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The Spanish team taking part in the Longines FEI Nations Cup Final which will start at the Real Club de Polo de Barcelona next Thursday, September 28^th  has just been published

Eduardo Álvarez Aznar arrives to Barcelona with Dollar Girl 46 and Rockefeller of Pleville Bois Margot, Julio Arias does it with Lennox Luis and Reggae du Tillard, Manuel Fernandez Saro will ride Cuidam and Santiago del Blondel, Gerardo Menéndez Mieres arrives with Cassino DC and Costello DC and Laura Roquet with Cachaca and Sandi Puigroq.

This morning, the Saló de Cròniques (Hall of Chronicles) of the Barcelona City Hall, hosted the presentation of the obstacle “L’Eixample”, within the framework of CSIO Barcelona 2017, the oldest international competition in Spain.

The obstacle, which represents the street layout of the Eixample District, has been designed by Maica Avenido and Jialen Yangji, students of the prestigious Escola Massana Art and Design Center, whose project won the third edition of the contest “A Jump for the City”, an initiative supported by the Barcelona Equestrian Challenge. 

For the second year in a row CSIO Barcelona offers the official App for mobile devices and tablets. The app will allow fans to receive up-to-the minute news on all the main competition developments. During the event, you’ll be able to follow the riders’ progress with the ‘Live Score’ feature, while away from the competitive action, the app will keep you up to date with the other programmed activities. You’ll also be able to exchange invitations for tickets, buy tickets and receive offers and exclusive free gifts from our sponsors.

Next Monday, September 18 at 12:00 p.m., the obstacle will be officially presented in front of Barcelona’s City Council. In addition to the two project designers, David Escudé, Barcelona City Council’s Commissioner for Sport; Emilio Zegrí, Real Club de Polo de Barcelona Foundation President; Santiago Mercé, CSIO Barcelona President; and Daniel Garcia Giró, CSIO Barcelona Director, will be present at the event.

With less than a month to go to the start of CSIO Barcelona 2017, everything at the Real Polo Club de Barcelona (RPCB) is in place to welcome the world's best riders and horses. From September 28^th  to October 1^st , the Barcelona club's Olympic facilities will play host to Spain's oldest international sporting event, which this year celebrates its 106th edition. Over four thrilling days in Barcelona, more than 40,000 spectators will be treated to the very best of equestrian sport at an event that will also be celebrating a very special double-anniversary: 120 years since the foundation of the RPCB, and 25 years since the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games.

Longines will become title partner of the FEI Nations Cup™ Jumping series as part of a long-term agreement with the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI), with the new partnership being celebrated at next month’s Final at the CSIO Barcelona in the Real Club de Polo. Longines, which became the FEI’s first Top Partner in 2013, has also extended its global partnership with the FEI in a historic agreement signed in Gothenburg (SWE) today.

This edition, the CSIO Barcelona will work with two new partners. HOLA has just signed an agreement as media partner of the Barcelona International Jumping Course, while Cavalleria Toscana, a company which produces sports clothing for riders, will be co-sponsor of the event. 

The current president of the Federació Catalana d’Hípica (Catalonian Equestrian Federation), vice president of the Real Federación Hípica Española (Royal Spanish Equestrian Federation), and until now, CSIO Barcelona president, Emilio Zegrí Boada, has been appointed the new president of the Real Club de Polo de Barcelona Foundation, replacing Luis Comas Martínez de Tejada, who held the position for the past five years.

The day has finally arrived! After the stellar performance at the Final Party of the Joc dels Jocs this June, Olímpic, the fiberglass horse that stars in the second edition of the #bcnalgalop action at the Barcelona Equestrian Challenge (BECH), has arrived at the Tibidabo this morning. The horse was designed and painted by the students at Virolai Grimm school in Barcelona, and will make a tour of Barcelona this summer, with Tibidabo amusement park being the first stop. The horse will visit various locations in anticipation of the most exciting equestrian competition of the year in September: the CSIO Barcelona.

Maica Avenido and Jialen Yangji from the Massana School in Barcelona have won the latest edition of the “A Jump for the City” competition, with their project entitled “L’Eixample”. This obstacle, still in the form of a model, will be built at the Real Club de Polo carpentry shop and will become part of the CSIO Barcelona 2017 courses.