William Fox Pitt recently had an candid discussion about his feelings towards the CIC competition and it's value to the sport...
William Fox-Pitt: 'I'd like to see CIC competitions binned'
8 March, 2011British event rider and former H&H columnist William Fox-Pitt is opposed to the dramatic rise in international one-day competitions (CICs) in eventing in Britain, as he told H&H in our exclusive interview in 3 March issue.
"Why do we have to do CICs in this country rather than one-days? What is the real difference? Absolutely nothing," says William. "Apart from the fact your entry costs you a lot more, you have to be there for more days and you have to do lots of trot-ups. That isn't about producing horses correctly, nor safety.
"I'd like to see CICs binned; their only purpose is to create a level standard across the different eventing countries, which the FEI is never going to achieve. The FEI could perfectly well make a rule that, if you compete in Britain, your advanced result will count, but that in Brazil, for example, it has to be a three-star CIC. I don't see why a nation can't be graded as to what it provides." Read On >>
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