2007 European Junior/Young Rider Championships

Hungarian Junior Riders Team Selected for the 2007 European Championships

July 2, 2007

The Hungarian Equestrian Federation has announced the junior riders team which will represent Hungaria at the 2007 European Junior and Young Riders Championships in Nussloch, Germany, on July 10-15, 2007.

The Hungarian junior riders team consists of:

• Máté Garai - Romero
• Zsofia Samoly - Winnie Bo
• Lili Bertha - Latino S
• Nandor Kafka - Westpfingst

Peter Pachl, Hungarian chef d’équipe, will join the juniors in Nussloch for their historic participation in the 2007 European Championships. It is the first time in history that Hungaria will be represented at the European JR-YR Championships with a full junior riders dressage team.

The 2007 show season has been an extremely successful one for the Hungarian junior riders. Never before have Hungarian youth riders produced such good achievements at international competitions in Europe as now.

Mate Garai has been the anchor rider. Aboard Romero (by Ritual), Garai placed second at the CDI-JR in Barzago, Italy, scoring 68.45% in the individual test and 69% in the finals. At the CDI Mariakalnok, he scored 67.08% in the individual test and 67.45% in the finals in which he placed fourth.

Garai is backed up by the talented Zsofia Samoly who has produced very consistent scores this season, reaching marks in the upper sixties aboard the mare Winnie Bo, her 8-year old Hanoverian mare by Wolkentanz I. At the CDI Mariakalnok, Samoly and Winnie Bo scored 67.08% in the individual test and 67.1% in the finals, placing fifth among some of the best junior riders in Europe.

Nandor Kafka already competed at the 2005 and 2006 European Junior Riders Championships with Record, but is now saddling his new horse Westpfingst for the championships in Nussloch. Lili Bertha is making her championship debut.

Photos: top to bottom:
Lili Bertha
Mate Garai
Zsofia Samoly
Nandor Kafka

Related Links
Back to the 2007 ECJYR Index
Scores 2007 CDI Barzago, Italy
Scores 2007 CDI Mariakalnok, Hungaria
How a Dressage Carreer Starts in Hungary: The Máté Garai Case Study