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Welcome to France !

This year France is venue of the eagerly awaited Annual Meetings of the World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses. As organizer of the event we are very happy to welcome all participants, guests and friends of equestrian sports and breeding. In close co-operation with WBFSH the Stud-Book Selle Francais and Association Nationale Anglo Arabe has been looking forward to hosting this year’s event, to showing you our horses and to giving you a taste of French lifestyle. By the schedule of the venue, we want to show you the diversity of French Horse industry from history of the French Horse Tradition in Saumur to the future with the WBFSH young eventers world championship in Le Lion d’Angers. We wish all participants and guests some fantastic days in this special region of France, and hope you will find some useful and inspiring information in this small leaflet. Pascal CADIOU Chairman of Stud-Book Selle Français

Bus stops

Ibis Hotel

Adagio Hotel

Mercure Hotel

Welcome Cocktail theater

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Official Hotels

These 3 hotels are located close to the historical center of Saumur.

Delegates of the WBFSH have a special reservation form for booking a room at these hotels, which gives you a special WBFSH room rate; please use that if you did not already book your accommodation.

The railways station is accessible by foot to every hotel (less than 500 m).

The buses that to go to French Riding School will pick you up every mornings at the round-about close to your hotel.

Hotel information: Code WBFSH for these hotels:

Mercure – Bords de Loire - 1 Rue du vieux pont – 49400 Saumur

Tel : +33241672242 – email : h6648@accor.com Prize : From 119 € to 167 € per night, breakfast included

Ibis Styles Saumur Gare Centre - 15 Avenue David d’Angers – 49400 Saumur

Tel : +33241673101 – email : h8820@accor.com Prize : 88 € per night, breakfast included for twin rooms 78 € per night, breakfast included for single rooms

Best Western Adagio Saumur - 94 Avenue du Général de Gaulle – 49400 Saumur

Tel : +33241674530 – email : contact@hoteladagio.com Prize : 86 € per night, breakfast included These hotels have a limited number of rooms avalaible, don’t wait to book the rooms you want. Opening hours of the French WBFSH desk:

- at Mercure Hotel: Wednesday October 16th 5 to 6 pm - at National riding school: Thursday October 17th lunch time 12.30 – 13.30

Hotel Mercure 1 Rue du vieux pont

Hotel Adagio 94 Avenue du Général de Gaulle

Ibis Styles (in front of railway station) 15 Avenue David d’Angers

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Facts in general How to come to Saumur:

Airport Nearest airport:

Nantes Atlantique. From this airport you need to take a taxi to the train station in Nantes. Paris airports (Roissy-Charles de Gaulle or Orly) From CDG there is a train to Gare du Nord in Paris.

By train

From Paris: 2h to 2h40 (from Gare Montparnasse to Tours or St Pierre des Corps then Saumur or by Angers, then Saumur. Remember extra travel hours by train and metro from airport to Gare Montparnasse.)

From Nantes: 1h30 (direct train Nantes to Saumur)

Information on French trains: https://en.oui.sncf/en

By car Paris - Saumur: 3h (autoroutes A11 and A85, exit Saumur) Nantes - Saumur: 1h30 (autoroutes A11 and A85) Angers - Saumur: 45 minutes Tours - Saumur: 45 minutes

Bus for excursion & shuttle bus to and from hotel and Le Lion D’Angers etc. See in the programme when a bus will take you to and from an event. The buses will depart from the hotel.

Cars from airport Car rental companies are available at the airport; a reservation is recommended.

Cell phones Please respect the speakers during the presentations by turning off your cell phones or muting the sound.

Currency & Electricity supply In France you pay in Euro and we provide 220V.

Help If you have a problem please contact a French representative at the Information Desk, or: Bérengère Lacroix, SF, cell: 0033 763 84 96 73 Guillaume Blanc, IFCE, cell: 0033 688 21 60 09 Karina Christiansen, cell: 0045 20 77 09 70

Insurance It is the participant’s own responsibility to have personal and travel insurance. WBFSH and the French organizers will not accept any liability for personal injuries, loss or damage of property.

Lost Property If you miss or find articles of property, please refer to the hotel reception or a French representative.

Official language The official working language at the annual meetings is English. Sessions of commissions and lectures will not be translated.

Presented papers After the annual meetings, the WBFSH secretary will collect all presented papers electronically and publish them on the website. All presentations will be published on the www.wbfsh.org in a light version easy to download.

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Facts about Saumur Nestling in the heart of the Anjou vineyards, the medieval town of Saumur, nicknamed the pearl of Anjou, is a very scenic place with its magnificent turreted château overlooking the Loire Valley and old town stretching along the wild river. Surrounded by fortifications, the castle of the Dukes of Anjou is houses a decorative arts museum and a horse museum. It also offers a stunning panoramic view over the roofs of the town and the Loire River.

Below, the historic centre of Saumur is the perfect place for a stroll – along the narrow streets edged by old houses and around Saint-Pierre square where there are old timber-framed houses and a church containing stalls and tapestries. Worth seeing as well: the Notre-Dame-de-Nantilly Romanesque church, which contains a magnificent 16th- and 17th-century tapestry collection.

