Kuerten’s absence from meeting merely ‘a coincidence’

ONE of the riders central to this year’s show jumping dispute over selection for Nations Cup teams is unable to attend a meeting set to kick-start a review of the contentious process.

Jessica Kuerten will be en-route to the US, where she is competing with the world’s top 25 riders in the $1m (€0.83m) Las Vegas World Invitational, meaning she will miss the October 10 meeting at Dublin Airport.

Yesterday she said it would be wrong to read anything into the fact the meeting clashed with her trip, saying it was “a coincidence.”