Paying to play in show jumping and being paid to play in endurance have much in common. Both enterprises pivot around fabulously wealthy patron-riders.

It can’t be a total coincidence. Chris Bartle starts training the Brits and at Strzegom in Poland they win their first European eventing team gold in eight years. Chris Bartle stops training the Germans, and they don’t wholly dominate the Europeans for the first time since goodness knows when. Well, it is not quite as […]

Not allowing thousands of international riders to vote is morally wrong and is hardly compatible with the oft-stated aim of growing horse sport worldwide.

Forgery: What is worse, the imagination applied to forgery in international endurance or the fact that the FEI seems resigned to it?

After Scott Brash’s disqualification at a Global Champions League event for alleged blood, some have called on the FEI to change their rules.

Are we seeing more and more doping cases related to accidental contamination? The FEI Tribunal’s workload is enormous. Right now, it has the longest pending case list I can ever recall. There are 40 outstanding cases, only a tiny handful going back much beyond a year, and on the face of it an unprecedented number […]

This world class program draws a lot of its money from the UK National Lottery, launched in 1994, but has it lost its lustre? Find out.

An ERQI in show jumping is long overdue. This was made evident after a Facebook video from an Austrian show was posted now has over a million views.

After 48 hours of political turmoil in the UK it was comforting to learn that at least one thing is set to enjoy a period of stability. I refer to confirmation that equestrianism is in the Olympic Games until at least 2024. The quota of 200 horses also remains for Tokyo 2020 – a major […]

Not much seems to have changed in endurance, but the officialdom appears less uncomfortable about naming the problem countries.