Looking forward to the 2012 competition season, reigning Olympic champion Eric Lamaze has added several new horses to his show jumping stable following the tragic loss of his 2008 Olympic gold and team silver medal partner, Hickstead, in November.   Lamaze, 43, of Schomberg, ON, has acquired seven new horses.  Five were registered as Canadian-owned […]

Jump Canada has announced the list of declared candidates in consideration for the Canadian Show Jumping Team at the 2012 London Olympic Games. The show jumping team and individual competition will take place August 4–9 in Greenwich Park, London, ENG. In alphabetical order, the riders and horses are: Rider                                               Hometown                    Horse                                                             Owner John Anderson                           Calgary, […]

Twenty one nations are celebrating their Olympic qualification January 9th, which marks the 200-day countdown to London 2012 and 100 years of equestrian sport in the Olympic movement.   Eleven countries have now secured the opportunity to join the nine nations already qualified at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ 2010 in Kentucky and hosts […]

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has secured the final qualifying slot for the Jumping competition at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Saudi Arabia earned its qualification on the basis of the team’s combined classification among the FEI Olympic Group F teams – Africa and the Middle East – at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ […]

Australia and New Zealand have qualified for the team Dressage competition at the London 2012 Olympic Games as a result of their performance at the two-part regional qualifier held in Sydney (AUS) on 28 October and in Ermelo (NED) today, 2 November.   Three teams – Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa – were in […]

The last Dressage team qualifying event for the London 2012 Olympic Games will begin this Friday, October 28. The qualifier, which will be run at two separate venues, is open to teams from the FEI Olympic Groups F (Africa and Middle East) and G (South East Asia and Oceania).   Due to quarantine restrictions, the […]

October 1, 2011, marks 300 days to go to the 2012 London Olympic Games where equestrian sport will celebrate its centenary on the Olympic Programme.   So far, teams and individual riders from 18 nations have qualified to compete in the three Olympic equestrian disciplines of Jumping, Dressage and Eventing.   Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, […]

The Ground Juries for Dressage at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and the Reem Acra FEI World Cup™ Final 2012 have been announced following blind draws at the FEI’s headquarters in Lausanne (SUI) today (23 September). Leif Törnblad (DEN), Maribel Alonso (MEX), Jean-Michel Roudier (FRA), Gary Rockwell (USA), Wim Ernes (NED) and Evi […]

Japan has secured qualification for the Olympic Eventing next year following the London 2012 Eventing Team Qualifier for Asia-Pacific nations which took place at the Fidelity Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials (GBR) from  September 8-11. New Zealand, led by Clarke Johnstone, finished first in the team competition, but they are already qualified for London 2012 […]

France and Sweden qualified for the London 2012 Olympic Games as a result of their placings in the HSBC FEI European Eventing Championships 2011 team competition. France finished in silver medal position on a score of 151.10 and Sweden placed fourth (199.20). Germany, the leading nation at the Championships, had already achieved Olympic qualification. Bronze […]