ESUK Championship
This show is affiliated to Equine Sports UK (ESUK) Grassroots Championships taking place at Arena UK, Grantham, Lincolnshire on the 31st July – 1st August 2025. The three highest placed exhibits will qualify in each class.
To register go to https://equinesportsuk.com/register/registration-form. Please only register once! If you are in doubt about whether you have already registered AND/OR have misplaced your membership number, please email info@equinesportsuk.com.
DDRC Shows between April and September 2025 inclusive include qualifiers for ESUK.
Qualifiers for ESUK 2025 will run until 20th July 2025. Qualifiers for ESUK 2026 will run from the 21st July 2025. Shows after this date will automatically be included for ESUK 2025.
Equine Sports UK Grassroots Championships are held solely for grass-roots competitors. We respectfully remind all competitors to enter in the spirit of grassroots championships.
To avoid confusion our definition of Grassroots is as follows:
Definition of a grassroots rider – a person who engages in the most basic level of horse-riding (as opposed to an amateur – a person who engages in a pursuit, especially a sport, on an unpaid basis)
The following restrictions apply and are excluded from the Championships:
Professional Riders, (those who make a full-time living out of buying, selling, producing, breaking, schooling, teaching, grooming, training or competing).
Horses/Ponies/Riders combination not to have qualified or competed in any classes at Olympia, RIHS or Horse of the Year Show including Search for a Star in the past five years.
Rider not to have ridden at Olympia, RIHS, Horse of the Year Show including Search for a Star in the past five years.
IF YOU HAVE ANY DOUBT ABOUT YOUR ELIGIBILITY TO COMPETE AT ESUK, PLEASE CONTACT US BEFORE ENTERING.
WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO DISQUALIFY ANYONE WHO ENTERS THE CHAMPIONSHIPS IF THEY ARE REPORTED AND FOUND TO BE INELIGIBLE.