Sixty Countries Plan to send Teams to Compete at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games

The World Games 2010 Foundation is pleased to announce that 60 National Federations have submitted entries in principle for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games.

In 2006, 59 countries sent teams to compete in the World Equestrian Games in Aachen, Germany. This year, most of the same countries will be represented in Kentucky along with the addition of teams from Bermuda, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, India, Lebanon, Paraguay, Singapore, Turkey and Uruguay. Teams that did attend in 2006 but will be absent from this year’s Games are Antigua, Georgia, Estonia, Belarus, Jamaica, Libya, Slovenia, Croatia, Oman and Netherlands Antilles.

This year’s competitors are:

Argentina	France	Norway
Australia	Germany	Paraguay
Austria	Great Britain	Poland
Belgium	Greece	Portugal
Bermuda	Guatemala	Qatar
Brazil	Hungary	Russia
Bahrain	India	Saudi Arabia
Bulgaria	Ireland	Singapore
Canada	Israel	Slovakia
Chile	Italy	South Africa
China	Japan	Spain
Columbia	Jordan	Sweden
Costa Rica	Lebanon	Switzerland
Czech Republic	Lithuania	Syria
Denmark	Luxembourg	Turkey
Dominican Republic	Malaysia	Ukraine
Ecuador	Mexico	United Arab Emirates
Egypt	Namibia	Uruguay
El Salvador	Netherlands	United States
Finland	New Zealand	Venezuela

With 60 countries expressing an interest in attendance at the Games, the World Games 2010 Foundation anticipates as many as 800 athletes could compete. The world championships for eight equestrian sports will be contested September 25 -October 10 at Lexington’s Kentucky Horse Park. Final entries and individual athletes will be named in August.

Tickets for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games are available for competition in all eight disciplines. Grounds Pass tickets are also available. Visit www.alltechfeigames.com/tickets, visit any local Ticketmaster outlet or call 1-800-745-3000.