{"id":8133,"date":"2024-06-10T12:58:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T09:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helsinkihorseshow.fi\/uncategorized\/helsinki-horse-show-faces-major-changes-comments-from-the-equestrian-world\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T15:43:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T12:43:27","slug":"helsinki-horse-show-faces-major-changes-comments-from-the-equestrian-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helsinkihorseshow.fi\/en\/news\/helsinki-horse-show-faces-major-changes-comments-from-the-equestrian-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Helsinki Horse Show Faces Major Changes &#8211; Comments from the Equestrian World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Helsinki Horse Show takes a significant leap towards the 2030\u00b4s!<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The five-star Helsinki event moves permanently to larger premises at the Helsinki Fair Centre<\/li>\n<li>From 2026 onwards, the Horse Show will be the final event in the Western European World Cup League<\/li>\n<li>Valtteri Gundersby, a 31-year-old lawyer and equestrian, will take over leadership responsibilities as the new CEO of the organizing company, BCM Scanhorse Ltd. Long-time Event Director, Tom Gordin will continue over a three-year transition period.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22118 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/helsinkihorseshow.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Anckarkrona-1-300x200-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Henrik Ankarcrona<\/strong>, Captain of the Swedish Gold Team<br \/>\n&#8220;To combine G\u00f6teborg Horse Show and Helsinki Horse Show is for sure a much appreciated improvement for the international riders. These two top events will give lots of valuable World Cup points on the way to the Final\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22115 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/helsinkihorseshow.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/EB373CD8-B428-4B51-8D99-2F3E6B76388E-231x300-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" \/>Maria Gretzer<\/strong>, former Olympic rider and FEI rider representative<br \/>\n\u201dGreat news from the Helsinki plans! It indeed suits with G\u00f6teborg Horse Show the week before. The international riders will love it &#8211; two great World Cup events in the Nordic region\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22116 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/helsinkihorseshow.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/original-5D2B1F6F-843E-4332-99B5-59B4EAA3DC8E-300x195-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/>Guilherme Jorge<\/strong>, Olympic Course Designer<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m very excited with the new home for 2026 HIHS . We will have a bigger arena with approximately 75m x 35m what will allow both the competitors and our course designing team to create even better sport! Great news!\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helsinki Horse Show takes a significant leap towards the 2030\u00b4s! The five-star Helsinki event moves permanently to larger premises at the Helsinki Fair Centre From 2026 onwards, the Horse Show will be the final event in the Western European World Cup League Valtteri Gundersby, a 31-year-old lawyer and equestrian, will take over leadership responsibilities as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-front-page-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helsinkihorseshow.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helsinkihorseshow.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helsinkihorseshow.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helsinkihorseshow.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helsinkihorseshow.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helsinkihorseshow.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12810,"href":"https:\/\/helsinkihorseshow.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133\/revisions\/12810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helsinkihorseshow.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helsinkihorseshow.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helsinkihorseshow.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helsinkihorseshow.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}