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The Penta Grand (Equestrian World Championship, Tent Pegging)

In 2013, the championship is being organized during March 11 to 24, 2013. The championship kicks off on 11’th March at Haryana Police Recruit Training Center, Bhondsi, Gurgaon with ~50 Indian National Teams competing for NEC (National Equestrian Championship). The Penta Grand will feature Equestrian World Championship from 20-24 March at Tau Devi Lal Stadium, Gurgaon where ~18 international teams are slated to participate. In 2012, The Penta Grand was organized in Ingraham Sports Stadium, Ghaziabad, which drew over 15,000 spectators on a daily basis for a 11-day extravaganza. In 2010, The Penta Grand was organized in Noida Sports Stadium, Sec 21 A, where almost 10,000 – 15,000 people came in to watch the spectacular series of events on a daily basis for a 12-day period.

The Penta Grand is owned jointly by Equiwings Sports & Events Pvt. Ltd. and the Equestrian Federation of India (EFI). Adventure and marketing partner for the event is vXplor Adventures which has launched The Great Adventure Fest 2013 on the same dates to give a wider gamut of adventure offerings to the audience of The Penta Grand. Penta Grand is the largest and the only equestrian competition in India organized for public viewing and draws large crowds and eminent personalities from across the country.

Format of Event

Overall, this event will include the five individual events:

1.	World Equestrian Tent Pegging Championship 2.	Asian Equestrian Tent Pegging Championship 3.	National Equestrian Tent Pegging Championship 4.	The Great Gurgaon Horse Show 5.	National Awards – Horse Sports

Primary Event – Tent Pegging

The main sport at The Penta Grand is the Tent Pegging Championship. Tent pegging is a cavalry sport that is one of only ten equestrian disciplines officially recognized by the International Equestrian Federation. This term can have dual connotations – it may refer to the specific game, which has a mounted horseman riding at a gallop and using a sword or a lance to pierce, pick up, and carry away a small ground target (a symbolic tent peg) or a series of small ground targets. It can also refer to the entire class of mounted cavalry games involving edged weapons on horseback, for which the term Equestrian Skill-at-Arms is also used.

The Tent Pegging Championship at The Penta Grand will involve the following eight disciplines:

1.      Indian File, 2.      Team tent pegging- Lance 3.      Rings and Pegs, 4.      Individual Tent Pegging 5.      Team Tent Pegging - Sword, 6.      Lemon and Peg 7.      Individual Tent Pegging Lance 8.      Paired Tent Pegging

Participating Countries

Countries participating in the World Championship include Australia, the UK, Pakistan, Iraq, Sudan, Egypt, Kazakasthan, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Canada, Qatar, Jordan, Oman, the USA, India, Sweden, Lebanon, and Germany.

Teams from the National Circuit

The following Indian teams will take part in the National Championship: 1.	BSF 2.	ASC Northern Command 3.	ASC Bareilly 4.	ASC Bangalore 5.	ASC Gaya 6.	Haryana Police 7.	U.P. Police 8.	Punjab Police 9.	Punjab Police Phillaur 10.	President's Body Guard (PBG) 11.	Gujarat Police 12.	Bihar Police 13.	U.P. Equestrian Team 14.	Rajasthan Equestrian Team 15.	61st Cavalry Jaipur 16.	61st Cavalry Delhi 17.	Army Polo and Riding Club 18.	Aligarh Muslim University 19.	Amity University 20.	Jindals 21.	Delhi Police 22.	ITBP (Indo-Tibetan Border Police) 23.	Navy 24.	Air Force 25.	CRPF 26.	Assam Rifles 27.	RVC Saharanpur 28.	RVC Meerut 29.	Punjab Public School, Nabha 30.	Kirpal Sagar Academy 31.	DPS, Aligarh 32.	DPS, Noida 33.	DPS, Allahabad 34.	Embassy Riding Club, Bangalore 35.	Genesis Global School, Noida 36.	Mayoor School, Noida 37.	Greater Valley School 38.	Ramesh School 39.	Equestrian Federation of Maharashtra 40.	Equestrian Federation of Haryana 41.	Equestrian Federation of Assam 42.	Equestrian Federation of Madhya Pradesh 43.	Equestrian Federation of West Bengal 44.	Equestrian Federation of Punjab 45.	Equestrian Federation of Chandigarh 46.	Equestrian Federation of Andhra Pradesh 47.	Equestrian Federation of Bihar 48.	Other Private Teams 49.	Corporate Teams 50.	Individual Participants 51.	Equiwings Team