FEI International Groom Award
The British Grooms Association (BGA) is delighted to announce that one of its most prolific members, Jenny Ellis, has been awarded the highest accolade. For 2008 the FEI have introduced a new initiative, the ‘International Groom Award’ and Jenny has been selected by the Athletes Committee, which is chaired by Paralympian Lee Pearson, to be its first ever winner.
Jenny has won an all expenses paid trip to Buenos Aires where she will pick up her Award at the FEI’s General Assembly. On learning she had won, Jenny told us, “I am extremely honoured and proud to win this award. I hope it will help to give inspiration and incentive to all grooms, and to realise that the vocational job that we do is now becoming recognised worldwide. When I started out, there were a few turnout classes we could win, but I never dreamt that anything like this could ever happen, especially to me. Now with the help and recognition of the BGA and the FEI, I feel we are credited as a much more vital part of the team.”
Jenny was put forward for the award by John Whitaker, Richard Davison and Simon Laurens via their nomination for the 2007 Kuster BEF Groom Award, Lucy Katan from the BGA explained, “I was approached by the FEI asking if we could nominate a British groom for this new award and it was an obvious choice to put forward our most recent winner of the British groom award. I am delighted that the FEI have created this award and proud that a British groom and BGA member has won it.”
There are just two weeks left to enter the prestigious 2008 Kuster BEF Groom Award, which closes on 24 November, with the chance to win a £1,000 holiday.
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