The Canadian Eventing Team tackled a challenging cross country course on August 30 to move up to seventh place at the 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ in Normandy, FRA. Team Canada will go forward into the final show jumping phase on August 31 on a score of 324 penalties after admirable performances over a challenging […]
For the second day in a row, Canada’s Lauren Barwick had a podium finish for her Freestyle Test during the last day of para-dressage competition on Friday, August 29, at the 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ in Normandy, FRA. Barwick of Aldergrove, BC, earned the silver medal riding Equine Canada’s 13-year-old Oldenburg mare, Off to […]
The Canadian Eventing Team wrapped up the dressage phase on August 29 and is holding seventh place heading into cross country at the 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ in Normandy, France. The two-day dressage phase saw a record of 91 horses representing 27 nations over two days at the incredible Le Pin National Stud […]
The Canadian Eventing Team made their 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games debut in dressage on August 28 at the renowned Le Pin National Stud venue in the Ornes region of France. The start list for dressage featured a total of 91 horses from 27 different nations, which set a new record for Eventing attendance […]
Canada’s Lauren Barwick finished on the podium today in the bronze medal position and earned Canada’s first medal of the Games following her Individual Championship Test during the fourth day of para-dressage competition on Thursday, August 28, at the 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ in Normandy, FRA. Riding Equine Canada’s 13-year-old Oldenburg mare, Off to […]
Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum (UAE) and the outstanding mare Yamamah, means “little dove” in Arabic, led from the start to finish to win the individual gold medal at a challenging Endurance competition in Sartilly at the 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ to take over the world title from his father, Sheikh Mohammed. […]
It was a dramatic day at the Para-Equestrian Dressage competition at the 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ in Normandy (FRA), as a début rider took Grade II gold, and Great Britain, The Netherlands and Germany booked the first three team spots on offer for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. The Netherlands’ Rixt van der […]
Some 23 Reining horse-and-rider combinations came back to the Parc des Expositions in Caen today for the second individual qualifying competition. The top 15 pairs after the first individual qualifier had already earned their ticket to the Final which will be held on Saturday, 30 August, at 20.00 CEST. Second last to go, Troy Heikes, […]
William Fox-Pitt (GBR) has given the British team a massive morale boost after the first day of the Eventing competition at the 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ in Normandy, where the Dressage phase is taking place below the chateau at Haras du Pin deep in the Normandy countryside. Fox-Pitt and the biddable stallion Chilli […]
UPDATE: Costa Rican rider Claudia Romero Chacon, who was injured in an accident 13.6 kilometres into the first loop of the Endurance course at Sartilly (FRA) this morning, has undergone surgery for fractures and internal injuries. She is in a serious but stable condition. Sadly her horse was killed instantly in the incident. There were two […]
