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Mauritius started vaulting about 10 yrs ago in a very small and amateur way, with little help and assistance from outside.

Like South Africa, ideal horses are not easily available in Mauritius. Most of the practice takes place on thoroughbreds or small ponies. Despite the lack of ideal horses, Mauritius has twenty vaulters at two different clubs. The 2nd club is about to open a new section and in a few months, a third club is planned.
Hopefully this will be the way to start competitions between the clubs.

Florian, Claire, Victoria, Celine, Stephanie and Fantasy

Inter Africa Cup - Johannesburg - April 2007

Mauritian team arrived to SA

Claire, Celine, Victoria, Florian & Stephanie

Mauritian team with Fantasy and SA coach Agata

Second place for team from Mauritius
Florian Jauffret, Claire De Ravel, Celine Bourgault, Victoria Seesaha
Chef D'Equipe - Stephanie Jauffret

SEMINAR
20 - 25 FEBRUARY 2008

The Mauritian Equestrian Federation invited Barbie and Jasyn Gertenbach to run a vaulting clinic in Mauritius. Accordingly, they spent four days in Mauritius between 19 and 25 February, running a combination of vaulting, and judging clinics and finishing with a competition.

Mauritius has three established vaulting clubs, and a fourth has just been started by Stephanie Bax, who has been to SA many times with the Mauritian Jumping and Dressage teams. These clubs worked together for the clinic, so the three mornings of the clinic were spent working on judging and coaching issues with all the coaches and a number of vaulting officials. These sessions were hosted at Club Hippique in Curepipe. These sessions included presentations of rules and theories, as well as practical sessions where Jasyn demonstrated movements on the horse or barrel

In the afternoons the clinic did the rounds of the three clubs — Club Hippique, Club du Nord and Le Ranche — and Barbie and Jasyn worked with the vaulters on horses and barrels. The weather was not always co-operative: the eight vaulters at Le Ranche had good weather and the seven vaulters at Club du Nord escaped with a short storm, but it rained throughout Club Hippique’s afternoon session. At the end of it the longeur, instructors, horse and six vaulters were all thoroughly soaked, but the vaulters’ enthusiasm was so great that the session went on until it was dark as well as wet!

Barbie and Jasyn’s final day was spent at a vaulting E-grade competition run at Le Ranche. Barbie judged, with Stephanie Bax scribing, while Jasyn assisted the vaulters with warm-up instruction and legging up. This compeition was not only an opportunity for vaulters to put into practice what they had learned during the clinic, but was also the selection show for the Mauritian teams for the Inter-Africa Cup.

The top four places went to the members of the 2007 team, which came second to SA only by a very narrow margin. These vaulters were very well prepared last year by Stephanie Jauffret, who coaches at Club Hippique. Vaulting was one of the disciplines that Stephanie (who is also a Prix St Georges dressage rider) qualified to coach when trained as instructor in France. She has been coaching vaulting in Mauritius for 10 years, but it was only when Sabrina Bathfield, one of the coaches at Le Ranche, met Barbie at on Jerry Mullins’ FEI coaches’ course in SA in 2007 that each country became aware that the other vaulted. Since then, with participation in the Inter-Africa Cup and through courses such as this one, Mauritian vaulting has begun to grow. (Now that the FEI has appointed Barbie development officer for vaulting in Group IX, it is hoped that countries will not find themselves attempting to develop vaulting in isolation.)
In addition to Stephanie, Mauritius now boasts four vaulting coaches (all of whom attended the clinic): Isabelle Labat at Club du Nord, Sabrina Bathfield and Michel (Costa) Pomeray at Le Ranche, and Stephanie Bax at La Louisa. Each of the established clubs has already trained a horse to begin work at the canter.

Enter your text here...Barbie and Jasyn found the enthusiasm of the vaulters and the enthusiasm and dedication of the coaches in Mauritius very encouraging. In addition to coaching and judging vaulting, and helping to train coaches, Stephanie Jauffret is an excellent longeur; she is also a member of a very active, knowledgeable and organised National Committee, together with Clothilde Jauffret (President) and Kim Gueho.

If Mauritian vaulting continues to display the enthusiasm and commitment that we have seen over the past 18 months, they will soon be a force to be reckoned with in Group IX and soon in world vaulting.

Piczo