Four riders qualify for show jumping at Asian Games

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Four Indian riders on Tuesday qualified for show jumping equestrian event of next year's Asian Games after winning the first selection trials here.

Pranay Khare, Kaevaan Setalvad, Zahan Setalvad and Yashaan Khambatta are the four riders and they will be accompanied by five horses - Vanilla Sky, Alasdair, Quintus Z, Lorenzo and El Capitan - in the 2022 Asian Games scheduled to be held in Hangzhou, China from September 10-25.

Setalvad brothers - Kaevaan and Zahan - had represented India at the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia. "A total of four riders and five horses have qualified," Equestrian Federation of India (EFI) said in a release.

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