As the COVID-19 situation continues to make summer horse show dates a moving target, Horse Sport reached out to Chris Pack, Chief Operating Officer and Tournament Manager of Thunderbird Show Park in Langley, BC, to see what was happening at this popular and normally busy venue.

For the first time in Thunderbird Show Parkโ€™s 47-year history, Tbird had to cancel both the Canadian Premier, May 19-24 and the Odlum Brown BC Open, May 26-31, and had been working with the FEI to hopefully postpone the CSIO5* Nations Cup event to one of the parkโ€™s August tournaments. However, โ€œDue to the FEI announcing that the Nations Cup would not be a qualifier, we wonโ€™t be running it again until next year, but instead will focus on the ATCO and VOLVO Canada Cup in August (fingers crossed!),โ€ said Pack.

A couple of weeks ago it was announced that entries for the June, July, and September outdoor tournaments would open April 26th, but that has recently changed, โ€œI wish we had better news, but we had to push back our opening for the June/July shows to May 20th as things are still too uncertain at the moment.โ€ The Tbird management team is also currently working to offer an additional week of competition September 16โ€“20

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