Rich Fellers is sending his Worldcup winning Flexible (Cruising x Safari) into retirement. Eventhough the already 21 year old stallion is still in top form, it is time to call it a day. “I don’t think of myself as being a very emotional person, but I think I was very emotional about this; it was really difficult for me. I wanted to keep going with him and show him some more this year. I know he has more in him. Even though he looks and feels so great, it’s important not to deny the effects of aging,” Fellers told Noelle Floyd. The Irish sports horse stallion has had an amazing career with USA rider Rich Fellers. After jumping to to many US World Cup victories in 2012 with Fellers the pair went on the Den Bosch to claim the Rolex FEI World Cup Jumping Final. And that was the start of more then a century long top international competitions for the two. Their rise to fame was quickly followed by a selection for the USA team at the London 2012 Olympic games were they finished in eigth place during the individual competition. Even then at age of 16 the world was amazed with the fitness of the stallion. But the top jumper continued to amaze for four more seasons. Feller and Flexible won an astounding 34 international FEI competitions together with the most recent one being the CSI2* HITS Welcome Stake in November of 2016. For this season the two will keep on showing until may, during the 100,000 Grand Prix of Del Mar at the Del Mar National Horse Show on May 6 they will jump for the last time.
Rich Fellers is sending his Worldcup winning Flexible (Cruising x Safari) into retirement. Eventhough the already 21 year old stallion is still in top form, it is time to call it a day. “I don’t think of myself as being a very emotional person, but I think I was very emotional about this; it was really difficult for me. I wanted to keep going with him and show him some more this year. I know he has more in him. Even though he looks and feels so great, it’s important not to deny the effects of aging,” Fellers told Noelle Floyd. The Irish sports horse stallion has had an amazing career with USA rider Rich Fellers. After jumping to to many US World Cup victories in 2012 with Fellers the pair went on the Den Bosch to claim the Rolex FEI World Cup Jumping Final. And that was the start of more then a century long top international competitions for the two. Their rise to fame was quickly followed by a selection for the USA team at the London 2012 Olympic games were they finished in eigth place during the individual competition. Even then at age of 16 the world was amazed with the fitness of the stallion. But the top jumper continued to amaze for four more seasons. Feller and Flexible won an astounding 34 international FEI competitions together with the most recent one being the CSI2* HITS Welcome Stake in November of 2016. For this season the two will keep on showing until may, during the 100,000 Grand Prix of Del Mar at the Del Mar National Horse Show on May 6 they will jump for the last time.