Jayden Brown to Move to Great Britain in Preparation of Herning and Paris

Dressage

Australia

Australian Grand Prix rider Jayden Brown is going all and relocating to Great Britain to ensure optimal preparation and team selection possibilities in the lead-up to the 2022 World Dressage Championships and 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

Willinga Park

Brown is the head rider at the state of the art equestrian facility Willinga Park in Bawley Point, owned by Australian business mogul Terrance "Terry" Snow. The horse facility, rumoured to have cost more than $100 million AUD, caters to all disciplines and breeds (stock horses) and recently expanded to include show jumping and eventing. Snow made his fortune as a commercial property developer and owner of Canberra airport.

Willinga Park came into the spotlight of dressage in 2017 when Snow hired Brett Parbery to head his operations there and bought some expensive horses in Europe (Fusion de Hus, Theodore, Spot On, amongst others) to secure Parberry's future. In the autumn of 2019 Parbery broke his femur and his time out of the saddle tumbled into a big change in staff at the property. Brown was brought in and in the end all ties were Parbery were severed.

Jayden Brown

Jayden Brown made headlines when he represented Australia at the 2008 Young Rider World Cup Final on Widelo and at the 2013 World Young Horse Championships on San Andreas. Aboard Furst Friedrich he made his CDI break through at small and big tour level between 2012 and 2016.

In June 2017 Brown moved to Great Britain to work as head rider at Emma Blundell's Mount St John in Felixkirk, but returned to Australia at the beginning of 2019. He won silver and gold at the 2019 Australian Young Horse Championships. In January 2020 he was began working as head rider at Willinga Park.

Herning and Paris

Brown recently recommended himself to Australia's selectors with two Grand Prix horses that scored MERs for World Championship team consideration: Jenny Gerhke's 12-year old Westfalian gelding Senator Nymphenburg (by Sternberg x Mon Cheri) and Terry Snow's 12-year old Hanoverian Sky Diamond (by Sir Donnerhall x Don Schufro).

To maximize his chances for selection for the 2022 World Championships in Herning and potential Paris Olympic team selection, Snow has agreed to send Brown to Great Britain for a two-year period.

Gloucestershire

Jayden will locate himself in Gloucestershire, but is not yet willing to reveal the name of the trainer he's going to be working with.

"it’s very exciting. I’m glad to be coming back (to Europe) and this time with a really fun and supportive team," Brown told Eurodressage. "I will be renting stables and taking my own grooms so that I can do what suits each of the horses best. Although all of my horses are European bred, they have grown quite used to the Australian lifestyle, so i hope we can keep a little bit of that for them."

Jayden will be taking his FEI level trained horses to Europe and plans on producing them here with Herning and Paris as target.

"Paris is definitely the goal," said the 33-year old rider. "It will be exciting to bring the younger horses into Grand Prix with the best help I can get my hands on. I have two fantastic grooms, Madeline Leeden and Lillie Connelly, who look after the horses here. They’ll be joining us on their first trip to experience the horse world in the UK and Europe."