Brett Parbery and Willinga Park Emotion won the Australian Young Dressage Horse Champion of Champions at PSI DJWTS 2019. © Roger Fitzhardinge
PSI Dressage and Jumping with the Stars is raising the stakes at this year’s event with two World Cup Qualifiers to be held Werribee Park next month.
It is the first time that an FEI Jumping World Cup Qualifier will be included along with the event’s annual FEI Dressage World Cup Qualifier at the National Equestrian Centre from 19-21st of March.
Set to take place three weeks before the 2019/2020 World Cup Final in Las Vegas, the PSI DJWTS World Cup round will also be the first qualifier for the 2020/2021 Australian World Cup Series.
Since the PSI Dressage and Jumping with the Stars began in 1998, it has attracted some of the best horse and rider combinations in the country with its variety of classes and disciplines.
This year the committee hopes to attract further talent by increasing the Jumping program to include an extra ring with Open Classes, in addition to the CSI1*W.
The Championships taking place at next month’s PSI Dressage and Jumping with the Stars, alongside the World Cup Qualifiers are:
- Australian Young Dressage Horse and Pony Championships
- Australian Young Jumping Horse Championships
- Young Event Horse Championships
- Rising Star Led Championships
- Performance Pony Championships
In each of the Young Horse disciplines, which are arranged into age classes, an Age Champion is crowned from among its peers.
The Age Champion will then go on to compete in the Champion of Champions class for each discipline, going up against both younger and older horses.
A further addition to the multi-discipline event is the world-renowned course designer and French eventing veteran Pierre Michelet as the Young Even Horse Guest Judge.
The 2020 Jumping Guest Star will be Germany’s Armin Schäfer Jr whose active competition schedule takes him around the European circuit building his profile as a professional rider.
Also hailing from Germany is this year’s Dressage Guest Star, Charlott Maria Schürmann, who won the Nürnberger Burg-Pokal Final seven years ago.
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