Saumur is known for being the city of horses and good wine. With 49,000 acres and 32 AOCs, this region is the reflection of a rich palette: dry or sweet whites and rosés, red wines of character and fine sparkling wines. A green and golden triangle, drawn from Montsoreau to the Puy-Notre-Dame and to Saumur, encloses not only some of the best views in the region but also some of the best tastes. This land of vineyards has its celebrities: Saumur-Champigny, the sweet Coteaux de Saumur, and the sparkling Saumur Brut and Crémant de Loire. Under the wing of the Minister for Health, Youth and Sport, the National Riding School is founded on the knowledge and experience of the ecuyers (Riding Masters) of the Cadre Noir who have rediscovered their ancestry at Saumur. Address of the Cadre Noir/Ecole Nationale d’Equitation (ENE): Avenue de L’Ecole Nationale d’Equitation, 49400 Saint-Hilaire-Saint-Florent

More information on the Saumur website: www.ot-saumur.fr/SAUMUR-INVITATION-TO-TRAVEL_r56.html

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The history of WBFSH How did it start? When the level of sport started to increase in the late 1970’s and 80’s, and as the warmblood type began to develop into a more athletic horse, there was no connection between breeding and sport. Pedigree information on starting lists was lacking or completely absent. There was little to no co-operation and communication between individual studbooks and no exchange of information. The discussion of how to grow the recognition and visibility of breeding, breeders, and studbooks lead to the idea of developing a world studbook competition. HRH Princess Anne, who was the FEI President from 1986 to 1994, invited a group of people from the main European countries where the Sport Horse was starting to have a great economic influence to a meeting in Appeldoorn (Netherlands) on the 4th of September 1988. This was followed by a meeting at Buckingham Palace in December 1988 and Badminton in May 1989, to further discuss how to create a network of contacts, organise a young horse championship of the studbooks, what guidelines to set for the championships, and how studbook rankings could be produced.

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It took three years of diplomatic efforts and logistical planning until the World Breeding Championship for Sport Horses (WBCSH) took place in Maastricht (Netherlands) in November 1992. This was not yet a young horse competition. The Hanoverian studbook won as a team, with 6 of the best horses of the year. Leon Melchior, the founder of studbook Zangersheide, and who bred the Olympic Champion of Barcelona 1992 Ratina Z, was awarded Breeder of the Year, and Ratina Z was named Horse of the Year.

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On the 19th of November 1994, the World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses was officially founded in Berlin/Germany. The first president to be elected was Gert Jan van Muijen (NED). HRH Princess Anne was the Federation’s first patron. At this time there were already 25 studbooks involved. The first World Breeding Jumping Championship at Zangersheide in Lanaken Belgium took place in September 1995 – pictured here is the cover of the program of this first WBFSH championship. After the success of the jumping championship it was decided to expand the competition into the disciplines of dressage and later also eventing. Today our federation has grown to over 75 studbook members in 34 countries on 5 continents.

The first logos of WBFSH

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List of General Assemblies in the WBFSH during the decades Year / City and country … 1994: Aachen, Germany 1995: Brussels (17.02.) Belgium and Aachen (30.06.), Germany 1996: Geneve, Switzerland, hosted by CH-Sportpferde 1997: s'Hertogenbosch hosted by KWPN & 1. WBFSH seminar in Flyinge, Sweden, hosted by SWB 1998: Herning, Denmark, hosted by DWB 1999: Lion d’Angers, France, hosted by ANSF 2000: Itzehoe (Germany), hosted by HANN, TRAKH & HOLST 2001: S. Giovanni Lupatolo (VR), Italy, hosted by UNIRE 2002: Budapest, Hungary, hosted by HSH 2003: Dublin, Ireland, hosted by IHB 2004: Guadalajara, Mexico, hosted by CCDM 2005: Brussels, Belgium, hosted by BWP 2006: Verden, Germany, hosted by HANN 2007: Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, hosted by KWPN 2008: Lyon, France, hosted by ANSF 2009: Copenhagen, Denmark and Flyinge, Sweden, hosted by DWB, NWB, FWB and SWB 2010: Philadelphia, USA, hosted by ISREG 2011: Seville, Spain, hosted by ANCCE 2012: Newmarket, UK, hosted by BHHS 2013: Warsaw, Poland, hosted by the PHZK 2014: Sao Paolo, Brazil, hosted by the ABCCH 2015: Vienna, Austria, hosted by the AWÖ 2016: Geneva, Switzerland, hosted by the ZVCH2017: Billund, Denmark, hosted by Danish Warmblood 2018: Budapest, Hungary, hosted by MSLT 2019: Saumur, France, hosted by IFCE, Selle Francais, and French Anglo Arab

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Did you notice that…

at our website www.wbfsh.org it is now possible to find:

the social media links to many of our members?? The equine data bases of members or their national

equine databases??

Check out our Members page

Are your studbook’s database and social media links not displayed yet??

Then found out how via the link above!

www.wbfsh.org

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Send your most relevant news and calendar information to

news@wbfsh.org

(Stallion licensings, Mare of the Year, Young Horse Championships, auctions, etc.)

Remember to inform about the WBFSH

in your home country!

Please refer to the WBFSH homepage in your studbook publications

AND PLEASE LINK TO US from your own studbook websites!!

www.wbfsh.org

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Going to Le Lioin d*Angers on your own?? Then look here at “Getting here”