Background
Jaco Fourie started his riding career in the family business of his father and 2 brothers at the age of 4, and was tutored and mentored by many riding professionals to young adulthood.
Jaco Fourie started his riding career in the family business of his father and 2 brothers at the age of 4, and was tutored and mentored by many riding professionals to young adulthood.
He lives near Kathu, South Africa in the Northern Cape, on a Kalahari farm. He appeared on the cover of the May 2007 edition of the Société Anonyme Horseman Magazine. The couple own & manage Areion Warmblood & Dressage Academy.
He had training from bereiters and instructors from the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, the Société Anonyme Lipizzaner Centre, Natalie Hobday and Jonny Hilberath (GER).
Fourie has represented his home-country, South Africa in the Equestrian Tri-Nations Competition on two occasions in 2007 and 2008 in Hawke"s Bay, New Zealand. He is the leading South African rider in the South African National Equestrian Federation"s dressage rankings.
He worked full-time as stud manager for CALLAHO Warmblood Sport, a South African based horse breeding stud farm, who is also a major sponsor of international riders, but has since moved onto his own property where he owns & manages Areion Warmblood & Dressage Academy. His first pony was a crossbred Welsh pony named Prins.
In dressage, Fourie rode CALLAHO"s Foreign Joy, CALLAHO"s Granulit, CALLAHO"s Rosengirl, CALLAHO"s Benicio and AREION"s Deja Vu to National honours.
However, he had various other successes with horses FD Ref"s Asterix, Etherow Impasse, Brandenburg Super C, Alzu Catapault, Kehilan Shaheer, Orly and Kingsdale Kildaire amongst others