PERSONAL DATA EQUESTRIAN ACHIEVEMENTS SOME ARTICLES AND PUBLICATION CAREER GOALS SPORT REQUIREMENTS SPONSER GOALS AND OBJECTIVES VIDEO GALLERY X PERSONAL DATA Name : Nayel Nassar Nationality : Egyptian Birthdate : January 21, 1991 Education : BA – Economics, Stanford University, CA Languages : Arabic, English, French, and German Number of years in the Show Jumping Sport: 17 years. Horses Owenership; Current String of Show Jumping Horses: - Raging Bull Vangelis S: Belgian Warmblood Stallion, 15 years old - Lordan: Hannovarian Gelding, 9 years old - Dunsoghly Junior: Irish Gelding, 11 years old - Baraka: Oldenburger gelding, 6 years old (Lordan’s brother) - Alva: Holsteiner Warmblood mare, 5 years old - Zayn: Holsteiner gelding, 4 years old Young Horses: - Ophelio: 3 year old gelding, Hannovarian, Germany - Cordina Z: 2 year old mare, Zangersheiden,Germany - Layaly: 3 year old mare, Holsteiner, Germany HOME X PERSONAL DATA - Mada: 2 year old mare, Holsteiner, Germany - Menna: 1 year old mare, Zangersheiden, Germany - Hedaya: 1 year old mare, Westphalian, Germany Brood Mares: - La Paloma: Holsteiner, Germany - Amazon: Hungarian, Hungary - Ploy R: Westphalian, Germany Coaches; - Self: Current and for most of the last two years except during the World Cup Final in Sweden, April, 2013 - Piet Raijmakers: Holland - Laura Kraut: USA - Jos Lansink: Belgium - Jorg Naeve: Germany - Markus Beerbaum: Germany - Noaf Al-Eassa: Kuwait HOME X EQUESTRIAN ACHIEVEMENTS Current Longines Ranking: 95 (1st Egyptian, 4th Arab) Qualified for World Cup Final 2013 by winning U.S.A. West Coast League Currently leading World Cup West Coast League 2013-2014 Qualified for WEG 2014 as individual Grand Prix Results 2013: 1st $1 million Saugerties Zoetis Grand Prix, NY 1st CSI 2*W Del Mar, CA 2nd CSI 2*W GP at Thunderbird, Langley, Canada 2nd CSI 2*W GP at Thunderbird, Langley, Canada 1st/3rd CSI 2*W Thermal week 4, CA 2nd CSI 2*W Thermal week 3, CA 5th CSI 5* Gothenburg Trophy at WC final, Sweden 2nd CSI 5* Speed Final, Gothenburg, Sweden 3rd CSI 5* Agria Prix at WC Final, Gothenburg, Sweden 2nd CSI 2* GP of Drammen, Norway 2nd CSI 3* GP of Outdoor Gelderland, Holland 2nd CSI 3* GP of Ommen, Holland 6th CSI 3* GP of Bonheiden, Belgium HOME X EQUESTRIAN ACHIEVEMENTS Grand Prix Results 2012: 1st CSI 2* Dianne Tidball Legacy GP, Thunderbird 3rd CSI 2*W Canaccord Genuity GP, Thunderbird 1st CSI 5* Progress Energy Cup, Spruce Meadows 1st CSI 2*W at LA International Horse Show 1st Welcome GP, Sacramento CA 3rd CSI 5* Pepsi Challenge, Spruce Meadows 1st Overall Artisan Farms Young riders series, WEF Florida 1st CSI2* GP of Abu Dhabi, UAE 5th CSI 5* TD Cup, Spruce Meadows HOME X SOME ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS Calm, Cool and Collected: Nayel Nassar's Breakout Winter Circuit … read more | web link Nassar like Nascar in the Grand Prix of Showpark … read more | web link Frequent Flier! Nayel Nassar and Lordan Win Zoetis $1 Million Dollar Grand Prix at HITS Saugerties … read more | web link Nael Nassar – Egypt’s Next Olympian … read more | web link ISSUU - Horse & Style Magazine April/May 2013 by Horse & Style Magazine … read more | web link HOME X SOME ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS Rapidly rising show jumping star a world traveller; A talented 22-yearold rider adds true international flavour to two full weeks of show jumping at Thunderbird Show Park … read more | web link STANFORD STUDENTS STORM TO THE TOP OF THE $50,000 LEGIS GRAND PRIX OF LOS ANGELES … read more | web link First Time Win for Nassar at Spruce Meadows … read more | web link Showjumping: Nassar bags top honours in Abu Dhabi … read more | web link ZOOM ON SAUGERTIES : NAYEL NASSAR PROVES UNBEATABLE DURINGTHE ZOETIS $ 1 MILLION DOLLAR GRAND PRIX … read more | web link HOME X ON THE COVER ARTICLES HOME X SOME ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS Calm, Cool and Collected: Nayel Nassar's Breakout Winter Circuit (…continue ) College Bound After Nassar graduated from the American School of Kuwait in 2009, he left his home country for America and the sunny beaches of California to pursue a degree in economics from Stanford. Nassar says his choice of school allowed him to keep riding. “I got lucky,” he says. “My brother had to stop riding when he went to USC (the University of Southern California) and couldn’t find a place to ride. Stanford has a stable.” During his freshman year, Nassar brought along one of his mares from Kuwait to help keep him in riding shape. But this past summer, Nassar sold all of his horses and rebuilt his stable from scratch. Then he took a quarter off from school to get to know his new mounts and compete in Europe before returning to Stanford in the