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South Africa's top show-jumpers have started arriving in Port Elizabeth for four-days of competition at the PE riding club in Lorraine.
The action gets underway on Thursday morning 14 November and entry is free - and it culminates in the Nissan World Cup qualifier on Sunday afternoon.
With Jade Hooke in the UK, chasing her Olympic dream, the Eastern Cape's hopes rest with Grahamstown-based Carey Pohl.
Barry and Lorette Taylor and Dominey Alexander are always a force to be reckoned with and young Cape Town rider Liam Stevens is back as the defending champion.
The organisers have secured the services of former World Champion and Olympic Bronze medallist Frederic Cottier - whose in South Africa for the first time as the official course designer.
The Frenchman is the head course designer for the World Equestrian Games in Normandy next year.
He says the way he sets up his courses over the next four days will depend very much on the form shown by the South African riders.
"In fact I want to be quite progressive because I don't know the riders and I don't know the horses," he told AlgoaFM sport. "The first day on Thursday I will be quite easy on the competitors and horses, just to get an idea of the level they're at. The plan is to get progressively more difficult as we build up to the grand prix and world cup qualifier events on Sunday."
Wednesday
In the afternoon the Veterinary check
Thursday
Morning
1m to 1.20m Welcome Stakes
Afternoon
1.30m to 1.40m A2 competition
Friday
Morning
1.30m-1.40m Welcome Stakes
Lunchtime
1.50m Nissan Grand Prix
After this class
1.20m – 1m Competition in 2 phases
Saturday
Morning
1m to 1.20m Championships
Lunchtime
1.50m Accumulator with the Joker
Afternoon
1.40m-1.30m Competition in 2 phases
Nissan 6 bar competition
R15000 – winner takes all
Sunday
08h00
1.30m Championships
1.35 Championships
12h00 to 13h00 Lunch Break
1.50m World Cup Qualifier Class
The Public will be invited to walk the course
The last class of the show
1.40m First For Horses
Mini Grand Prix
pictured left to right: Local Organiser Tanja Radke, Frederic Cottier, and German steward Vanessa Szabo paying AlgoaFM a visit
