Show Jumping, CDI4* Dressage and CAIO4* Driving, as well as CEI2* Endurance, the calibre of entries is better than ever before.
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International CSI5* Show Jumping
Six of the world’s top 10 Show Jumpers will be taking to the Castle Arena, headed by World No. 1 Kent Farrington (USA), who will be hoping to make a successful return from injury to reclaim his title in the prestigious Rolex Grand Prix. The class, the pinnacle event of the Show, will take place on Sunday 13 May, with a top-class line-up contending for the coveted Rolex Grand Prix and unprecedented prize fund of €300,000.
International CDI4* Dressage
Reinforcing the international prestige of the Show will be the CDI4* Dressage, with The Al Shira’aa Grand Prix and The Al Shira’aa Grand Prix Freestyle to Music set to take centre stage on the evenings of Thursday 10 and Friday 11 May respectively. Home favourite Carl Hester has dominated Dressage at Royal Windsor in recent years, with victory aboard his Rio Olympic companion Nip Tuck in 2015 and returning to dominate both the Freestyle and Grand Prix with the British-bred Barolo in 2017. Hester will be returning in 2018 with Hawtins Delicato, with whom he recently made his National Grand Prix debut, scoring 76.8%, and the horse with which he is hoping to compete at the FEI World Equestrian GamesTM (WEG) later in the year.

International CAI3*/CAIO4* Driving
The 2018 CAIO Land Rover International Driving Grand Prix, a FEI World CupTM qualifier, will play host to a magnificent line-up in each of the three categories; horse and pony four-in-hands and horse pairs.
The 30 horse four-in-hand competitors represent 12 countries including five from the home nation. Among them will be reigning indoor and outdoor World Champion, Boyd Exell from Australia, who, earlier this year claimed the FEI World CupTMchampionship for the seventh time, looking for a ninth Royal Windsor win.

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