Hi guys

Sarah and Tippy here:

The Alltech Paint the Horse Competition needs you to well, paint a horse!

This is an urgent call to all you artists out there. Horse health experts Alltech, in association with Stamford Endowed Schools and the British Equestrian Federation want you to paint a horse! No, not a real horse, a template of a horse!

The competition is open to all UK school pupils aged between 6 and 18. Alltech’s Paint the Horse Competition aims to support Team GBR’s attendance at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games which takes place in Kentucky in 2010. The scheme is also supporting Riding for the Disabled.

Entrants must create an original design using a template on the entry form. Each of the four category winners will receive a framed print of their design signed by a Team GBR member of their choice and will also be invited to paint their design on a scaled model horse at the Alltech FEI European Jumping and Dressage Championships August 25th-30, 2009 which will also be showcased at The Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials on September 5, 2009.

One overall national winner will be selected to have their design professionally painted onto a life-size model horse which will be paraded at the Olympia London International Horse Show. The national and category winners will all receive hospitality tickets for the Olympia London International Horse Show December 21, 2009. Now that sounds like a challenge! Get painting people.

The closing date for entries is July 5, 2009. Download your entry form at
<http://www.ses.lincs.sch.uk/foundation> under the ‘projects’ tab.