Name: Jacqueline Cann

Nationality: British

Number of years in U.A.E.: 5

Qualifications: BHS qualified, Advanced National Certificate in Equine Business Management, Metropolitan Police Mounted Branch Trainer

Experience: U.A.E.:  Two years yard manager/instructor of Asaafinat Equestrain Services Horse Ridng School.  Four years endurance experience, crewing, riding and training.  London, U.K.: Six years traning police horses for the Metropolitan Police.  South Africa: Two years as stable manager/instructor at large equestrian centre near Johannesburg.

Most memorable achievement: Training three year old horses up to the standard required and then seeing them on TV at football matches and riots performing their duties superbly.

Hardest achievement: Riding in Endurance, it is one of the hardest equine sports as it requires the rider (not just the horse) to have amazing fitness and above all self-determination. 

Future goals: To educate as many people as possible about horse care, handling and riding.  To produce horse people not passengers. 

Name: Nikki West

Nationality: British

Number of years in U.A.E.: 1 ½

Qualifications: BHS qualified; Advanced National Certificate in Equine Business Management; training and riding with British dressage judge,  Canadian classical dressage trainer and member of the  T.T.T., an instructor training charity in England.

Experience: U.A.E. teaching and riding at Asaafinat – my first foray into endurance riding!  U.K. and Isle of Man – working in and managing riding schools, livery and dressage yards for roughly ten years.

Most memorable achievement: My first completion of 40km endurance qualifier and surviving my first 80km qualifier! Any time one of my pupils does well at an event.

Hardest achievement: Has to be the endurance – it is like no other equestrian discipline I have ever done and takes guts and determination.

Future goals: To help and encourage people to ride and care for horses, to bring out the best in both them and their horse in whatever level of riding they chose and enjoy. To train a horse able to complete a 120km race, hopefully with me aboard!