The weekend of June 25-27th will be a particularly exceptional one. The Monaco stage of the Global Champions Tour, acknowledged as the most glamorous of the series, will be hosting the world’s most celebrated riders in a setting facing out over the world’s most beautiful yachts, and framed by the Port Hercule and Prince’s palace. Three unique days, with enthusiastic competitors already biting at the bit to test themselves against a richly challenging event meticulously prepared by a course designer of international renown.
The course being prepared for the 2009 Jumping International of Monte Carlo is both excellent and somewhat fiendish, the designer having created a technically challenging event. The most supremely skilled horse and rider pairings will deploy the full extent of their majestic complicity in attempting to secure this competition’s well endowed prize. The crowning glory of the Monaco stage of the Global Champions Tour is the Prince Albert II of Monaco Grand Prix, awarded at a ceremony broadcast live on the Eurosport channel – a frolicking event that for the many passionate admirers of the noble beast, it alone warrants a visit to the Principality.
Extreme concentration, shrewd and elegant complicity, are all embodied in this timeless, and fabled partnership between horse and rider. Add to that the idyllic setting that is the Principality of Monaco, and a flawless organisational dynamic, and you deliver an equally fabled Jumping event. Set alongside the world’s most beautiful yachts, the Port Hercule will host a rolling succession of trials – the galloping pace of events sure to leave us all quite breathless. The Monaco stage of the Global Champions Tour: three truly exceptional and spellbinding days.