Photo credit: (c) Transylvania Horse Show website

Competitors and fans from 14 countries participated this weekend in the fifth edition of the Transylvania Horse Show that ran in the Prod village, 16 km from Sighisoara city. The event enjoyed a 4,000-strong audience who came to relax in the heart of nature, enjoy the competition and delve into the secrets of horsemanship.

Transylvania Horse Show featured three types of competitions: Concours Complet International (CCI*); Romanian Cup Eventing — Novices and Pre-novices class, a section intended for young horses and competitors with less experience in eventing competitions; and Student Riders Nations Cup (AIEC Student Riders Nation Cup — Romania 2015), organized together with the Association International des Etudiants Cavaliers (AIEC).

Calin Nemes on horse Eros won the gold in the international eventing with a total score of 67.9; Viorel Bubau on horse Rustic came in second with a score of 95.7 points.

For this section of the competition, the riders had to go through three trials: dressage, obstacles and cross-country.

At the Novices class, Calin Nemes came on top once again, this time on Funny Flight, with 57.6 points. Second was Orsolya Juhasz on Romantic Boy (61.6 points), and Monica Zagan on horse Avalanche (70.3 points) claimed the third position.

At the Pre-novices class, the top rider was Adrian Gherghina on horse Epic (58.7 points), while Timea Kovacs on mount Yavrum was the winner in the Pre-novices Children category (62.7 points).

The Romanian team made up of riders Cristian Ceausescu, Bogdan Leonte and Raul Ilioi won for the first time the Student Riders Nations Cup; team Germany won the silver and Austria — the bronze.

In the individual competition, Austrian student Katharina Wilding won the gold, Belgium’s Kaeye Anne claimed the silver and the bronze went to German student Alexandra von der Leyen.

The Transylvania Horse Show 2011, 2012 and 2014 editions received the AIEC “Competition of the Year” award. AGERPRES