The Swiss Federation asked me to share their official statement of today regarding Endurance-Gate with my readers, and I have obliged by posting it over on my other blog Low-Down. Click here to go to the Swiss statement
I received an email from Claude Nordmann at the Swiss Federation this morning, with a press release attached and a request that I share it with readers. As Pippa’s guest blog of today has revealed, things have gone from bad to worse to insanely awful this past week. At least the Swiss and Dutch federations […]
This morning in an email conversation with a colleague I referred to something the FEI was potentially going to do as crazy. I stopped just short of using one of my favourite vulgarisms to add colour to that adjective – chiroptera feces – and then my colleague replied to me with that exact phrase. Our […]
This week, two stories came my way that just begged to be put together in a post. They have much in common, both being about Welly World and about lawsuits (two things which go together like cookies and cream). Here is where they differ: one is fictional, and the other is true. Your job today […]
This is not an endurance story. It’s a story of cheating and corruption. And it’s far from over. The characters include what we could now consider ‘the usual suspects’: 1. The Maktoum family, in the form of Sheikh Hamdan, Sheikh Mohammed’s second son (one of Sheikh M’s 23 offspring). The son of Sheikh M’s senior […]
In an unprecedented act of innovation, Equine Canada has announced this morning a proposal to suspend the hunt for a new CEO. Instead, the considerable resources of hiring, training, retaining and firing a Chief Executive will be redirected to the creation of a brand new department, called the Crisis Department. This new addition to EC’s […]
Last week I interviewed Canadian Show Jumping Team chef Mark Laskin (look for the interview in the May issue of Horse Sport). He’s the one who filled the very large shoes Torchy Millar left behind after London. Mark talked about the very gently-sloped, two-year-long hand-over of the reins from Torchy to him. He commended Jump […]
I hope everyone caught the results and photos that were posted on the Horse-Canada News page during the CHI Al Shaqab during the show last week. In the final Grand Prix, worth 650,000 euros, the top three placings were held by Ludger Beerbaum of Germany with Chiara 222, and Belgian riders Gregory Wathelet with Sea […]
The above ten photos were taken at two FEI Endurance races in 2009, both in the UAE. One of them was the President of the UAE Cup race, the other was not identified to me by the very civic minded photographer who agreed to allow me to publish this irrefutable evidence of what Endurance races […]
This post has nothing at all to do with horses, but Qatar is such an overwhelming place and there is certainly a lot of other cool stuff to talk about. I promise there will be horses next time. Tuesday morning we were taken to a falcon farm about an hour from Doha (hunting with falcons […]
