Competitors Earning Their Way to the First FEI World Reining Masters Finals
11/4/2004 By: By Carol Trimmer, NRHA
With Javier Alvarez Malo's win aboard Hot Little Line at the CRI-Catagory B reining event held in Mexico, the competitors for the FEI World Reining Masters Finals are falling into line.The National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) is proud to host the first-ever $100,000 FEI World Reining Masters Finals, presented by NetJets, a provider of fractional aircraft ownership. The Classic S Ranch, NRHA, American Quarter Horse Association and the Reining Horse Sports Foundation have also joined forces to make the FEI World Reining Masters Finals a very lucrative, rewarding event for all contestants. The event will be held in conjunction with the NRHA Futurity & World Championship Show, November 25-December 4, 2004 and the world’s best reiners will meet in Oklahoma City, OK, to represent their countries in this historic and much anticipated international event.
To date, the following riders have qualified to represent their respective countries:
Austria: Rudi Kronsteiner
Belgium: Ann Poels
Canada: Francois Gauthier, Cody Sapergia
Czech Republic: Lukas Jirak
Dominican Republic: Louis Orizondo
France: Franck Perret
Germany: Volker Schmitt, Steffen Breug
Great Britain: Doug Allen, Francesca Sternberg
Israel: Shai Kaneti
Italy: Aldo Lorenzoni, Dario Carmignani
Mexico: Javier Alvarez-Malo
Netherlands: Rieky Young
Sweden: Fredrik Thomsson
Switzerland: Jeannette Kraehenbuehl
United States: Todd Crawford, Todd Sommers