The Heritage Arabian Racing Club (HARC) announced the European HARC Championship which will take place in Ghlin, Belgium on 30th October 2017. HARC promotes the use of traditional Arabian bloodlines for racing. For this reason, certain horses and their offspring are excluded from HARC races. There a growing force of Heritage horses, the best will come together at the end of the month to demonstrate the promising future of HARC. For the first time ever the Championship will have participation from Italy, Iran and Romania joining with Russia, Sweden, Belgium and the UK, totaling 12 runners to date for a purse of Euros 20,000. KSA’s Arabian Horse Organisation (AHO) is also kindly offering the trophies for the Nations Cup. Supplementary entries are still open to any HARC horses wishing to join.
The runner’s list so far:
| Name of the horse | Owner | Trainer | |
| CEYLON (RU) | BUKHTOYAROV Valentin (RU) | PODKUYKO Alexander (RU) | 1 |
| DEMONA (RO) | FILLET Guillaume (FR) | VAN DEN TROOST Toon (BE) | 2 |
| GANJ BEIK (IR) | ARDAKANI Mohammad Reza G (IR) | MURPHY Hugh George (GB) | 3 |
| GIDON (RU) | SAMAVOLOV STUD (RU) | AVRAMENKO Dmitri (RU) | 4 |
| IANUA BOSANA (IT) | ORIGGI Angela (IT) | PICCHI Andrea (IT) | 5 |
| IBIS BOSANA (IT) | ORIGGI Angela (IT) | PICCHI Andrea (IT) | 6 |
| KALLISTA (GB) | ZAYIN ARABIAN STUD (GB) | HAMMERSLEY Peter (GB) | 7 |
| MR MAXIMUS (SE) | ABERG Johanna (SE) | ABERG Gert-Ake (SE) | 8 |
| PAMILLS LIPSE (SE) | HAGMAN-ERIKSON Maria (SE) | HAGMAN-ERIKSON Maria (GB) | 9 |
| RM ESTELLE (SE) | RAMONIA Gard (SE) | ABERG Gert-Ake (GB) | 10 |
| SAKMAGOM TERSK (RU) | TERSK STUD (RU) | AVRAMENKO Dmitri (RU) | 11 |
| TESSA (RO) | FILLET Guillaume (FR) | VAN DEN TROOST Toon (BE) | 12 |
