UAE contingent look to reclaim Royal Windsor Endurance honours

Some of the UAE's top endurance athletes have joined forces as part of a potent 31-rider UAE contingent that will look to reclaim the honours at Royal Windsor Endurance 2025 on Friday.

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The event at Windsor Great Park in the United Kingdom is an FEI competition comprising 3*, 2* and 1* rides with an international field of horses, riders, trainers, grooms and support crew.

The CEI3* competition is the longest and most arduous of the three events and challenges rider-horse pairings along a 160 km course split into five phases. Meanwhile, the CEI2* and CEI1* events are four-phase 120 km and three-phase 100 km rides, respectively. The endurance competition is part of the larger Royal Windsor Horse Show.

Emirati riders have won six of the 11 editions of Royal Windsor Endurance since its commencement in 2013, making the UAE the most successful nation in the history of the event with past Emirati champions including Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister of the UAE and Minister of Defence, who helped the UAE defend the title in the second edition in 2014 after Rashed Mohammed Al Baloushi's victory in the inaugural event in 2013.