LEADING event rider William Fox-Pitt, has been selected to represent Great Britain at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games (September 23-October 10).
The Sturminster Newton rider (41), who is on the British Equestrian Federation’s World Class Performance Programme, will ride Chipping Norton-based Teresa Stopford-Sackville’s Cool Mountain at the Games – which are being held in Kentucky.
Fox-Pitt was the first British rider to become eventing’s world number one, a distinction he achieved in 2002 and again in 2009. He has represented his country consistently over the past 15 years, winning team bronze at the 2004 Athens Olympics, team silver at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, team bronze at the 2002 World Equestrian Games in Jerez and team silver at the 2006 World Equestrian Games in Aachen.
He also collected seven team gold medals at the European Championships and has been the British number one seven times. Fox-Pitt said: “It is a great honour to have been selected as a member of the British squad for the World Equestrian Games in Kentucky. “I am very fortunate that Cool Mountain has performed so consistently this season and I am very excited for his owner Teresa Stopford-Sackville who has owned him since he was a yearling.”
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