winter. “I rode in the Middle East, did the Pan Arab Games, and I rode in Europe a little bit,” Nassar explains. “It was a great experience.” Nassar received a team silver medal and at those Pan Arab Games, one of the proudest accomplishments of his young career. “I had a time fault that kept me out of the jump-off for individual gold,” Nassar remembers. BACK HOME X SOME ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS Calm, Cool and Collected: Nayel Nassar's Breakout Winter Circuit (…continue ) Three is a Magic Number Nassar’s string of horses consists of three talented jumpers, all of which he has been showing for less than a year. His main horse is Raging Bull Vangelis S, a 14-year-old Belgian Warmblood that he purchased from Robert Smith, who rode the stallion to numerous wins, including the 2008 CSI 5* Nations Cup in Dublin, Ireland. Nassar acquired Vangelis this past July and rode him in his first Grand Prix just two short months later. “I bought him and took him straight to the show,” Nassar explains. “It went very quickly. We placed in our first three or four grand prixs together.”Those classes included the Sires of the World Grand Prix at the Young Horse Championships, the 3* Kiel Baltic Horse Show, a 3* Grand Prix in Denmark, and the Pan Arab Games. In the barn, Vangelis is known as a “food junkie,” notorious for ravenously diving for hay at a moment’s notice. Although Vangelis may be getting up there in age, Nassar is very happy with the way he is going. The stallion still has plenty of spunk. Second in line is Lordan, an eight-year-old Hanoverian gelding. Although Nassar purchased Lordan almost two years ago, he just began working with the horse this past summer due to a tendon injury that Nassar believes the gelding sustained in a trailer ride. Nassar brought Lordan back slowly and just began showing him seriously this winter. “He’s young, so he’s still pretty green and spooky,” Nassar says. “He likes to look around everywhere while on course. You have to stay on top of him.” BACK HOME X SOME ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS Calm, Cool and Collected: Nayel Nassar's Breakout Winter Circuit (…continue ) But Lordan showed no fear while tackling the challenging courses of the Artisan Farms Young Rider Grand Prix Series this circuit. The gelding led Nassar to the overall title, and he placed in his first 1.50 class in Week 12, jumping to 7th of 40 riders in the $32,000 Suncoast 1.50m Championship Jumper Classic. “It just shows how much potential he has,” Nassar says. Rounding out the group is Dunsoughly Junior, a 10-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding, who Nassar says is coming along slowly. The gelding can be a challenge to ride. “He’s straight like an arrow,” Nassar says, “but just really strong.” Nassar is considering selling Junior for a younger horse, but he has no plans to add to his stable without taking away. “Three’s a good number,” he says. “The plan is to have one horse to bring up, one Grand Prix horse, and hopefully a third horse that can take a little pressure off the grand prix horse.” Not Your Average Commute Nassar makes a six-hour commute each and every time he shows at the Winter Equestrian Festival. Three days of classes at Stanford precede either a Wednesday or Thursday night flight from California to Fort Lauderdale, FL, followed by a one-hour drive to Wellington. “It depends on whether I have to qualify for the Grand Prix,” Nassar explains. “If I need to ride in the qualifier, I’ll fly out Wednesday night, get here Thursday morning on the red eye, and compete Thursday afternoon.” Then it’s back to Stanford Sunday night, where he gets in around midnight. Nassar may be sleep deprived, but it’s impeded neither his schoolwork nor his riding. BACK HOME X SOME ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS Calm, Cool and Collected: Nayel Nassar's Breakout Winter Circuit (…continue ) “I’ve been doing it (school and riding) for a while,” Nassar says. “Even in high school I would travel a lot for the Arab League horse shows. I try to do as much work as I can while I’m there (at Stanford) and focus on riding while I’m here (in Wellington).” While Nassar is attending class in California, his groom of 10 years, Linda, rides his horses, keeping them fit and getting them the proper exercise. Occasionally, Nassar’s trainer, prominent show jumper Laura Kraut, will get on if his horses are in need of a tune-up. This is Nassar’s first year training with Kraut. Previously, he trained with Marcus Beerbaum and Jörg Naeve, a well-known horseman who sold Carlo 273 to Nick Skelton. Naeve recommended Kraut to Nassar when he realized he wouldn’t be able to make the trip from Europe to Wellington.