
On July 28, 2007 Alfares equestrian complex in Tver region hosted the 10th Anniversary Zavidovo Show Jumping Cup, sponsored by Alfares and the League of Amateur Equestrian Sports.
This year the prize fund of the anniversary tournament amounted to 1.7 million roubles. The winners were Arthur Bagdasarian on the horse Concorde (Moscow region) (first place on route №3, Grand Prix, 150-centimetre obstacles); Elena Gens on the horse Grizu (Moscow region) (first place on route №2, Tver Governor's Cup, 140-centimetre obstacles); and Igor Terekhov on the horse Otlet (St. Petersburg) (first place on route №1, amateur equestrians' competition, 105 - 115-centimetre obstacles).
Apart from professional riders, the tournament was open to prominent amateur equestrians. The VIP race included the RF president's information policy assistance and special representative of the RF president at the European Union Sergey Yastrjembsky, founder of Alfares equestrian complex Rami Al-Shaer and prominent business people including Boris Maltsev, Sergey Strangin, Yuri Krasnov, Sergey Kuznetsov, Sergey Doroshenko, Boris Namin. All of them enjoyed jumping the obstacles riding fiery racing horses. The VIP race was won by Yuri Krasnov on the horse Podobny.
Zavidovo Jumping Cup is not just an exciting equestrian competition but a unique society event. This year it was attended by such celebrities as TV anchor Yana Poplavskaya with husband Sergey Ginsburg, singer Alena Sviridova, singer Irsen Kudikova, host of Programma Maximum TV show Gleb Pyanykh, actress Alena Bondarchuk, Boris Teterev (Musa Motors company), Oleg Mitvol (Deputy head of Federal Environmental Monitoring Service), Sergey Plastinin (Wimm Bill Dunn company) and many others. The entertainment programme of the Zavidovo Cup was pleasantly varied.
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