Hickstead CDI clashes with Olympic Games in 2012
Dressage at Hickstead will not hold its annual CDI in 2012 due to a date clash with the Olympic Games.
Organiser Dane Rawlins said the venue was unable to find a suitable date for the international and decided to postpone the event until 2013.
Hickstead will still run a number of affiliated and unaffiliated shows next summer, including the British Paralympic team final trials (18-19 June) and the Premier League show (18-21 July) which includes the British young horse championships and an invitation-only grand prix k ¼r.
This news story was first published in the current issue of Horse & Hound (6 October, 2011)
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A self-confessed newshound, farmer’s daughter and journalist of many years' experience, Charlotte worked on regional papers before joining H&H in 2007. A regular rider, she visited Ireland in 2010 to investigate the fate of Irish horses through the recession, to much acclaim, and reported from the FEI General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. She left Horse & Hound in March 2013.