FEI European Calendar

Since we are starting 2018, in Saddlebox we want to make a small analysis about the amount of World Cups that will be held in Europe during this year. Obtaining the list of events from the official FEI website (very good tool, by the way), we observed that there are the already known events and some more to highlight.

It will be a year full of trips, full of championships and where riders with a Saddlebox product will be able to put our high quality lockers to the test. In some blogs, they estimate that the costs assumed by professional riders can amount up to € 200,000 per season, something not insignificant considering that in many cases they will not exceed this amount with the income derived from prizes in the competitions themselves.

How many World Cups are there in Europe for the discipline of Jumping? Exactly 32 events are planned distributed throughout 21 countries, which makes it essential to have a good truck to transport horses with all the guarantees and a high quality portable tack locker to protect all equestrian equipment. The best way. The countries that will hold more Jumping World Cups will be Poland and France with 3 events each.

What’s up in Dressage? There are 25 calls distributed in 16 countries, so the calendar is not short either. In this case, Russia will be the only country hosting 4 competitions (almost all in the summer months, fortunately). Making a small calculation with the help of Google Maps and assuming that a professional dressage rider would like to compete in one of every 3 European World Cups, we count more than 12,000km of road ahead and therefore about 120h of journey (without counting on the return to origin after each championship). Of course, with these amounts of kilometers for 2018, it seems necessary to have a good portable tack locker.