Everything Horse magazine Magazine, October 2014 | Page 14

Alltech
Competition
Winner’s Trip
to Remember
Emmie Foxall didn’t let the soggy
conditions dampen her experience
at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian
Games in Normandy.
Emmie was the lucky winner of a
Facebook competition last August and
won tickets to see the dressage at the
Games. The competition was set up to
mark the one year countdown to the
start of the Games, so Emmie was one
of very few people who knew she had
secured tickets well in advance of this
much anticipated event.
Dressage fan Emmie was thrilled
to learn she had won the tickets to
attend a session of the Team Dressage
competition, and also a session of the
Para Team Dressage.
In the run up to the Games rumours of

accommodation
being booked
up and travel
difficulties began
to circulate,
however
Emmie and her
family easily
found flights,
car hire and
accommodation.
Emmie decided to make the trip to
the Games into a short holiday to
France for her family with her Mum
accompanying her to the dressage.
The beautiful Normandy countryside
provided her partner and her Dad with
plenty to do while Emmie and her
mum enjoyed a day of ‘playing ponies’.
When the day arrived they were
dropped off right outside The
D’Ornano Stadium in the heart of
Caen.
“The organisation was fantastic with
numerous Games officials on hand to
answer any questions and point you in
the right direction; everything ran very
smoothly despite the wet